my intro and a question or 2

[Guest guest]

Hi I am a lurker sorry to report. I joined the groups a couple of

weeks ago and have been trying to get up the courage to jump in. Well

here goes, I am trying to make the transition to a vegetarian diet.

But, yes but, there is always a but. Here is were i need help. I am an

american living in egypt. There really isn't anything available here

for a vegetarian diet. There really aren't any green leafy vegetables,

a limited amount of beans and no protein products like tofu or seitan.

So any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. My question is

what is wheat gluten? I saw that in the recipe for making seitan or

wheat meat that i would need gluten. Is that regular whole wheat flour?

well thanks for any advice

haad

[Guest guest]

Wheat gluten is the protein part of wheat flour, has negligible

startch or bran. In the US you can buy it already refined and

making gluten is then just a matter of adding water, kneading and

stewing it or baking it in a broth. I have also made seitan

starting with regular bread flour and washing the starch away. It

is a time consuming task, but there are web sites that describe the

process.

 

If you have the time and you really want tofu and seitan, you can

make these yourself starting with regular wheat flour for seitan,

and starting with soy beans for tofu. It is time consuming but not

that hard.

 

Your choices are limited, but perhaps you can get your greens

frozen? and you can substitute beans in many recipes, just use what

is available to you, and substitute canned or frozen ingredients,

and the beans you can get. Good luck

 

Cabrita@los angeles

 

, " live_from_misr "

<live_from_misr wrote:

>

> Hi I am a lurker sorry to report. I joined the groups a couple of

> weeks ago and have been trying to get up the courage to jump in.

Well

> here goes, I am trying to make the transition to a vegetarian diet.

> But, yes but, there is always a but. Here is were i need help. I

am an

> american living in egypt. There really isn't anything available

here

> for a vegetarian diet. There really aren't any green leafy

vegetables,

> a limited amount of beans and no protein products like tofu or

seitan.

> So any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. My question is

> what is wheat gluten? I saw that in the recipe for making seitan or

> wheat meat that i would need gluten. Is that regular whole wheat

flour?

> well thanks for any advice

> haad

>

[Guest guest]

You can make your seitan from regular very fine ground wholewheat flour or

regular white flour. It just takes longer. The Vital wheat gluten is the same

thing with the first step, the washing, done for you.

Let me know if you need directions.

Katie

 

 

live_from_misr <live_from_misr wrote:

Hi I am a lurker sorry to report. I joined the groups a couple of

weeks ago and have been trying to get up the courage to jump in. Well

here goes, I am trying to make the transition to a vegetarian diet.

But, yes but, there is always a but. Here is were i need help. I am an

american living in egypt. There really isn't anything available here

for a vegetarian diet. There really aren't any green leafy vegetables,

a limited amount of beans and no protein products like tofu or seitan.

So any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. My question is

what is wheat gluten? I saw that in the recipe for making seitan or

wheat meat that i would need gluten. Is that regular whole wheat flour?

well thanks for any advice

haad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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