How to make Seitan

Ingredients

• 2 cups vital wheat gluten (I buy this at bulk barn)
• 2 cups of cold water (very important that it is cold!)
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 1 tbsp sea salt
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp soy sauce (I use Tamari)
• 2 tbsp tomato paste

Instructions

1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl
2. Mix all the wet ingredients in another bowl
3. Pour 80-90% of wet ingredients into the dry ingredients
4. Knead into a dough with your hands or a spoon etc
5. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rest for half an hour
6. Knead the dough again, and form into a loaf
7. Add cold water into a pot (important it's cold water) and pour what's remaining of the wet ingredients
8. Add 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp white pepper, 4 garlic cloves, 1 roughly cut onion, and stir
9. Put the loaf into the pot
10. Add cold water until the fluids are an inch above the loaf
11. Put on a cold burner, and turn burner on medium heat
12. Let simmer lightly for approximately 1h 15 minutes