The following is a guest post submitted by Mo from Destination Sf. Do visit her blog after you read her fabulous Seitan recipes post.
I’ll admit it, I am a Seitan fiend. So when I recently stumbled upon a recipe for Barbecue Seitan Ribs on the Fatfree Vegan website, I was in heaven. The recipe is superb as is, but it’s also fantastic prepared with a few variations. Some minor improvisations below.
Seitan (flesh-free) Pulled Pork Sandwich
For a flesh-free Pulled Pork Sandwich, prepare the Seitan as described in the recipe, but before slathering on the barbecue sauce, slice the Seitan into toothpick-sized strips. Then add the sauce, stirring well to coat. Spread the mixture out in the same pan used for baking the seitan, and pop it back into the oven for about twenty minutes. Served on a kaiser roll or other tasty bread, this Seitan sandwich really cures my craving for barbecue.
Stir Fry Seitan Recipe
Another option is to again bake the Seitan as described, then cut it into roughly 1/2 inch-thick by 2-inch long strips and use it in stir fry recipes. For example, if you marinate the seitan strips in a soy sauce marinade and stir fry with broccoli and peppers…viola! Unbeef and Broccoli. Serve over brown rice, and you’ve got a quick, tasty dinner. A quick search on, say, VegWeb yields dozens of tasty marinade and sauce recipes that will work great with this seitan.
Seitan Stand Alone Recipe (Good For Seitan Melts)
If, however, you’re looking for an excellent stand alone seitan recipe, one that can be sliced and eaten as is, piled high on sandwiches (with melted cheese on top, of course), or served as a very tasty alternative to breakfast sausage? You can’t go wrong with the “Seitan and the Great Becoming” recipe. If you’ve never made Seitan at home before, this is an excellent place to start, as you essentially dump everything into a bowl and mix it together.
Happy cooking!
image via Fat Free Vegan Blog
The pulled pork sounds awesome. I buy the chicken and/or steak Morningstar Meal Starters for my stir fry and I think my family would revolt if I changed that. But the BBQ sounds great. I think I’ve purchased seitan before but never ended up using it. I have made tempeh rubens, which are delish, but never really knew what to do with the seitan. Now I have a starting point, so thank you!
Gotta admit, one of the hardest things I find about vegetarianism is my lifelong love of barbecue sauce and inability to find meat substitutes that it tastes good on….
So, I’ll just have to give this a try…..
wow… i’m definitely going to try this. Thanks!
Sounds pretty tasty! I’m always up for something new. I’ll have to give this a try!
veggie girl »
Hi, glad you stopped by. Have fun making experimenting with the recipes.
Green Home Hints »
Easier said than done. I tried to make tofu barbeque ribs on the GRILL, and needless to say it didn’t turn out so hot. I think the tofu was too wet, plus the grill was un-cooperative. I will have to give it another try, and see how it turns out.
Do let me know how the Seitan dish fairs for you.
YogaforCynics »
Hi, if you do try it, let me know how it goes. Do you cook with TOFU or any of the other meat subs?
mmmm… I’ll try this ASAP. I’ve just finished making a seitan dish for my family dinner and published pictures and the recipe, check it out: http://yonatan.posterous.com/seitanism
I also like seitan schnitzle. delicious.
I used to be really anti-veggie, for reasons now I can’t understand at all! Moved in with an ex and she refused to have meat in the house so I just seemed to slip into it too. Now I’d never go back, feel so much more healthy and don’t miss chomping burgers at all. This site’s great, thanks very much!
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Hi there! The link to the recipe and the video no longer works… can you please re-post? I’ve been looking for a good breakfast sausage seitan recipe, and your recipe (from what I can tell) looks like it has promise to be molded into that….Thanks!
Hi, Melody:
Which Seitan recipe? I clicked on both of the ones mentioned above and they both work for me. Try again. Let me know.