Best Seitan

I have been making my own homemade seitan for years, but I found a significantly better recipe than the one I posted previously.  It's the base for HellYeahItsVegan's fried chicken, which is how I first encountered it, but I also use it sliced up in stir-fry, ground up and stirred into marinara for spaghetti or lasagna, and pretty much any time I would use seitan.  The spicing is amazing.

Ingredients

• 1½ c vital wheat gluten
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1½ tsp cumin
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• ½ tsp chili powder
• 1 c cold water
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp vegan Worcestershire sauce (Annie's brand makes a good one, and Whole Foods tends to carry at least a couple brands)

Broth:

• 5 c water
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp vegan Worcestershire sauce

Directions:

1.  Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl.

2.  Mix together wet ingredients in a measuring cup and add to dry ingredients.

3. Knead and mold dough into a ball.

4.  Divide dough into at least 6 pieces, pull and shape them into thin patties (as thin as you can -- they thicken substantially during cooking).  The more you knead the dough, the better the texture since this is gluten.  Don't be too gentle.

5.   Mix together broth ingredients.  Add patties to the broth, bring to a boil, boil for ten minutes, then cover and simmer for one hour, flipping them halfway through.

Drain the finished product.  You can dredge them in flour and fry them, bake them, slice and stir-fry them, or grind them up and use like you would ground beef.  They also freeze well.