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    Home » Seitan

    Vegan Smokey Seitan and Black Bean Sausages

    Published: Jun 19, 2021 · Modified: May 15, 2022 by Vanessa Sturman · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 8 Comments

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    I have been trying and testing this vegan sausage recipe for a few months to bring you the ultimate, meaty and flavourful seitan sausage. While there are some great sausage brands, making your own is ultimately healthier, tastier and cheaper. They are very easy to make, using easily sourced and healthy ingredients.

    When I first fed these to my Dad he asked me "where did you buy them?" He said they were so professional! What's also brilliant about this vegan sausage recipe is that it is full of protein from the seitan and black beans. They're very versatile and can be used in any recipe or meal where you need sausages, and they're especially yummy for a BBQ or grill.

    Vegan seitan sausage in a hot dog bun being held by a hand this recipe
    A delicious vegan hot dog using our seitan sausage recipe, ready to be eaten!
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    • 🌭Ingredients
    • 👩🏽‍🍳How To
    • ❓FAQs
    • 🌭Serving
    • 🍴Similar Recipes
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

    🌭Ingredients

    The main ingredients for this amazing seitan sausage recipe are:

    Vital Wheat Gluten - this comes in the form of flour, which when cooked creates seitan. This flour is basically just wheat with the carbohydrates washed of it, leaving the gluten protein. This makes it high protein and low carbohydrate. When cooked i.e. mixed with water and other flavours, then heated, it forms a nice chewy and meaty texture. It's a game changer in vegan food! You can buy the flour online (affiliate link) or in healthfood shops.

    Black beans - just an amazing bean that is full of protein and fibre, and is great for making vegan burgers and sausages. With the vital wheat gluten, the black beans make up the body of this vegan sausage recipe. You can buy tins / cans of black beans (affiliate link), or buy dried black beans (affiliate link) and cook them yourself (which is cheaper, healthier and better for the environment).

    Smoked paprika - well, this is a smokey seitan sausage with those Spanish and South-American flavours. Smoked paprika is a staple for me and Louise! Buy online (affiliate link) or in most food shops.

    Liquid Smoke - also for giving a smokey flavour. You need very little of this so a bottle lasts a long time. We use this a lot when making vegan tofu bacon, stews and vegan smoked salmon!

    👩🏽‍🍳How To

    This vegan sausage recipe is actually pretty simple. Essentially you need to:

    1. Mix up all your ingredients - the sauteed garlic and onions, salt and pepper, mashed black beans, vital wheat gluten, sundried tomatoes, smoked paprika, liquid smoke, chilli flakes and vegetable stock.
    2. Knead the mixture (that will form a dough), and divide into sausage-shaped pieces.
    3. Wrap the seitan sausages tightly in foil, making sure to twist the ends. The foil should wrap around the sausages a couple of times.
    4. Steam the foil-wrapped sausages.
    5. Once steamed, they can be finished off on the BBQ, grill, oven or griddle pan (affiliate link).
    • Frying onions and garlic in a pan
      Sautee the onions and garlic
    • black beans being mashed for the seitan sausages
      Mash up the beans
    • mixing together the vital wheat gluten and black beans
      Add the vital wheat gluten
    • Chopping up sundried tomatoes
      Chop up and add the sundried tomatoes
    • pouring vegetable stock as the final ingredient for the seitan sausages
      Add the rest of the ingredients (add the stock last)
    • Mixing all the ingredients together the seitan sausages
      Mix well and knead with your hands
    • Prepare pieces of foil to wrap the seitan sausages tightly
    • laying out a seitan sausage on foil to be wrapped
      Roll the dough into sausages
    • seitan sausages being wrapped tightly in foil
      Wrap up the sausages in the foil
    • tightly wrapping the seitan sausage in foil and sealing the ends
      Make sure they are wrapped tightly so they don't expand. Twist the ends tightly
    • seitan sausages wrapped in foil being steamed
      Cook them in a steamer
    • grilling the seitan sausages in a grill pan
      Fry, bake, BBQ or grill!
    • Seitan sausage in a hot dog bun with fried onions
      Serve up!
    Step by step guide for the vegan sausage recipe

    ❓FAQs

    Can the seitan sausages be frozen?

    Absolutely! They freeze really well. I suggest freezing them after steaming. Then once you have defrosted them, you can stick them on the BBQ, grill or fry them off.

    Is this vegan sausage recipe oil-free?

    It can be easily made oil free (and actually uses very little oil anyway). When sauteeing the onions and garlic, just use a bit of water instead of oil.
    If you BBQ or grill the sausages then you don't need any oil. You also can bake them oil-free using a silcone baking sheet (affiliate link).
    If frying the sausages, you can use a spray bottle (affiliate link) filled with olive oil to massively reduce how much oil you use.

    Can the seitan sausages be made ahead of time?

    Yes! In fact if you're preparing them for an event, it is probably best to make them the night before (up to and including steaming them). Store in the fridge, and then cook on the BBQ, grill or fry them when you're ready to eat.

    vegan seitan sausages in hotdogs with one hot dog being picked up
    Vegan seitan sausages ready to be eaten at a BBQ or grill - they are delicious as hot dogs with ketchup!

    🌭Serving

    What I love about this vegan sausage recipe is how versatile it is! The funniest way to serve these is in hot dog buns covered with vegan spicy mayonnaise and ketchup. We love Rubies in The Rubble Ketchup (affiliate link) made from waste tomatoes and reduced sugar! For our spicy mayo, we go for Flying Goose Mayo Sriracha (affiliate link).

    I also just cook these up and have them with salad, as a high protein snack or as part of a casserole!

