NaveenM
Assistant Cook
I made my first attempt at cooking seitan yesterday. Specifically, I made a vindaloo (Indian dish) with seitan instead of meat.
The seitan came out a little rubbery.
I used Arrowhead Mill's Vital Wheat Gluten to make the seitan, using vegetable broth to cook the seitan as instructed. This meant letting the seitan cook for about an hour.
I then made the vindaloo sauce, marinated the seitan with the vindaloo, and let it sit for about 30 minutes before cooking the seitan and vindaloo for about 20 minutes.
The result was a rather rubbery seitan (though the vindaloo sauce turned out nice).
The first thing that occurs to me is that rather than cooking the wheat gluten into seitan, and then cooking it again in the vindaloo, I should have just marinated the wheat gluten in the vindaloo, and then cooked it (as would have been done with meat).
IIRC, the seitan was pretty good after it had come out of the vegetable broth, but admittedly I didn't taste test it enough.
Any thought/opinions?
First time making seitan, first time making vindaloo, and first time posting here, so any help is really appreciated!
The seitan came out a little rubbery.
I used Arrowhead Mill's Vital Wheat Gluten to make the seitan, using vegetable broth to cook the seitan as instructed. This meant letting the seitan cook for about an hour.
I then made the vindaloo sauce, marinated the seitan with the vindaloo, and let it sit for about 30 minutes before cooking the seitan and vindaloo for about 20 minutes.
The result was a rather rubbery seitan (though the vindaloo sauce turned out nice).
The first thing that occurs to me is that rather than cooking the wheat gluten into seitan, and then cooking it again in the vindaloo, I should have just marinated the wheat gluten in the vindaloo, and then cooked it (as would have been done with meat).
IIRC, the seitan was pretty good after it had come out of the vegetable broth, but admittedly I didn't taste test it enough.
Any thought/opinions?
First time making seitan, first time making vindaloo, and first time posting here, so any help is really appreciated!