Seitan Soup | The Vegetarian Meat Soup
Seitan is the mock meat or the vegetarian meat prepared from the wheat gluten. A simple Buddhist delight soup prepared with seitan and vegetables.
Servings: 4
Calories:
Ingredients
For Seitan
- Vital Wheat Gluten - 1 cup
- Salt - ½ tsp
- Curry powder - ½ tsp
- Vegetable broth - ¾ cup
For the Broth
- Broth - 4.25 cups
- Peanut Oil - 2 tsps
- Ginger - 1-inch piece
- Garlic Clove -1
- Baby Carrots - 10
- Broccoli florets - 1 cup
- Cauliflower Florets - 1 cups
- Soy Sauce - 1 tsp
- Curry powder - ½ tsp
- Salt - ¼ tsp
- Pepper Powder - ½ tsp
- Prepared seitan
Instructions
Prep - Work
- Chop the garlic and ginger into small julienne.
- Cut the cauliflower and broccoli into small florets.
Steps
- In a wide bowl, add the vital wheat gluten, salt, and curry powder and mix well.
- Now add the ¾ cup of broth in one shot and slowly start mixing it with the flour and prepare a dough.
- It might be little watery, but as you knead the dough will thicken.
- Knead for three minutes and let it rest for 15 minutes. (During the resting time, you can start preparing the broth)
- Again knead for 3 more minutes and stretch the gluten and chop them into small pieces using a knife.
- While the dough is resting, in a wide pan or wok, add the peanut oil and once the oil is hot add the chopped ginger and garlic.
- Let the garlic brown for a minute and then add the vegetables (Broccoli, Cauliflower and Baby Carrots) and mix well.
- Let it cook for two minutes and now add the approx 4 cups of vegetable broth.
- Add the salt, curry powder and soy sauce and let it simmer until the veggies are al dente.
- At the stage add the chopped wheat gluten to the veggie broth mix and lower the heat.
- Cover and cook for 7 to 8 minutes on low heat.
- After 7 to 8 minutes, the seitan should have enlarged in size.
- Adjust salt and spice at this stage and let it cook for five more minutes.
- Total cook time is around 10 to 12 minutes.
- That's it Seitan soup is ready.
Notes
Peanut oil is preferred for this recipe. But other oil can be used too.
Add more or fewer veggies of your choice.
Veggies can be altogether skipped, and you can drain the cooked seitan and use it in noodles and stir fries.
As I used low sodium store bought vegetable broth and soy sauce, I used minimal salt. But adjust the salt and curry powder as per your preference.
Instead of curry powder, you can use garam masala and chilly powder too.
The more you knead, chewier the seitan. So knead as per your texture preference and as I mentioned it an acquired taste.
Add more or fewer veggies of your choice.
Veggies can be altogether skipped, and you can drain the cooked seitan and use it in noodles and stir fries.
As I used low sodium store bought vegetable broth and soy sauce, I used minimal salt. But adjust the salt and curry powder as per your preference.
Instead of curry powder, you can use garam masala and chilly powder too.
The more you knead, chewier the seitan. So knead as per your texture preference and as I mentioned it an acquired taste.