Do your make your own Wheat Gluten?

Making your own wheat gluten is simple, just mix up some all-purpose flour with water as if you were making bread, and knead the heck out of it to work up the gluten as much as possible. Now take your dough and run it under a very gentle stream of cool water, working it constantly. The starch will begin to wash away (with some of your gluten with it, sadly) and eventually you will have a nice, rubbery ball of wheat gluten!

or you could always fall back on the old-timey favorite of throwing a handful of wheat grains into your mouth. Chew them for a long long time without swallowing and eventually you will have a piece of 'gum', wheat gluten!

Yes I do

I buy gluten flour and then I mix it (1 & 1/2 cups) with 4 TBS soy sauce, black pepper, 2 TBS olive oil, 1/2 cup water, paprika, garlic, parsley and I make a soft mass

then I boil it into a hot vegetable broth for 20 minutes

allow to stand for 1 hour and then cut it thin pieces

seitan burgers:

Ingredients:

250 grams seitan

1 clove garlic

2 tbs. tomato puree

2 tbs. soy sauce

1 tsp. mustard

100 grams bread crumbs

Directions:

Drain the seitan as much as possible.

Place it in a food processor and using the sharp blade, chop the seitan in small pieces.

Mince the clove of garlic and add to the seitan.

Add the tomato, soy and mustard and once more using the kitchen processor, mix the ingredients well.

Remove the mixture to a bowl and add the bread crumbs to make a stiff mass.

This recipe will make 6 to 8 nice size burgers.

Heat some oil in a pan and gently fry the burgers on both sides.

I've made seitan a few ways. I tried a slow roasted seitan roulade for Christmas; it was pretty good, but the stuffing just sort of disappeared, so that part of it wasn't worth the effort. I make sausages using a steamed seitan recipe quite often.

I've never tried it the original way, washing the starch out of regular flour, only with vital wheat gluten flour.

I would really like to but I haven't yet because vital wheat gluten is so damn expensive.

I tried making seitan using regular whole wheat flour and the process was a disaster and I ended up dumping everything out. But I will make some soon enough with the expensive stuff.

There's this recipe for a vegan tikka masala that I'm dying to try using homemade seitan. pic:http://bp3.blogger.com/_e6y7EG4nAVY/RgXv5D1ooSI/AA...

Doesn't that look awesome.

yum yum wheat meat!

I do. I simply do the who boil and congeal. I will flavor the Seiten by marinating prior to use.

Yes I do, but it is very time consuming. I usually do it for holiday meals. It makes a nice veggie roast. :-)

ure better googling or posting on a cokking forum

no i never made....but i heard people make it....