Immediately roll in the flour dip, coating all sides lightly.Take one piece of the chicken style seitan and place it in the liquid dip.Place 1-2 cooling racks on top of cookie sheets, and sit it near your work area on the counter.Blend liquid ingredients together and sit next to the flour mixture.Blend dry ingredients together thoroughly and set aside.Give it a try and report back! I’d love to see a picture of your creation. Serve while it’s hot for maximum crispness with your favorite sides. Then you heat your oil to 350 degrees and fry it up, sitting on a clean rack or paper toweling to drain. Then you sit it on your cooling rack to “set.”Īfter about 45 minutes, you repeat the process again. The amount of salt you may need to add is dependent upon the brand of Creole/Cajun seasoning you use some brands are much saltier than others.ĭip your chicken style seitan first into the wet bowl, then the dry bowl. At some point you need to be brave and taste your mixes to make sure they have enough salt. ![]() …then you mix the spicy wet dip ingredients together in a second bowl. First, you mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl… ![]() You want the seitan ready to absorb the vegan fried chicken seasonings you’re going to dip and roll it in. If you used boiled seitan, be sure to remove all the extra broth it absorbed by draining it in a colander, then sitting it on several pieces of paper toweling. Pat the top with more paper toweling and gently press out as much water as you can. This particular recipe is about is the spicy Creole seasoned coating, not the seitan.Ī note of advice: Steamed or baked seitan is the easiest choice. Try making the gluten free seitan recipe posted on The Happy Herbivore blog. But you should feel free to use your favorite chicken style seitan recipe.Įven if you have problems with gluten like Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, you can still enjoy this dish. The chicken style seitan recipe I used is my favorite, and it’s found in my cookbook (link below). He looked at me with a big ole shit eating grin on his face, and promptly chugged down three pieces of it. I held my breath.īut then… but then… the magic happened. He gave it the serious side-eye at first, but bravely took a bite. I handed one of the vegan fried chicken patties to him wrapped in a paper towel. But thanks to BING and GOOGLE images, I was at least able to see what it should look like, and I think I came pretty close with this rendition of vegan fried chicken.įresh off the stove, these puppies are crispy and crunchy, with a spicy kick. It’s been YEARS since I’ve eaten Popeye’s fried chicken (I gave up fast food long before going vegan), so I don’t have a recent point of reference for what it should taste like. Now I have to admit, I’m going by memory here. I was going to make some Popeye’s style vegan fried chicken if it was the last thing I did.Īfter some trial and error, this is what I came up with. And since I’ve been trying to get this man to at least TRY some vegan food, I rolled up my sleeves and got busy with the challenge immediately. He proposed that if I could come up with a spicy, crispy coating for my “fake ass chicken” that rivaled Popeye’s, he would consider giving up his fast food favorite. Well, along those lines…I was recently given a challenge by a Popeye’s Chicken eating friend. I do that by showing them first hand that what vegans eat can be just as delicious as any meat-based counterpart. I instead choose to motivate people by stirring their curiosity and eliminating their fear of change. No lectures, no crazy dead animal pictures, no guilt trips about the planet or their health. If we want to present veganism as a viable alternative to omnivores, I feel the best way is to show them, not tell them. My thing is this, if we want to lead meat eaters to the vegan lifestyle, we have to meet people where they are. But that doesn’t mean vegans don’t want to still have that “fried chicken” experience with spicy flavors, the crispy crunch, and all the sides and fixings that we grew up eating, right? However, as vegans we don’t eat yard bird anymore. Honey, fried chicken is as American as hot dogs and apple pie! Though fried chicken is a southern favorite, and a mainstay food in African American culture, let’s not even THINK ABOUT pretending black folks are the only ones who love fried chicken. ![]() Popeye’s Fried Chicken is a favorite pit stop of the fried chicken eater.
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