(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
2 pounds seitan, cubed
1½ cups pineapple juice
2 medium
green bell peppers
1 red bell pepper
1 large onion
½ cup natural sweetener
½ cup rice vinegar
¼ cup molasses or rice syrup
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 cup pineapple mango chunks
1 cup mung bean sprouts
SeitanBatter5 cups vital gluten flour
3 tablespoons
garlic powder
3 tablespoons
onion powder
2 tablespoons dried sweet basil
Liquids5 cups filtered water
½ cup tamari
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
Stock1 cup tamari
3 tablespoons rice syrup, sorghum, or molasses
Filtered water to fill
half of 12 quart pot
Directions (to make seitan):
- Take a couple of blocks of seitan
- Cut them into small strips
- Take a little bit of oil and just put some in the pan to heat up
- Add the seitan into the pan and let it brown
- Take the browned seitan and put it into the little dish
- Cut the onions into some strips
- Add a drop more oil into the pan
- Sauté the onions
- To put some color take red pepper, de-seed it, and cut that into big chunks
- Put it into the pan
- Grab a green pepper, de-seed it, and cut that into big chunks
- put it into the pan
- Cut the top off of the pineapple, turn it over, cut the bottom off
- Take a sharp knife and just go right down the sides
- Cut into nice chunks
- Throw into stir-fry
- Cut a mango into cubes
- Throw into stir-fry
- Add the seitan
- Take a few sprouts (mung bean sprouts, clover sprouts, chickpea sprouts, lentil sprouts)
- Put a drop of water in
- Put the top of the pan on and let that steam soft
- Give that about 2, 3 minutes, just to let it steam
- Put the sweet and sour sauce
- Mix well
- If you want to thicken the sauce a little faster and a little bit more and not have to sit there and wait until the sauce reduces down, you can take a bowl, take a little bit of cornstarch or arrowroot powder, add just the smallest amount of water to dissolve cornstarch
- Take that cornstarch and pour it right in
- Mix it all together
- Take some rice and put it into the plate
- Take our sweet and sour and just spoon this right onto our bed of rice
- Ready to serve
Directions (to make sweet and sour sauce):
- Add a little bit of rice syrup (to give it a little bit of extra thickness)
- Add a teaspoon of the tamari
- Add a tablespoon of the sugar
- Put about the same amount of rice vinegar as you did with the rice syrup
- Mix that all
- Add a little bit of pineapple juice
- Stir that up
- Ready to use