Ingredients:
1. 2kgs (4lbs) spelt flour
2. Mixed herbs (I used thyme, sage, coriander) to taste
3. Salt. Be generous with this.
4. Medium red onion, chopped finely
5. Onion powder
6. 400g (14oz) plum tomatoes
7. Cayenne powder
8. Agave
9. Spring water (for the baking sauce)
Method:
Start with two 1kg packets of spelt flour.
Additional ingredients. You can use any approved ingredients you like, really.
Empty flour into large pot or basin
Add water to make a VERY stiff dough and let it sit covered for about 30 minutes. It is important to mix the dough thoroughly.
Place under drizzling running water and rinse the dough to release ALL the starch. The water will be chalky white. Pour the water off as you go along. The aim is to get the water clear.
Beat the dough at first!
Really get into it. Squeeze and rinse. It will begin to feel gooey very quickly. Try to keep the pieces together. As it breaks up, I find it helpful to transfer handfuls into a strainer and wash as smaller pieces under the drizzling water. Place each washed lump into another container with cold water covering. This keeps it together.
After about 30 minutes of rinsing, you will end up with a little less than half the dough size you started with. Voila! You've just made raw seitan. From this seitan, you can make hundreds of varieties of dishes. For this recipe, we are baking it into a steak.
Mix all of the dry ingredients into the seitan while squeezing out all the air from it as you can. Shape into a single log and wrap the whole thing as tight as you can with cheese cloth.
Tie each end of the cheese cloth to hold the seitan tightly in place. Turn on your oven to 220C (425F).
Use the same dry and wet ingredients adding Spring water with the plum tomatoes to make a runny tomato sauce on the stove top. Place the sauce in a loaf tin. Be a little generous with salt.
Put the cheese-cloth-wrapped seitan into the loaf tin with the sauce and wrap with foil (or your choice of tight covering). Place in oven for 90 minutes, turning over once at 45 minutes
Just out of the oven!
Cheese cloth removed. Can be refrigerated or stored in your freezer up to 3 months. Yes, 3 months!
Dinner is served.
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