Wheat Roast

[Texasgal]

I'm impressed! Just made some wheat roast fajitas with grilled peppers and onions along with some pico and black beans!

I think this may be a new thing for me! I've never tried it and I am a big fan now!

Anyone have any good wheat roast recipes?

[Lucinda]

1. I had to look it up!

Do you make yours from scratch or do you have a good brand available in your market?
Looks interesting to me!

[Texasgal]

2. I purchased a block..

Sliced it, seasoned it and grilled it. I am seriously impressed! Since going veggie I haven't found many "good" meat substitutes... this one was pretty good!

[Warpy]

5. I made my own seitan in warm weather

when it was nice to be up to my elbows in cool water, kneading starch out of a ball of flour and water dough. I saved the first and second rinses in gallon jugs for the starch and wheat bran to settle out, decanted the water, and dried the residue on cookie sheets in a low oven. It produced hands down the best bran cereal I've ever had.

By the time I got the water down to translucent (usually the fourth change), the seitan was ready to pull apart into chunks and finish in a seasoned broth. There was no way to shape it, the gluten was too active.

My favorite way to use it was in stir fries. I also made a great seitan Stroganoff. Grilled with peppers and onions was also good. About the only failures were trying to use it like hamburger and putting it in tomato sauce. It was edible but weird both ways.

Tip: a broth made with Marmite or Vegemite and thickened with cornstarch can make a really meaty tasting gravy for wheat meat/seitan. You'll wonder why you ever wasted money at the meat counter.

[Texasgal]

6. I like seitan when I stir fry it

many times it comes out runny or void of flavor!

I am super impressed by you making it by hand! WOW! I tend to buy it. Maybe I need to play around with it a little more, it just didn't give me the "flavor" that I crave!!

[Warpy]

7. Try the Marmite/Vegemite sauce with it

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You'll be amazed by the change in flavor. However, I found it was better as something with veggies, not just a slab on a plate.

ETA: making seitan is not difficult and not really that time consuming. As I said, it's pleasant to be up to the elbows in cool water in summer, which is when I made it. It didn't freeze super well, but it did freeze, so I'd eat it all year. I did use whole wheat flour because, hey, bran cereal!

The kneading only took 20 minutes or so.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Sietan can also be made using gluten flour ...

... (also known as vital wheat gluten). It's a much easier process. I usually kneed it in the mixer, too. I then wrestle the uncooked mass into a more or less flattened steak-like shape before simmering.

[Warpy]

10. Whole wheat flour is cheaper

and besides, bran cereal!

It was a case of what I could get at a store that sold whole foods and nothing super refined like gluten flour.

[KC]

3. Where did

you purchase it? And how do you
store it, in the refrigerator ? It sounds
interesting. I had to look it up because
I'd never heard of it before.

[Texasgal]

4. I bought it here:

http://www.whitemountainfoods.com/WheatProductPage.html

You can store it in the fridge. Like I said I was impressed with it! Good stuff!

Edit: I just realized that there are tons of recipes on that site for wheat Roast!

[KC]

8. Thank you!

Think I'm going to get some to try too.