Making VEGAN DELI MEAT is EASIER than you think

COME HANG OUT:

Recipe:

Ingredients:
2 C or 250g vital wheat gluten
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
2 T Plant Basic Ham, Chicken, or Beef plant based seasoning (optional)
2 C or 440g cool (below room temp) water

Steps:
1. Mix the dry ingredients: gluten, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and (optionally) the seasoning packet of your choice. Stir with your hand to combine.
2. Add water to the dry mix and stir with your hand to make a dough. Squeeze gently and knead 2-3 times to endure all the gluten flour and water is combined.
3. Wrap in foil (see video for more detailed instructions)
4. Steam for 1 hour. Roast should be 180F+ after the steam.
5. Let it cool to room temp slice up, and enjoy. Rest overnight if you prefer a more firm texture. See the video for more info on storage and uses.

Once you have the base recipe down, experiment with other dry herbs and spices or add color with 1 tsp browning liquid or ~5 drops of red food dye.

[Sarsaparillamann]

Easiest seitan recipe I’ve ever seen.

The wet dough prevents dried gluten clumps for extremely easy cleaning.

The quantity to effort ratio is huge. It literally takes 5 min to pour, season, mix, lightly knead, and wrap. No twisting, frying, simmering, etc. just steam for an hour.

Flavor of the base recipe (plus mushroom seasoning) was very mild but pleasant allowing for me to stir fry with sauce.

Texture is soft spongy and moist aka not dry. Very good protein to calorie ratio.

Overall 10/10 recipe and since this is gonna save me a ton on mock meats felt only right to give back.

[lindaallen]

I've tried to make seitan 4 or 5 times. Both VWG and WTF. It never came out right, until today. I gave this a try and it worked! Great texture and good flavor. I added vegan ham bullion powder. Next time I'll add more seasoning but this tastes pretty good! Thank you for making it so simple!

[areyoulooney]

“Avoid dirtying another dish.”

First time viewer, but with that statement I immediately respect him as a chef! Awesome video!

[twothirdsanexplosive]

Perfect. Thanks for getting this down to the bare minimum to make it faster and still squeezing in the small jokes. Also to your point about bulk -- a lot less plastic waste too.

[Golden-zyxb]

Just made this today, very impressed with the overall ease and product at the end. Thank you very much for the recipe and inspo!

[tamcon]

Liked the editing in this one, and congrats on the sponso! The base recipe is very much old skool, and your now signature seasoning upgrade is the one I'm gonna try first. Thanks for posting : )

[DjaAkh]

Just tried the basic recipe for the first time. Ridiculous short prep time, astonishing result. Great introduction especially with the comparison to not-so-great results. My meat production will be massive! Will change my name legally to Arby.

[nynkedegraaf]

Made it today, just plain. It's great. Looking forward to experiment with different flavours. This is truly great! Thank you!!

[michaelnicola]

Just cut into my first try on this recipe and I will not be buying Tofurky or Yves products again. I must admit that I too "played with the ingredients" a bit, we all have our favored taste profiles but I also added 2T of nutritional yeast, 2tsp MSG, 2T bratwurst spice, ⅓ cup garbanzo flour, 1 tsp Kitchen Bouquet, 1T liquid smoke, 1 T apple cider vinegar and 1T methyl cellulose. Sounds like a lot but it was a simple dump. Your process is really the star. I actually split it into two, and had them in the Instapot in less than 10 minutes. The texture and lack of sponginess was perfect and the taste, on this first try is amazing. Sorry for going on but really wanted to share this. I've tried (tedious & time consuming) seitan recipes before but none have come close to this pure, 100% success. Thanks again!!!!

[hollywebster]

Thank you for developing and posting this video. I'm definitely going stock my freezer with these slices for quick picnics, day trip lunches and similar things. Have you ever sliced this seitan with a very sharp, deeply serrated knife, like a bread knife? My mother would slice small pieces of leftover kinda dry meat with the bread knife and it made little pieces that could be bound together with cream cheese or mayo and eaten as a dip or spread. I haven't thought of this in years. Thank you for the culinary memory and inspiration to go play in the kitchen!

[socksaisillesofargoz]

quickly becoming my fave youtuber! love your stuff tysm for the videos!!!!

[Karen-bjlc]

This will save so much money! And what a cute cat!

[cydeYT]

This is also macro friendly, will definitely be making once I decide to buy vital wheat gluten

[pureplantgoodness]

Just made 2 versions of this, I added extra spice to one and herbs to the other.. Very easy and quick too prepare.. I will agree its defo better to steam.. I tried both.. Baked is a lot more chewy. Thanks for the fab recepie 😁👍🏼 x

[MayVeryWellBeep]

You can even skip the the onion powder and garlic powder if, like me, you are tragically allergic to all alliums. It'll be blander, but then everything is blander when you're allergic to every single allium, so that's that

[Whitelight]

Mix the seitan with nutritional yeast, cooked beans even any vegetables ( blended) and the seitan will not be tough and rubbery but perfect meaty texture and taste.

[michaelb]

Easily one of the top must-watch seitan videos on Youtube. Every contingency is addressed even for those of us who might not have a steamer, but do have an instant pot or neither! Think I'll give this one a try!

[Kikokrazyy]

Made this today. SO easy! It’s delicious too! Thank you!

[gibbro-jf]

I think i just found my seitan recipe. Thank you for sharing this!

[dereinzigwahreRichi]

You can add a can of cooked beans that you either mash with your hands or a fork to have some chunks left or run through your food processor. Gives good flavor and completes the amino acids.
I'm also going to try adding peanuts for the same reasons.