Crispy Baked Seitan from Have Cake, Will Travel!

Last night I made a seitan recipe I found on Have Cake, Will Travel! called Crispy Baked Seitan. Crispy might be a bit misleading, but other than some texture-based lies, this was a very simple recipe for seitan that involved no boiling, no broth, no baking dishes filled with liquid and seitan pieces–just four slabs of seitan.

Anyway, here’s how it turned out for me:

I put it on a bun like a burger and served it up with some (crispy) tots and some vegetarian baked beans. It was quite tasty ! My only qualm is that the patty was quite dense (so it got a little chewy), so next time I use this recipe I will make smaller sized pieces.

But something else this make me think of was trying out a recipe for buffalo wings using seitan strips instead. I’ve never fried seitan, so I don’t know how it will react, but maybe I might have stumbled onto something here! In any case, if I attempt to create this I will assuredly post pictures and a recipe! I’m actually pretty excited about it. I’m starting to realize that I don’t need a recipe, per se, for some things anymore. What I mean is that after a while you just get to know cooking methods and ingredients so well that you know what certain proportions of ingredients put together in certain ways will do in certain environments. I feel like I’m starting to get a feel for this with some of the new things I’ve been experimenting with lately (and I didn’t know I had this feeling for other things that I had been cooking all my life).

So anyway, I do recommend this seitan recipe, not because it was the most delicious thing ever, but because it helps you realize that seitan is really easy to make. And it really lends itself to interpretation.

Peace OUT!