Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mian jin / seitan / gluten. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mian jin / seitan / gluten is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Mian jin / seitan / gluten is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Deep frying the wheat gluten creates O il Fried Mian Jin 油麵筋, little golden puffs which have a much airier texture and a smooth tender texture when cooked again. The top photo of this post is the Kao Fu made after we boiled the wheat gluten. This chewy elastic substance is called mian jin or wheat gluten. "Wheat gluten, also called seitan (Japanese: セイタン), wheat meat, gluten meat, or simply gluten, is a food made from gluten, the main protein of wheat. Mian jin is fried gluten that is commonly used as imitation abalone (clam meat).
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mian jin / seitan / gluten using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mian jin / seitan / gluten:
- Prepare 125 g gluten
- Get 10 g nutritional yeast
- Prepare 2 g baking soda
- Get 25 ml soy sauce
- Take 50 ml water
How to Make Mi-Chiya or Mian-Jin 麵筋 or Seitan - G. Yes, as I see it, you said "Mian Jin" means "面筋" in Chinese. We read it "Miànjīn" in Chinese PinYin. Also, we only call Wheat gluten "Miànjīn" from ancient to modern, never heard that "Seitan".
Steps to make Mian jin / seitan / gluten:
- Mix all dry ingredients
- Add water and soy sauce (adjust colour of final product by using light and dark soy sauce) and work into a dough
- The texture can be adjusted by the amount of baking soda, the amount of water, and how much the dough is worked. Working the dough a lot yields a fibrous, very meat like texture
- Divide the dough in four small loaves
- Boil in plenty of water (or stock, with our without soy sauce, with sugar and or vinegar, the options are endless to create a certain colour and flavour) for 30 minutes or until the loaves are cooked through
- Makes (at least) 500 g finished product
- Cut in pieces and use as meat in stir fries and other dishes
We read it "Miànjīn" in Chinese PinYin. Also, we only call Wheat gluten "Miànjīn" from ancient to modern, never heard that "Seitan". Others, Miànjīn always are connected with Liangpi, Liangpi is also a fantastic food in western China. Although it may be new to the west, mian jin or seitan is a vegetarian food that has been eaten in Asia for hundreds of years. Besides, Asian vegetarian restaurants often use it used to simulate pork, poultry, beef, or even seafood, due to its ability to take on the texture and flavor of meat or seafood.
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