If you’ve tried to make the viral tiktok vegan chicken recipe and failed, this video is for you. I show you the entire process from start to finish how to make seitan from flour using the washed flour method. The techniques are important in order to achieve the best texture and flavor for seitan. You can’t see all these techniques in just 30 seconds. I’ve made this video to show the process in detail so you can see how the texture and color changes in each step. If you follow the video all the way through to see these tips you can get it right every single time.
Dough:
4 cups of flour – the higher the protein content, the better
2-2.5 cups of water
A better dough recipe (65% hydration):
For every 1000 g flour, add 600-650 ml water. Start with less water and add just enough to form a soft dough.
Note, you may need less water for your dough depending on your flour and climate. I Knead for 5-10 minutes and then rest for 2 hours or more completely covered in water. Drain and add water. Massage and knead the dough for 3-4 minutes under water to remove the starch. Repeat the process until the water is mostly clear – typically about six times. Let it rest 10 minutes. Cut into three strips, braid and then knot the dough as tight as possible.
Braising liquiod:
4 cups water
1 T onion powder
1 T garlic powder
2 T smoked paprika
1 tsp white pepper
2 T vegan chicken flavored bouillon
2 T maggi seasoning
2 T soy sauce
Heat to boiling. Simmer gluten in braising liquid for 1 hours. Remove from heat. Chill covered in braising liquid overnight. Shred, cut or slice the seitan for use in your favorite recipe.
00:00 Introduction
01:21 Prepare the dough
02:11 Rest the dough
02:29 Wash the dough
03:55 Second wash
04:34 Third wash
05:24 Fourth wash
05:46 Fifth wash
06:01 Sixth and final wash
06:33 Prepare the simmering broth
07:16 Stretch, braid and knot the gluten
09:14 Simmer the gluten
09:32 Rest and chill the seitan
09:50 Shred the seitan
11:15 Final Words
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So nobody's gonna say it?
Just stop trying to immitate chicken and eat grass if you eat grass, this fake chicken is annoying yall gotta BE STOPPED
Nasty
You can steam the starch into thin round wrap like things, cut them like noodles or make a roll with some chilli oil and the fake chicken, it's a popular tibetan street food called laphing, been making it for years , never knew there was a name for it or it being used as a substitute for chicken.
Man, thank you! That looks really tasty!
We are all on the wrong path to destroy the earth! All this energy, water, time was spent on making fake chicken meat! Vegetarians should reconsider their beliefs. These damages to the environment are more than raising, killing and eating a chicken! The way to save the planet from warming is the simple rural lifestyle. Without large and energy-consuming factories to produce harmful foods or beef or Processed vegetable products that consume a lot of water and energy which itself gives enough carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and we produce double carbon dioxide again with factory food processing. Laws should be established for the permitted limit of hidden carbon dioxide production of products and water and energy consumption on products.
I'm not Vegan/Vegetarian, but this looks interesting. Might try it out.
Excellent demonstration. Thank you!
How can you call it chicken if its not a chicken?
Random tip… you can keep the starch water for paper mache clay recipes and paints as well ❤ cool video!
I did this tutorial it worked amazingly . Thank You
Carbo chicken, yum yum. So delicious and make you fat like overweight karen.
any special flour I should use? unbleached? APF?
the old recipe I followed used vital wheat gluten. I’m guessing I shouldn’t use that haha?
Or hear me out. Just eat some meat instead of this because this is unhealthy as hell.
Just eat chicken and stop being such a wuss.
What is substitute for those onion and garlic powders
So much effort to eat something you say you don't want to eat.
Seitan huh…
I've tried it now and a few thoughts; I'd describe the texture of the dough as becoming kind of like chewing gum.
I tried making mine with a sourdough, but I got a bit overambitious with additives like chickpeas and potato, because I had no idea just how much volume I'd lose in this process. I'll try again later.
I will still be doing this again with both potatoes and chickpeas, but probably less than before. I'll be soaking the seitan with spices and chickpeas so that the aqua faba can incorporate into the dough. When I learn a new method, I try to see where I can double up the process and just letting the flavors go where they will. So if I'm already soaking the seitan, I might as well soak the chickpeas with the seitan.
I'm soaking the seitan and chickpeas with red miso, smoked paprika, garlic and onion as well as a glug of glycerin.
Hmm yum yum..
Yeaa too much work, after the 3rd wash you lost me, I’ll just take the chicken instead
How can i make soft, i tried this process but its a bit rubbery, did i over cook it?
Why do so many people ask the same question over and over again?
Why are you eat fake meat when you are vegan I thought you didn't like meat? Are they that stupid or do they want to provoke?
Just like those who complain that it's unhealthy because it's made of flour. Do they panic when they see a loaf of bread?
I'll never get why vegan people seek "meat" texture in their meals…
Looks like a dog turd. You're aware of this I'm sure.
This seems like a really good emergency option for cheap chicken.
Small request to vegans.
Call your foodstuff what it is, don't lie to people and say that it's chicken or any other kind of meat when it is in fact a substitute. If you lie about something so basic as the name folk are going to wonder what else you're telling porky pies about.
This is just a chewy bread
So nasty lol if your a non meat eater …you should have no rite to even try to enjoy the glorious beauty of chicken! How dare you. Stick to your carrots and vegetables
Very good video. What do you do with the starch water that you saved?
It has always amused me why vegans would want food to look like meat its so weird considering they are vegan to avoid meat lol
This was so thorough, I feel confident now to try making it!
Smoked paprika 😝 maybe if you make your own mayyyybe
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