by Chef Kendall Huff
Native Foods Cafe
So the Super Bowl is tomorrow… do you know what snacks you are serving? Well let me help you out! This month at the Native Foods Café FREE Cooking Demos, I prepared a bunch of Super Bowl Seitan Snack recipes to get everyone ready with some awesome vegan snacks for the Super Bowl.
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First, since all of them share a not-so-secret ingredient, seitan, let’s start with homemade seitan, which you will then use in the snack recipes…. Three different kinds: Original, Mexican and Swedish. All three use the same recipe just adding different spices into the seitan dry mix. Let’s do this.
Homemade Seitan: Yield: 1 lb.
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Broth:
6 cups water
¾ cup soy sauce, low sodium
3 each garlic, whole cloves
3oz ginger, sliced
5 each whole black peppercorns
2 each bay leaves
1 piece (2 inch x ½ inch) kombu (aids in digestions)
1. Place all ingredients into a large stockpot and bring up to a boil. Reduce to a simmer for the Seitan cooking.
Original-Style Seitan:
1 cup vital wheat gluten
3 TBSP nutritional yeast flakes
½ cup water or low sodium veg stock
¼ cup soy sauce, low sodium
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp ground black pepper
2 TBSP lemon juice
1 TBSP olive oil
2 cloves garlic, micro planed
1. Combine the vital wheat, yeast flakes, onion powder and black pepper in a bowl. Mix well.
2. In a separate bowl, combine the water/stock, soy sauce, oil, lemon juice and micro planed garlic.
3. Slowly add the liquid to the flour bowl. Using your hands or a wooden spoon, mix until most of the moisture in combined. Some dry bits a are alright.
4. Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a cutting board or clean surface. Knead for 3 to 4 minutes.
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5. Divide the dough into 2 or 3 equal pieces and knead until the space you want. (I like loaf size- it’s easy to wrap and tie that way).
6. Wrap each loaf with cheesecloth (tightly) and tie off the string.
**I also put 2 skewers threw the middle to insure that my loaves cook evenly
7. Once the broth has boiled, bring it down to a simmer. Place the loaves in the pot and cover halfway with a lid. Allow the steam to be released.
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8. Simmer (NOT BOIL) for 45 minutes. Then turn the heat off and allow the loaves to sit in the pot for 15 to 20 more minutes.
9. Remove the cheesecloth while still warm (Not hot). If you don’t, it will stick!!
10. Marinate, slice, dice or fry!!
Mexican Spices:
1 TBSP paprika
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, or more if you like it spicy!
1 TBSP dried oregano
Swedish Spices:
½ tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground allspice
½ tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground black pepper
Wild Card Seitan Wings with Spicy Apricot BBQ Sauce coming up next!
Which seasonings are specifically for the original version and shouldn't be added to the mexican version?
Posted by: Dora | 02/03/2013 at 06:02 AM
that is intensely spicy. i like spice, but this is way too much. i think maybe the recipe was supposed to be a 1/2 tsp of cayenne
Posted by: Dora | 02/03/2013 at 08:36 AM
Yikes, sorry about that! We have adjusted the recipe to 1/2 tsp plus more if you like it spicy. For the first question, you prepare the original as is, and also add in the Mexican spices. Can you send us an email at tempeh@nativefoods.com so we can get in touch ?
Posted by: Native Foods | 02/04/2013 at 11:08 AM
i've been eating at your restaurant when you only had 1 or 2 locations in palm springs. while vacationing i commented that i wished that the owner would consider putting a restaurant on university ave, palo alto, a stone's throw away from the stanford campus:)now that you have ventured into so many location and even out of the state would you please consider coming up to the san francisco bay area????? i'm telling you palo alto would be the best location even in the neighboring cities like menlo park or mountain view (home of google)would be great! people living on the peninsula could take the train and there are various cities on the peninsula like burlingame to the north and san jose to the south. but palo alto or mountain view would be the most prosperous in my opinion. we've had a family business here for over 30years ourselves. please seriously consider this area for your next location. we love your food!!!!!! fondly, alice
Posted by: alice booker | 02/12/2013 at 11:28 PM
Thanks Alice! We will pass your message along to our Real Estate team :)
Posted by: Native Foods | 02/13/2013 at 11:52 AM
Just discovered your restaurant and I am hooked. I have four locations to choose from nearby Laguna Beach and love all of them.
Think it would be incredibly great if you had one in Laguna Beach
as this is exactly what the people of Laguna love...natural and healthy. Thanks for the recipes online and in your restaurants.
Even my husband loves your food and he never ate tofu or anything that was so healthy before and he is diabetic, so I know this will assist his dietary needs.
Posted by: Rosemary Watson | 02/15/2013 at 05:30 PM