Vegan Chicken | More Marvellous Vegan Meat! | How to Make WtF Seitan

After the success of the "ribs"; I knew I had to try making vegan chicken, and my goodness am I glad I did! It's succulent and tender, and packed pull of delicious flavours.

The key flavourings are dried celery and lemon, which really give it a fresh "chicken" taste, but don't worry if you can't be bothered drying your own; both are available on eBay (just be sure to check it's powdered celery rather than seeds as they taste very different).

I also went with strong brown bread flour as I wanted to see if there was any difference in taste to white bread flour. There wasn't really, but the bran definitely brings an extra texture that's really nice. It does get stuck in your teeth a bit, so feel free to sieve the bran out first.

I reused the bones that I carved for the ribs, but you could do these as fillets/breasts, or even as one loaf and then cut into slices for Deli meat.

In this video, you'll learn how to:
✅ How to make a dough ball from strong brown bread flour
✅ How to wash the starch out of flour
✅ Which seasonings to use to emulate chicken and how to get them into the wash the flour seitan
✅ How to shape the dough onto "bones"
✅ How to cook the drumsticks in the Instant Pot (and an alternative if you don't have one)
✅ How to use spawn (starch that you've washed from the flour) to make a crisp layer on the outside of the drumstick which creates a fantastic "skin"
✅ How to make a delicious glaze to mimic roast chicken flavours

A website with printable recipes will happen at some point (this has all turned into rather a large project!) but in the meantime, here’s the ingredients. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions or suggestions

WtF Chicken Drumsticks

Seitan Ingredients:
1.5kg (3.3lb) Strong Brown Bread Flour
800ml (3 cups + ¼ cup + 1 tbl) Water
½ tsp Celery Salt
½ tsp Celery Powder
1 tsp Onion Powder
½ tsp Garlic Powder
½ tsp MSG
¼ tsp White Pepper
½ tsp Dried Lemon
2 tbl Chicken Flavour Stock

Glaze Ingredients:
1 tsp Chicken Flavour Stock
4 tbl Boiling Water
¼ tsp Maggi Seasoning
½ tsp Soy Sauce
⅛ tsp Liquid Smoke
1 tbl Malt Extract
2 tbl Spawn (starch run off)


Mentioned Links:
WtF Steaks:    • My Best Attempt So Far! | Wash the Fl...  
WtF Ribs:    • Vegan Ribs | Making a plant-based rac...  

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My channel is you watching the results of my 2am thoughts of “I wonder what would happen if I put A with B?” The answers lean heavily towards cake, and my ongoing quest to find a good meat substitute. I’m a vegan that loves animal products, but hates what’s involved; so I’ve dived headfirst into a rabbit hole of different plant-based textures and flavours. These are often the 1st time that I’ve tried a recipe, and I’ll talk you through why I’m using the ingredients and what I think happened when things go wrong.
Grab a vessel of whatever makes you happy and enjoy, but be warned; it’s messy here sometimes!

Timestamps:
00:00 - What am I making today?
01:05 - Get the starch out
01:54 - What will it taste like?
04:06 - Giving it form
05:38 - Under pressure
06:04 - What skin?
08:03 - Glazed (but not confused)
09:23 - What's inside?
10:46 - Abject failure
11:20 - Hail Mary pass
12:40 - Eat!