Vegan Smokey Seitan and Black Bean Sausages
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!
Servings: 6 people
Calories: 142kcal
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: 142kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 977mg | Potassium: 208mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1456IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 3mg