Vegans- can you tell me about seitan?
#342204 - 02/16/09 04:43 PM
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I have a great vegan cookbook from the library I must buy. There is a recipe for seitan. But since I have never seen or eaten seitan I don't know what to expect. Also how do you make tempeh taste good? Are either not IBS friendly?
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Below are websites on what you are asking about.. explains what each is, recipes, and how you can make it yourself.
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Tempeh.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Seitan.htm
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IBS-D, GAD (general anxiety disorder), Major Recurrent Depression, GERD (gastric reflux disease), Hiatal Hernia, PTSD
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So you really do say it 'satan'? My husband would have a field day with that!
Anyway is it tolerable to non GF IBSers? Being it is made from WW flour? I saw a can of gluten with peanut at an Asian market and made a joke that it was 'allergy in a can', but really it was seitan or wheat meat with peanut, don't you think? We are planning a trip to an Asian market we go to in the next couple weeks and I may buy some before I would go to the trouble of making it. My vegan cookbook has a recipe but it seems like a lot of work and DH would be making remarks about how it looks the whole time. I am finding it hard to have a wide variety of vegan food be really safe for me. Tofu is just fine and I like it but lentils, beans, even barley has given me problems lately. I want to actually up my protein some and drop my carbs so I need more options. I eat a lot of nuts and it is true I get eggs from a friend with hens since they are well treated; I never buy eggs or anything with eggs if possible. I can handle hummus and that kind of thing too. I seem to be rambling.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I LOVE tempeh, but for some reason I just can't stand seitan (pronounced "say-TAN"). I think it's the texture, I just find it too tough and "meaty". I think there's some tempeh recipe on this site that involves raspberry jam that's really good. We also make grilled sandwiches with tempeh, saurkraut, soy mozarella, and vegannaise. Yum!
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Lisa, IBS-C (Vegan)
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