How to make vegan steak bites from bread flour and beet juice. This recipe shows you how to make high protein vegan beef from seitan. This recipe doesn’t require any special ingredients, just beet juice, bread flour, oil for frying, and seasonings.
This is a great budget staple recipe that is perfect for anyone who enjoys cooking from scratch.
An Overview of the Process
This has you do a process that removes the starch from the gluten by kneading the dough under water until you are left with pure wheat protein- gluten.
From here, season it with a vegetarian beef bullion cube.
Then it’s shaped it by twisting it and knotting it up.
To help it keep it’s shape, fry the exterior then put it in a stock sock.
You simmer the seitan in this for about 2 hours.
Let it rest in the fridge overnight, then shred it up!
Once it’s shredded fry it until dry and crispy-
The process of frying the seitan then simmering it a second time helps it take on much more flavor!
It also makes it taste very good.
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Seitan Beef Bites
Equipment
Ingredients
Seitan
- 5 lbs Bread Flour Use a high protein flour for easiest wash, otherwise you can use AP or Whole Wheat Flour. Cannot be GF
- 6 Cups Beet Juice
- Oil for frying Canola, Safflower, Sunflower, Avocado, or Coconut Oil all work here
Easy Vegan Beef Broth (Use Link for Bullion Free Vegan Beef Broth)
- 1 large Onion
- 3 Cloves Garlic
- 2 cubes Vegan Beef Bullion I used Oxo brand
- 1 tbs Marmite Optional, adds depth of flavor
- 1 tbs Mushroom Seasoning
Instructions
- Mix together flour and beet juice to create a dough. Do a stretch and fold every 10 minutes, 3 times to help build up the gluten.
- Then cover in salt water (1tbs salt mixed with 5 cups water) Let it rest for at least 1 hour.
- Gently knead the dough under the salt water until the water is thick. Pour away that water and pour over more fresh water.Knead the dough under that water until it is very thick. Pour away this water into another bowl (starch water can be used in many other recipes).Repeat the process of kneading the dough water cold water until all of the starch is removed.
- Place gluten in a bowl and let it rest for 30 minutes, it will leak out some water.Pour away that water and crumble over a vegan beef bullion cube and knead it into the dough.
- Now stretch the gluten into a long rope and twist it. Tie the gluten into many knots to create a knotted loaf.
- Now heat up a frying pan and pour in oil. Fry the knotted loaf until all the sides are browned.Place the cooked loaf into a stock stock.
- In a large pot fry up onions and garlic until golden brown. Add in about 8 cups of water, the 2 bullion cubes, marmite, and mushroom seasoning. Taste to ensure its flavored enough, adding more seasonings of bullion if desired.Reduce heat to low and add the gluten. Leave on a simmer for at least 2 hours (you can also use a slow cooker here).
- Once it’s nice and firm move it to the fridge and let it rest overnight. Jar up your broth and reserve it for the next day.
- Shred the loaf into bite sized pieces.Heat up a frying pan with oil and fry the seitan until very crispy (think of this as dehydrating the gluten into oil).
- Heat up the broth from the day before and add the crispy seitan to it. Let it simmer for 10 minutes or until tender.Strain away from the broth.
- Now your vegan beef bites (and broth) are ready for all kinds of recipes!
