Sunday, March 04, 2007

Seitan "Chicken" and Cashews


This dish was really tasty! It was the first time I'd use seitan, let alone "chicken style". It came from The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook by Cathe Olsen and had lots of great fresh veggies in it; such as onions, bell pepper, carrots, cabbage and corn. We made the sauce with a small amount of veggie stock, soy sauce, arrowroot powder and red pepper flakes. It was quite flavorful and the texture was good. Upon opening the seitan, straining it and ripping it into bite size pieces, it felt like I was handling meat which was kind of weird, but it all worked out. I had some leftovers on some steamed rice and it was super yummy! I would definitely like to make this again and also make some more seitan based dishes.

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