Fried seitan

[pseudogeek]

...I wonder if there is a way to eat them. Maybe I'll just panini them and eat them like that.

UPDATE: Do not panini fried seitan. It is awful. The oil comes out and gets a hint of unpleasant bitterness to it. It's better to eat them just like that cold than to panini them.

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[rax]

If I want to fry seitan, I pan-fry it with a bit of olive oil and spices --- one blend I've been using lately is salt, sugar, black pepper, lemon zest, and smoke flavor. Smoked paprika would be great if I weren't allergic.

What kind of seitan are you using? Did you make it yourself, or is it the plain stuff in water from the store, or?

[pseudogeek]

It's a bag of deep-fried seitan bites that a friend's mom gave me, which was supposedly made by one of her friends if I remember well? It's deep fried with plenty of oil that made the brown paper bag greasy. I tried to soak some in water to let the oil out, but it's still oily. Maybe I should boil them in water?

[rax]

Boiling might help? That's probably the thing I'd try, unless it was just heating them in an oven and trying to blot off more of the oil. Usually I have really not-oily seitan that I am trying to put more oil in, not the reverse. :)

[pseudogeek]

Too late, my father just cooked them with vegetables and they got all soaked-like soft and still rather oily DX Maybe I'll boil them in water tomorrow. Hope they won't fall apart...

I should make my own seitan if I want to eat them. I think you had a recipe for that on one of your two DW blogs?

[rax]

My recipe is here although if you can eat tomatoes a little bit of tomato paste goes a long way.