Powered by Seitan

Who says creating beautiful food takes hours? I whipped up this meal in about 15 min. Adding color to a dish can make it go from a “drab to fab” fairly easily. This picture above is steamed rainbow chard surrounded with some seitan (wheat gluten) The seasonings I used were very minimal, however it is bursting with natural flavor! For those of you who have not had the privilege of eating seitan, no it’s not food from the devil, it’s actually created out of wheat flour and is used as a meat substitute in many Asian restaurants. It has a meaty texture and the great thing about it is that is easily picks up the flavors you put on it. You can find this product at many health food and Asian grocery stores. Here is how I made this dish: 1 bunch Rainbow Chard 1 package of Seitan 2-4 tsp. of Paul Prudhomme’s Magic Blackened Redfish Seasoning 1 Tbsp Shoyu Sauce Chop the seitan in bite sized pieces. Spray a nonstick pan with canola oil and sauté the seitan with the Magic Redfish Seasoning. Once the seitan is lightly browned, put the seitan aside. Then lightly steam rainbow chard for a few minutes. (If you'd like, you can eat this dish with some type of grain on the side.) To make the dish look like it does above, all you need to do is put a mound of chard in the middle of a plate and place the seitan around the chard and pour some shoyu sauce on the chard for light flavoring. That’s it! What a simple, elegant and healthy meal!