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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2006-11-09 07:12 am

seitan

seitan - n., a chewy, protein-rich food made from wheat gluten used as a meat substitute.


Take wheat flour, wash away the starch, and you get a chunk of seitan. Fry it, steam it, bake it, eat it. Word is a neologism using Japanese roots -- it is not known as seitan in Japan. Wikipedia has more.

---L.