Do it yourself: information & tips
If you want to make your seitan yourself, you only have to invest some time. But your seitan is fresh and the meat substitute tastes just the way you like it. How much time you need depends on what you do yourself.
Making seitan - that's how you make the gluten flour yourself
Basically, you only need wheat gluten and water to make seitan. There are also spices to your taste.
- If you want to make your work a little easier, use purchased gluten flour. If you want to consistently do everything yourself, also make the gluten flour yourself.
- The advantage of homemade gluten flour is that it hardly costs anything, making the seitan unbeatably inexpensive. The disadvantage is that the process is relatively time-consuming and goes into the arms.
- To get the wheat gluten for your seitan, you only need wheat flour. The inexpensive wheat flour is enough because you wash out the flour anyway.
- First, knead a firm dough out of wheat flour and water. Then leave the finished dough in a bowl with water for about two hours.
- Before processing the dough further, replace the milky, cloudy water with fresh water. Then knead the dough well in the water.
- In the meantime, replace the water with fresh water every now and then. If you need a break in between, leave the dough in the water.
- Your gluten flour is ready as soon as you have largely rinsed out the starch. This means that you knead the dough until the water is no longer cloudy.
- As soon as the water remains crystal clear and the dough has a gummy consistency, you can start making your seitan.
Do it yourself - how it works
You can quickly prepare a tasty meal from seitan. If you produce the meat substitute in stock, the work of Seitan production is therefore worthwhile in two ways. The seitan slices can easily be packed individually in freezer bags and stored in the freezer, where the meat substitute lasts about ten weeks.
- Seitan only tastes good if you season it well. You have various options for this. One of them is to knead the gluten flour with a delicious, homemade vegetable broth.
- Alternatively, use water and later ensure the correct seasoning of the meat substitute.
- You need about 80 to 100 milliliters of water or vegetable broth to make 100 grams of seitan. Process the liquid and gluten flour into a firm dough.
- If you then shape the seitan dough into a rectangle, you can easily cut it into slices. The seitan slices are then cooked in a brew seasoned according to your taste. After a cooking time of about 30 minutes, your homemade meat substitute is ready.
- Tip: If your seitan is particularly firm to the bite, boil it in water. Before you put the seitan in the water, put the slices in freezer bags. To do this, squeeze the air out of the freezer bags, close it and let it cook for about two hours.
- If your seitan still needs the right seasoning, marinate it and put it in the fridge. Leave the seitan in the marinade for a day so that the meat substitute takes on the spicy taste.
- If you are still missing some great ideas for a homemade marinade, you may find a tasty suggestion in the next post.
- Finally, process the meat substitute the way you prefer to eat it. The seitan slices taste very delicious, for example, when fried in the pan.
Seitan is a popular meat substitute, but that does not necessarily mean that the meat substitute is healthy. We will answer the question of how healthy seitan is and whether meat replacement is the right food for celiac disease in the next post.