What do vegans eat instead of a Christmas roast? While others can eat turkey ,chicken or goose vegans have to leave the main dish of christmas because they are vegan .That is the simple solution for them .Like other christmas vegan meats ,seitan is the base of this roast .But we also use chickpeas and vegan seasoning to get the christmas flavor .We also cover the seitan dough with rice papers to have a flesh like cover in real meat .
Serve it with roasted glazed carrots and vegan gravy for christmas.
homemade seitan
You can make seitan with flour at home. To do this, wash the flour
in a mixing bowl until the water no longer turns white. you have to
renew the water every now and then. I do not do it myself because it is
time consuming for me. And now and then we eat seitan, because you can
basically wash the gluten at home yourself with flour.
How to Make Edible Rice Paper
A cup of rice flour
Water
Method
Add the rice flour to the bowl. Slowly add water and mix well, making sure the mixture is not lumpy. Add enough water till you get a smooth paste that is easy to pour over. Grease a pan and brush its bottom with the mixture and cook till it cooks .Remove from the pan carefully and repeat the process .
preparation time: 2 hours and 15 minutes
serves ; 5
Spice mix:
50g flakes of nutritional yeast ( yeast fried without oil until browned)
1 tbsp + ¼ tsp salt
½ tsp ginger powder minced garlic
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp ground black pepper
5 tsp mixed herbs1 tsp paprika or chili powder
2 tsp celery seeds or cumin2 tsp thyme or coriander
2 tsp + ¼ tsp minced garlic or powder
2 ¼ tsp minced onion or powder
¾ tsp parsley, dried or minced
1 bay leaf
½ tsp ground mustard seeds or paste
Seitan:
100 g chickpeas, cooked or chickpea powder
2 tbsp sesame paste or nut butter
1.5 l water
80 ml soy sauce
5 tbsp spice mix
950 g of gluten powder
2 rice papers ( homemade recipe is above)
for filling ( optional)
roasted cauliflower
marinate for above rice paper
2 tbsp of soy sauce
1 tbsp of honey or sugar
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tbsp cooking oil
First you do the spice mix. You simply take all the ingredients and mix them in a high-performance mixer until you have a powder or paste. You can now give this a closable glass. Use within a day if you use fresh ingredients .
Now we are going to prepare the seitan. Mix all moist ingredients together. Take all the ingredients except for the gluten powder. Blend in a mixer until it has a creamy consistency without lumps.
Now you mix in a mixing bowl, take it from my food processor and mix all the ingredients. Now knead with the kneading hook of a food processor or with hands for approx. 10 min. The dough should be shiny and stretchy and not stick to the bowl. The dough is still relatively moist. But that's what we want.
Now you can put the dough in a spherical shape and in a cheesecloth or in cling film that is heat-resistant.
If you want to fill the seitan, do it before you form a ball. To do this, divide the page into two parts. You both try to roll out and put the filling on one part and think the filling with the other part. Now put the round seitan in a cheese cloth as described above and knot the top. Now you can optionally wrap with aluminum foil or you can leave it.
Now take a sufficiently large steam pot, or take my pressure cooker with it and let it steam for about 1 hour.
Next, prepare the marinade for the rice paper. Simply mix all the ingredients together.
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and put the seitan on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Now take two rice papers and dip them one after the other in a bowl of water. The rice paper should now become soft. And you can put it around the seitan, this will be the skin later. Now spread it with the marinade and bake the seitan for about 40 minutes. I spread them twice every 10 minutes and let them fry until crispy for the last 20 minutes .
Serve with glazed roasted carrots and gravy .
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