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Sweet and Sour Seitan
Prep Time
15 min
Cooking Time
10 min
Servings
4
Ingredients
2 cups cooked seitan, sliced
1 cup burdock (or other seasonal root vegetable) sliced in chunks
1 cup apple juice
3 cups seitan-shoyu cooking water (if available) if not available, use 2-3/4 cups water and 1/4 cup shoyu
3 to 4 Tbsps kuzu, diluted in 3 to 4 Tbsps water
small amount of brown rice vinegar
1/4 cup chopped scallions or parsley
Steps
Place seitan, burdock, apple juice, and seitan-shoyu cooking water in a pot. Bring to a boil. Cover and reduce flame to medium-low. Simmer 5 to 7 minutes, until burdock is soft.
Reduce flame to low and add diluted kuzu and a small amount of brown rice vinegar. Simmer 2 to 3 minutes.
When done, place in a serving bowl and mix in chopped scallion.
Serve hot.
Optional:
Add barley malt as a substitute for the apple juice.
Use seitan starch water as a base and thickener for this dish.
Use red peppers for color.
Author/Source
Michio and Aveline Kushi
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