By cold cut I just mean something savory and better eaten cold, full in texture. I would prefer tofu recipes over seitan because I want to put these in bread and seitan in bread feels like too much wheat.
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I know you don’t want it but I think seitan makes the best cold cuts. Spice heavily, cut it very thin with a meat slicer, and it’s flexible and salty+savory like lunchmeat. Makes great sandwiches.
Bookmarked. This soyboy needs to collect all the tofu recipes.
Make you some tofu spinach and tomato 🥪👑
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of making vegan meatloaf and using that as a cold cut. It’s been ages though so I can’t remember my recipe anymore, but this looks fine https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-meatloaf/
This one too, you can just omit the cheese https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/veggie-loaf
I’d shop around a bit for a recipe you like and then experiment on it from there.- Buy tofu, preferably pre frozen
- Drain freeze and thaw. You can skip but freezing reduces moisture and I prefer this texture if it’s to be used for a meat replacement
- Cut into large pieces (I would do 2-3 for a 14 oz block)
- Cook, I prefer baking at 425 for 45 minutes, but you can grill or fry them. You want a golden outer layer
- Lightly oil and season (I do a standard blackening mix)
- Cook a little more to set the spice layer in
- Slice
seitan in bread feels like too much wheat
Somebody shares my struggle.
Is it taste or just the knowledge that you’re eating a wheat sandwich with extra concentrated wheat? (because if it’s the taste, tons of acid xor tons of base seem to really mellow out the gluteny flavor for me)
Just the knowledge. Feels like I’m eating so much gluten that I’m going to develop a gluten sensitivity.
Idk how available it is where you are but is it possible to make/buy bread made from alternative flours?
Vegan Dad has/had a lot of cold cut recipes, but many are seitan based and use a “ham press” and steamer tray to be made. “Thee Burger Dude” (yt channel and blog) also has a few similar recipes. Never actually tried these recipes out tho so ymmv
https://vegandad.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-steaming-seitan.html?m=1
So a good start is making a banh mi. From there your protein could be any sort of marinated seitan or even some specific mushrooms.
