Yes, it sounds a bit like we’re showing off, but in all seriousness, this homemade vegan chorizo recipe is award winning. And you wouldn’t want to miss out on an award-winning vegan chorizo, would you?
Recipe from VBQ: The Ultimate Vegan Barbecue Cookbook © Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer, 2018. Photographs © Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment.
Spicy Vegan Chorizo
Ingredients
- 2½ cups vital wheat gluten
- 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon hot smoked paprika
- 2½ teaspoons fennel seeds
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 3 tablespoons cooked basmati rice
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus 2 tablespoons for grilling
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
Instructions
- Mix the dry ingredients, then separately mix the wet ingredients with 2 cups (500 ml) water. Next, mix them together, first stirring with a wooden spoon and then kneading well by hand.
- Cut the dough into eight portions. Shape each piece by hand into a sausage and roll each one tightly in an 8 x 8-inch (20 x 20 cm) sheet of plastic wrap. Knot the ends.
- Put the sausages in a steamer and steam for 30 minutes. Let cool completely. Remove the plastic wrap.
- Brush the sausages with olive oil and grill them over direct heat for 4 to 5 minutes each side.
Notes
Tip: Spanish Padrón peppers make quite a good accompaniment for our chorizo. Brush the peppers with a little olive oil and roast them in a cast-iron frying pan or on a griddle. Serve them with coarse sea salt.
More about VBQ—The Ultimate Vegan Barbecue Cookbook
VBQ: The Ultimate Vegan Barbecue Cookbook by Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer
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Over 80 Recipes—Seared, Skewered, Smoking Hot! by Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer
BBQ is almost synonymous with summer—nothing feels as seasonally appropriate as a deck, an open flame, and the flip of a hamburger. Unfortunately, that leaves vegans out of a quintessential warm weather tradition. Sure, sometimes there’s an ice-crusted veggie burger or two, but mostly, vegan fare is decidedly absent from the typical BBQ—until now! Here is the ultimate guide to a VBQ, a smoky, succulent, and entirely meat-free alternative that will dazzle vegans and omnivores alike.
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Brimming with gorgeous, full color photographs, and innovative, easy-to-make recipes, VBQ—The Ultimate Vegan Barbecue Cookbook will transform anyone into a vegan pitmaster in no time.
Nadine Horn is a vegan cookbook author and knows how to make food look really pretty. She’s also an avid pottery-geek and loves to throw clay around her small workshop. She and Jörg Mayer are the creators of EatThis!, the most popular vegan blog in all of Germany.
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