SEITAN CUTLETS AND CHUNKS

Thursday 9th June 2016

Here's my latest seitan - made with leftover veg and potato stew + vital wheat gluten and flavourings:

Two ways to cook this - one half baked in the oven, the other half dry fried

All I do nowadays is to weigh off the leftover stew - today around 350g, then estimate how much wheat gluten I'll need - and I went for 150g.

SEITAN - NOW FOR MY ROAST DINNER

200g of seitan - enough for a meal with some leftover for the next day

Once the seitan is made, fill up a small cooking dish with as much as you can get in - in this case, around 200g - and then cook for 30 minutes at 200C.

I generally have about 2/3rds of this with my roast dinner, and the rest I'll chop into chunks and have in a chilli non carne or similar.

5:2 DIET - MINIMUM CALORIES (140!) FOR A FASTING DAY DINNER

I'm on a 6:1 programme of intermittent fasting, on maintenance, since I don't wish to lose any more weight. However, I want the health benefits that come with fasting, so a one day a week fasting regime suits me fine.

On a fasting day I'd prefer not to eat all - it's so much easier - but I'm not always able to get approval from my wife.

So I make a meal with as few calories as possible - which, for me, means a vegetable curry using plenty of celery and mushrooms:

Tonight's dinner:
750g mixed veg, chopped
1 dessertspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon curry powder
Sprinkle of dried herbs
1 tin chopped tomatoes

Total calories 220

(Click here for a more concise recipe and method - which is basically a quick and easy 'bung it all in' technique!)

This made two large side plates full of curry - one of which I had with 100g of broccoli, to replace the carbs I would normally use. The other I shall add to and turn it into a chilli non carne with some seitan.

Curry 110 cals
Broccoli 30 cals

So, 140 calories in total for dinner, not bad!

I use my fasting days as an alcohol-free day - so I drink iced water instead of wine.