Okay, call me out. I made vegan orange chicken from gardien and threw some rice on it. I suppose I could have made some seitan to be more authentic.
6 points
Sure!
This dish
- put 1/2 white rice in rice cooker
- Buy mandarin orange crispy chick’n by gardein wherever such things are sold
- fry in orange chick’n in pan with generous amounts of olive oil (look up pan frying tuts on youtube if you don’t have much experience with this)
- put the chick’n, the sauce, and the rice in a bowl
- done
Or did you mean the seitan? Keep in mind, I’m a very vibes based cook.
Here is that recipe
- Add 1 cup vital wheat gluten, 1/4 cup flour, and 1 cup water to a bowl. Throw in a teaspoon of nutritional yeast and some smoke flavouring if you feel like it. Mix.
- once it’s all mixed together you should have a nice dough that sticks to itself. If theres still powder, add some water. If it’s too sticky, add some more flour.
- lay some flour on a table and begin massaging that dough. kneed it and PULL IT APART. Do that over and over to align the chains of proteins to get a nice texture. Do this for at least 5 minutes.
- cover the dough and let rest for a little while. Again, at least 5 minutes. there was no baking yeast or other leavening, so we aren’t looking for a particular size difference.
- chop it up into 1/4ths and put it in a pot. Fill it with vegetable stock (or better than bouillon and water) until the seitan is covered.
- Here is where you’re going to add flavors. I would suggest any or all of: More bouillon, Liquid Aminos, garlic, onion (never onion powder), lemon pepper, MSG, chives, chili pepper, paprika, cumin, anything you feel like. You are going for a flavor that is savoury and a bit salty. Add more water if it gets too salty.
- mix in the pot, then heat to a boil. Lower heat to a simmer.
- Let it simmer for 1 hour.
- The seitan is going to going to absorb the broth, so after about 45 minutes, give the chunks a flip
- After an hour, remove from heat and let it rest.
- You can then slice it immediately and fry it, or store it in the broth.
- done
enjoy
2 points
thank you!
I was hoping you made the chick’n from scratch so I could learn your secrets. I want to be able to make that gardein shit at home lol
8 points
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