Thursday, January 24, 2008

How Do I Make Gluten?

Combine 12 cups of ground wheat flour with 7 cups of warm water. Mix until flour is completely mixed in to the water. Dough will resemble bread like dough. Let mixture rest for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes are up, pour a little water into bowl of dough. Next, take a small portion of the dough. Put a plastic strainer over a big pot in the sink. Run warm water over dough while squeezing dough with hands. The milky looking starch will run off of the dough. After 3 minutes or so of continually squeezing dough, you will be left with the stringy gluten strands. Set aside and continue same process with the rest of the flour mixture. When finished combine all of gluten together and steam for 20-30 minutes. After gluten is steamed, you can proceed to use in any of your regular recipes that call for meat. For chicken like pieces cut up, season and use in recipes. For ground beef recipes, place chunks of gluten in food processor to achieve a ground up consistency. Then use in place of ground meat.

Note: If desired, the starch water and bran rinsed off from the flour mixture can be saved and used for other recipes including, bran flakes, crackers, thickening soups, etc…

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