Ingredients

  • 3 cups wheat gluten flour
  • 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • 2/3 cup nutritional yeast
  • 2 teaspoons ground coriander
  • 2 teaspoons ground sage
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 4 cups water
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1/2 cup tamari

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Line an 8 inch square baking pan with two inch high sides with parchment paper. Lightly oil the parchment paper.
  • Stir the flours, nutritional yeast, herbs, spices and salt in a largew bowl.
  • Combine the water, oil and tamari in another bowl.
  • Quickly stir the wet ingredients into the dry to make a very wet dough. It may seem like there is too much liquid, but it will all mix in with enough stirring.
  • Transfer the dough to the prepared pan and smooth the top. Cover with tin foil.
  • Place the pan of seitan dough in a larger roasting pan, then add water halfway up the side of the seitan pan.
  • Bake for 2 hours until the seitan in firm on the top, adding more water to the pan as necessary.
  • Cool to room temperature, cut and use or wrap to freeze. Unfrozen seitan will stay good for two days in the refridgerator.