Vegan Steak Recipe By Tasty Food

VEGAN STEAK RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• In a large bowl, blend 1 can of pinto beans using the hand blender.
• Add in garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, tomato sauce, nutritional yeast, liquid smoke, and soy sauce.
• Stir in your vital wheat gluten. After adding the vital wheat gluten, your mixture will begin to crumble.
• Slowly pour in your vegetable broth. At this point, the mixture will begin to turn into dough. Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes.
• Cut the dough into eight pieces. Using the rolling pin, roll out each piece. At this point, each piece will start to resemble real steak.
• Add the eight pieces of rolled-out dough to a steamer and place the steamer basket into a large pot. Make sure there is about an inch of water in the steamer at all times this will ensure that your steam will not burn. Steam the dough for 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare your marinade by combining garlic powder, onion powder, liquid smoke, and soy sauce in a large bowl.
• Add the 8 pieces of steamed dough to the marinade and let this sit for at least an hour.
• On medium-low heat, heat up grapeseed oil in a skillet. Add the fresh thyme and garlic cloves to the grapeseed oil. This will help give the steak extra flavor.
• Add three pieces of dough to the oil. Cook for 7 minutes on each side or until each side is slightly charred.
• Repeat until all the steak is cooked.
• Serve warm.

VEGAN STEAK

Steps:

• Add the chickpeas, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, coriander powder, oregano, soy sauce, tomato paste, paprika, black pepper, dijon mustard, liquid smoke and vegetable stock to the food processor and process until well mixed.
• Transfer to a mixing bowl and add the vital wheat gluten. Stir in with a spoon briefly and then get in there with your hands, mixing it into a dough. Knead the dough for around 2 minutes, you want it to go from sticky and soft to firm and stretchy, so that when you pull it, it snaps back into place. See our full post for lots more info on kneading. Make sure you don't over-knead it because that will cause your steaks to become very tough.
• As soon as you have a firm, stretchy texture, flatten it out and cut it into 4 roughly equal sized steaks. Use a potato masher to bash the steaks down a bit to flatten, but don't do this too much as it counts as kneading, and you don't want to overdo it.
• Wrap the steaks individually in tinfoil and then steam them for 20 minutes. Don't wrap them too tight as they will expand while steaming. You can steam them in a steamer basket over a pot of boiling water, or in any steamer that you have.
• While the steaks are steaming, prepare your marinade sauce by adding all the ingredients to a bowl and whisking them together. Let it sit for a little while and then whisk again. You want it to be nice and smooth and it can take a couple of minutes for the brown sugar to dissolve properly.
• After steaming for 20 minutes, unwrap the steaks from their tinfoil and place into a square dish. Pour over the marinade sauce and use a brush to make sure the steaks are properly covered. Turn them over in the sauce a few times.
• Heat a pan with a little olive oil (or other oil, 1 Tbsp is fine) and then fry the steaks (I found they all fitted into the same pan) flipping them regularly and brushing more marinade sauce on them every time you flip them, until they are nicely browned and caramelized.
• Serve with a side salad, baked potatoes with vegan sour cream, and if you like sauces with your steaks, then a creamy mushroom sauce goes wonderfully with this!