I’ve always had this love-hate relationship with seitan. Every time I made it before it came out really sucky. I buy some seitan of the dry ready-made variety and that always comes out wonderfully. I found the recipe for Vegan Italian Sausages on the Happy Herbivore website (you can find the full recipe here : http://happyherbivore.com/recipe/vegan-italian-sausages/ ) and it looked yummy, easy to make and best of all most of the meals by Happy Herbivore are fat-free or at least low fat !!
So I made the recipe for the Vegan Italian Sausages from above and they turned out like this :
I added chopped them up and added them to the tomato pasta sauce that I made used for baked butternut and tofu pasta and mixed in some spaghetti and it looked like this :
And to top everything off we don’t have Daiya in South Africa and Cheezly is hard to find so when I found Vegusto No-Muh (no-moo) in an arb supermarket yesterday I was pretty happy !! They only had the “piquant” flavour available but it grates nicely and was wonderful on top of the pasta. The no-moo bit is really cute too.
Grated Vegusto :
January 6, 2011 at 10:07 pm
YUMMY! This reminds me of a spicy “sausage” and penne recipe i have in my cookbook.
January 6, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Thanks very much for the inspiration. I can’t wait to get your cookbook. I’ll have to wait a while to get it in South Africa though.
January 6, 2011 at 10:40 pm
That looks yummy! Have you tried the Simple Seitan recipe from the Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moscowitz and Terry Hope Romero? It’s really yummy and easy to make – I swear by it. I’ve never been a fan of the store bought stuff, and that recipe always works out for me.
January 6, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Thanks Kelly, not that I’m getting better results with Seitan I’ll give Isa and Terry’s recipe a try. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
January 11, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Hi there – at which supermarket can I find the Vegusto (not able to open the link)? Am keen to try it!
January 24, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Hi there, you can get the Vegusto at most Shoprite Checkers shops in Jo’burg. What area are you in?
January 17, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Ok, so where do you buy seitan from? I haven’t seen it anywhere so really appreciate it if you can guide me here.
thanks
January 24, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Hi Jarred, there are two places in South Africa that I’ve heard or that sell Seitan. One’s in Durban, which doesn’t help because I know you’re in Jo’burg. The other is the Seventh Adventist Church in Bedfordview / Bedford Gardens. The easiest is to get the Gluten powder itself from a health store and make it yourself there are dozens of recipes online. Seitan is like tofu in the sense that it doesn’t have much of a flavour but absorbes the flavour of other foods.