# Seitan

This video demonstrates how to make homemade seitan, a plant-based protein, from bread flour.

- Total time: 720 min
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 5 lbs bread flour
- 6 cups water
- 1 tbs mushroom seasoning
- 2 tbs smoked nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 0.25 cup oil
- 8 cups vegetarian chicken broth

## Instructions

1. To save money, make plant-based protein at home.
2. This is seitan and it uses a $6, 5lb bag of bread flour.
3. It creates about 5lbs of pure protein after you wash the starch away, compared to a $9 bag of vegan chicken tenders which is about half a pound of protein.
4. Add 6 cups of water to the 5lbs of bread flour to form a dough ball.
5. Knead the dough.
6. Wash the starch away.
7. I flavor the seitan with spices to make it taste more chicken-like, otherwise, the flavor is neutral.
8. Knead in the mushroom seasoning, smoked nutritional yeast, garlic powder, and onion powder, then let it rest for 1 hour.
9. Knotting up the seitan helps it get a shredded texture.
10. Pan frying it before you simmer it helps prevent it from getting spongy.
11. It expands as it cooks so you’ll need to cook it inside of a stock sock or cheesecloth to help keep the texture shredded.
12. Pan fry the knotted seitan in a quarter cup of oil until golden brown.
13. After you let it slow cook in broth, it is all ready to go.
14. Now, I'm about to bread and fry these so I can make my own homemade nuggets.

## Equipment

- large bowl
- kitchen sink
- pan
- stock pot
- cheesecloth
- knife

## Tips

- To make the seitan taste more chicken-like, flavor it with spices. Otherwise, the flavor is neutral.
- Knotting up the seitan helps it get a shredded texture.
- Pan-frying the seitan before simmering helps prevent it from getting spongy.
- It expands as it cooks, so cook it inside a stock sock or cheesecloth to keep the texture shredded.
- For a shredded texture, let it rest for 12-24 hours.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@jess.flowers/video/7206089010131864875?lang=en
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/16c49c9b-815e-4ee1-b1e0-89e854705d1d
- Extracted: 2025-08-21

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