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    If you love this vegan sausage recipe as much as we do, please rate and comment on it below, and please share with your friends!

    📖 Recipe

    Seitan sausage in a hot dog bun with fried onions

    Vegan Smokey Seitan and Black Bean Sausages

    Vanessa Sturman
    This recipe for vegan seitan sausages is incredible; full of flavour with a meaty texture. They are packed full of protein from the seitan and black beans too! Perfect for the BBQ, with mash or in a casserole!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 25 mins
    Cook Time 50 mins
    Total Time 1 hr 15 mins
    Course BBQ, main, starter
    Cuisine American, british, French
    Servings 6 people
    Calories 142 kcal

    Equipment

    • Steamer
    • Mixing Bowl
    • Chopping board
    • Frying Pan
    • Vegetable knife

    Ingredients Note:

    For accuracy, I measure all ingredients in metric as standard, then convert and test the recipe for American cup measurements etc.

    (Heads up Aussie and UK readers- your measurements in cups are sometimes different, so please use metric or check you have the correct cup and spoon type!!)

    Ingredients

    • 1 onion (finely chopped)
    • 5 cloves garlic (crushed)
    • 2 teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon black pepper
    • 1 tin/can cooked black beans (drained weight 240g (1.5 cups))
    • 2 tablespoon smoked paprika
    • 4 teaspoon liquid smoke
    • 6 sundried tomatoes (cut up)
    • 185 g vital wheat gluten ((1.5 cups))
    • 2 tsp chilli flakes ((optional - for some spice))
    • 250 ml vegetable stock ((1 cup))

    To serve (optional)

    • Ketchup
    • Spicy Vegan Mayonnaise
    • Fried onions
    • Hotdog buns

    Instructions

    • Sautee the onions and garlic in some olive oil (or just little water for an oil-free version).
    • Season with salt and pepper.
    • In a large mixing bowl, mash up the beans. You want the beans to have some chunkiness to them and for them to not be a paste.
    • Add to the mixin bowl your smoked paprika, liquid smoke, vital wheat gluten, sundried tomatoes and chilli flakes (if using). Mix everything together well.
    • Then add the stock. This will start to turn the mixture into a kind of sticky dough (which you want). Knead the mixture for a few minutes to make sure that everything is fully incorporated.
    • Take off small pieces of the mixture and roll into sausage shapes around 3-4 inches long and 1 inch thick. You should get between 15 and 20 sausages - don’t worry if they are not all the same size.
    • Tightly wrap each sausage in foil, securing the ends by twisting the foil. This helps them keep their shape. If the foil is too loose they will expand too much and not have that dense sausage texture.
    • Steam the sausages for 40 minutes. Check water doesn’t boil dry and add more water if necessary.
    • Once they are steamed, remove the sausages from their foil wrappings. You can finish them off by baking them or lightly frying the sausages (to crispen up the edges). Or put them on the BBQ for the ultimate sausage!
    • Delicious served in hot dog buns with fried onions, ketchup and spicy vegan mayonnaise. Equally good for any meal that requires sausages!

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    Notes

    Once you have steamed the sausages and taken them out of their foil wrappers, they can be frozen. Or keep them as they are in the fridge until you're ready to fry, BBQ or bake them. 

    Nutrition

    Calories: 142kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 24gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 977mgPotassium: 208mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 1456IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 64mgIron: 3mg
    Keyword bbq, homemade sausage, vegan bbq, vegan sausage, vegan sausage recipe
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    1. Cheryl Palmer says

      July 20, 2021 at 6:48 pm

      5 stars
      Absolutely love this recipe…I used organic dried black turtle beans which I soaked & cooked and then used the cooking liquid in place of the stock. I love to share with local people & promote healthy eating (as a medically retired nurse) and this made a huge batch to share and freeze. Not expensive and easy quick prep! Thank you so much ladies 🙏🌱💚

      Reply
      • Vanessa Sturman says

        July 20, 2021 at 8:30 pm

        This is so great! What a fantastic idea to use the cooking liquid (so many great nutrients!). Love hearing about your sharing and cooking for local people 🙌🏽 What a lucky bunch eating your amazing food. Wish we lived near you 🌟xxx

        Reply
    2. Shellie says

      July 08, 2022 at 11:16 pm

      These sound great. Can I use the sundried tomatoes that are not in oil? If so, should I rehydrate them?

      Reply
      • Louise-Claire Cayzer says

        July 11, 2022 at 10:15 am

        HI Shellie, Yes you can use the sundried tomatoes that are not in oil. I would rehydrate them for sure.

        Reply
    3. Shellie says

      July 09, 2022 at 5:13 pm

      4 teaspoons of liquid smoke? That sounds like a lot and can overwhelm a recipe.

      Reply
      • Louise-Claire Cayzer says

        July 11, 2022 at 10:17 am

        Hi Shellie,
        Seitan tends to really absorb flavours and needs quite strong flavouring to be noticable, hence the 4 teaspoons. If you prefer a less smoky sausage, you can reduce to 2 or 1 teaspoons.

        Reply
    4. Shellie says

      July 14, 2022 at 5:12 pm

      5 stars
      Absolutely delicious, Louise. I made it as written with the 4 teaspoons of liquid smoke and steamed them in my IP. They came out great. How do you think these would turn out if you made them larger, maybe 6 sausages? If so, would you steam them longer? Thanks for a recipe we'll have again.

      Reply
      • Louise-Claire Cayzer says

        July 18, 2022 at 11:42 am

        I'm so happy you liked the receipe! I think you could easily make them a little larger, maybe increase the steaming by 10 minutes? There's no reason you couldn't make them into burgers too. (Or try my seitan burger recipe! It's great too 🙂 !

        Reply

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