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Want a vegetarian turkey you can serve on thanksgiving that's like a Tofurkey? Want to make it yourself?
The this turkey is for you! This recipe uses vital wheat gluten to get a nice meaty texture and along with some spices and a rice stuffing, even the non-veggies will say "Yum!"
The this turkey is for you! This recipe uses vital wheat gluten to get a nice meaty texture and along with some spices and a rice stuffing, even the non-veggies will say "Yum!"
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For this you will need the following
2 cups of vital wheat gluten
2 cups of veggie broth
3 tbsp rosemary
3 tbsp thyme
1 tbsp seasoned salt (or garlic powder, onion powder etc.)
1 bag of wild rice (about 2 cups)
2 cups of vital wheat gluten
2 cups of veggie broth
3 tbsp rosemary
3 tbsp thyme
1 tbsp seasoned salt (or garlic powder, onion powder etc.)
1 bag of wild rice (about 2 cups)
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Instead of boxed vegetable stock, I used vegetable bouillon cubes, now, the important thing to remember here is to let the bouillon cool before adding it to the gluten. If not, it becomes a very rubbery mass that's hard to do anything with. I did manage to get it to work but it took a huuuuuge amount of pounding the dough to get it flat enough to put the rice in, and then the ends didn't stick together so i had to put it in a cheesecloth before boiling it. This actually worked really well as my "turkey" retained it's shape.
Thanks for the recipe!
if you dont want to harm animals, then wait until they start mass producing the meat that they can grow in the lab... (seriously, it's been done once before.... veggie burgers....just make a freaking sandwich....tofu that's shaped like a drum stick, wow....)
It's not remotely ironic that people who don't eat meat might want a way to enjoy some of the cultural conventions they grew up with but to find a way to do that with out meat.
When I eat fake meat I am not "Pretending to eat meat" I am eating something yummy that may or may not taste remotely similar to meat but I don't have to kill an animal to do it! YAY! And how and why I do it is just as much your business to pass judgement on as your barbeque ribs are my business.
1. Because in todays world much of the populations has adapted to the lifestyle of eating meat / animal muscle tissue. Meat eating has been something that all our friends do so in order to "fit in". It is not true that we all used to eat animals back in the olden days and now we are starting to eat more vegetation. actually if you look at recorded statistics you find that in the last 100 years meat eating has rapidly increased - and so has meat eating diseases. Coronary heart disease is now the number one killer in the USA whereas in other "less developed" countries heart disease and meat eating is far less prevalent. Eating meat fills your arteries with fat that plugs up your arteries and when arteries are plugged blood can not get through.
2. Analog meats or meat simulations allow newer vegetarians to have a means of transitioning to more healthy less diseased food / nutrient sources. Many people that are trying to reduce and avoid the overwhelming risks associated with eating animals, but have still not fully adapted to a plant based diet find that eating "pretend" animals based foods makes the transition easier.
Here are a couple links
http://www.streetdirectory.com/food_editorials/cooking/meat_recipes/history_of_human_and_meat_eating.html
And this one is very good = American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478
http://www.fullplatediet.org/ and http://www.drfuhrman.com/ both are sites that are run by people that are there for the primary purpose of helping
The Japanese also eat a lot of varied vegetables. I won't deny the potential benefits of some seafood, but please bear in mind that there's a LOT more to the Japanese diet than just fish.
Also, another reason vegetarians consume/produce meat analogues is the simple fact that many of our western recipes call for meat! I'm sure the creative and adventurous have no need for this pragmatism, but for some vegetarians the ability to simply substitute non-meat products in a recipe opens up a lot of culinary opportunities.
I've been a (ovo-lacto) vegetarian for a little while now (6? 7 years?) and I don't crave meat any more. It doesn't even register as food for me. I understand conceptually that people eat it, but it's like if someone held up a piece of granite and said, "here, this is delicious, eat it!" I'm not really vegetarian for any ideological or dietary reasons, mainly just a habit I fell into, but since I feel no need or desire to start eating meat again, I simply haven't.
It's true that cravings are informed from brain chemistry, but that doesn't mean much. Your brain might crave chocolate or heroin, but it doesn't mean you should indulge.
I know they were flat and large like chicken scalliopini and fried as such. Boy were they tasty. I really thing they would do really great in a fake turkey and or chicken like that.
if you eat meat eat local raised and know the farmer
Bon Appetite.
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