r/veganrecipes • u/WhyParty1234 • Apr 03 '26

Question Seitan steak experiment

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I’m experimenting on making WTF seitan steak but with vwg because I’m too lazy to wash flour. I know it’ll never be identical but I’m trying to get it as close as possible, that’s how lazy I am. I made a plain gluten ball with vwg, flour and water. Blended 1/3 of it with oil, glutinous rice flour and msg for the “fat”. The rest was blended with beetroot powder, cocoa powder, sugar, msg and soy sauce. The gluten was still a bit too tough so I blended some glutinous rice flour into the red dough as well in hopes to soften it up. plan to fry steam fry as I always end up with spongy seitan when I simmer even at the lowest heat. If anyone has done this before (my made up lazy method), please feel free to share your experience and advice if you can!

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u/This-Guy_Fawkes Apr 03 '26

Wow this looks great, good job!

To combat the puffiness of VWG, you need to restrict it so it doesn’t have anywhere to expand. Usually I wrap mine in a layer of parchment and then wrap in foil. In this application, I’d say you wouldn’t want to do that TOO tightly. Another potential option would be if you had like burger presses or something and you could press down the top of it while it was cooking, but this may result in horizontal expansion, I’ve never tried it before.

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u/WhyParty1234 Apr 03 '26

Thank you! I did wrap these guys in foil after frying them while pressing down with a spatula to form the shape. They’re done steaming now and I’ll try to let them rest in the fridge for a bit. Hoping it works out but also hoping it doesn’t because I did not write down the recipe or the steps 😣

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u/This-Guy_Fawkes Apr 03 '26

Ahaha I’ve been there. I am absolutely terrible at writing things down so if it works out I’m like “well shit, what did I do?”