Seitan Bacon

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Nummy nums! This looks like bacon and even smells like it when cooking. I'm having fun making different seitan(or gluten) recipes. This fulfills that craving I have once in a while for the taste of bacon, without the meat, fat and nitrates. In order to make this recipe ”look” like bacon you will need to make two separate seitan doughs, one red and one white. Layering them and then slicing makes it look like bacon! From veggieinmilwaukee.

by Sharon123·published 2013-04-01

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Breakfast

Servings

1 batch

Total time

1h 15m

prep 25 min

Calories / serving

646 kcal

Ingredients (18)

serves

1 cup vital wheat glutenvital-wheat-gluten
1/4 cup soy flour (can substitute chickpea or other flour)
2 tablespoons nutritional yeastnutritional-yeast
4 teaspoons paprikapaprika
2 teaspoons garlic powdergarlic-powder
2 teaspoons black pepperpepper
2/3 cup warm waterwater
3 tablespoons soy saucesoy-sauce
3 tablespoons maple syrupmaple-syrup
1 tablespoon tomato paste (I sometimes use ketchup)tomato
1 teaspoon liquid smokeliquid-smoke
1/2 cup vital wheat glutenvital-wheat-gluten
2 tablespoons soy flour (or other flour)
1 tablespoon nuttitional yeastyeast
1 teaspoon garlic powdergarlic-powder
1 teaspoon saltsalt
1/2 cup warm waterwater
3 teaspoons canola oilcanola-oil

Instructions (4 steps)

01Mix the doughs up and form into balls, each one separately.

02Break the red dough into 4 pieces and the white dough into 3-4 pieces. Flatten each piece and layer alternating colors on top of each other. This is your time to be creative. Once you have a big block of dough lay it on an oiled cutting board. Place another cutting board/saran wrap on top. Press your dough for at least 30 minutes.

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