seitan
/ˈseɪtən/
seitan noun: specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
Noun
seitan (usually uncountable, plural seitans)
- Specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
- Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28
- Fifty people […] ordered from a diverse menu that included vegan options like wheatgrass shots ($4) and seitan cutlets ($16).2007 July 13, C. J. Hughes, “Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival”, in New York Times
Forms of seitan
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Origin of seitan
Romaji of the Japanese セイタン which was coined by philosopher George Ohsawa in 1961. Ohsawa also occasionally used the kanji term 生蛋 from 生 (“fresh; raw”) and 蛋, the first character in 蛋白 (tanpaku, “protein”). In Japan, wheat gluten itself is usually referred to as 麩 (fu, “wheat bran, gluten”), while seitan in particular is generally written in katakana as セイタン. Another common term for this is グルテンミート (“gluten meat”).
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Questions about seitan
- What does seitan mean?
- Seitan means specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
- What part of speech is seitan?
- Seitan is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seitan?
- Seitan is pronounced /ˈseɪtən/.
- What is the plural of seitan?
- The plural of seitan is seitans.
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