Make your own seitan from wheat flour  Written by LAF on .
Seitan is a versatile source of vegetarian protein. Andrew and I
have been making our own for several years and he finally got to
making a video on how to do it.  Making your own seitan from
wheat flour is really easy. But I think it's not that easy to
learn from text due to the washing process - which is why I
wanted to share this video.  Basically it's making plain dough
out of flour and water, later washing out the starch to leave
just the protein and then boiling it in a marinade.  It takes
about 5 minutes to make the dough, 5 minutes to wash out the
starch and another 10 minutes for the prep work. So it's about
20 minutes work and including resting the dough and marinading,
the whole process takes just over one hour.  1. Don't use
wholemeal flour. 2. The approx. half hour "soaking" in water is
important. Too short or too long and things go wrong when
washing out the starch. 3. The texture of the seitan is
influenced by how much the dough is was