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Thai Style Sweet and Sour Seitan Sunday, August 23, 2015, 08:00 PM

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I made a Thai-Style sweet and sour stir-fry but with seitan (I forget the brand name) instead of meat (or tofu). I followed this recipe [local] pretty closely. My changes were:

• Seitan instead of chicken
• Hold the garlic towards the end of the onions and seitan
• Added 2 jalapeno peppers
• Heavy on the tomato, cucumber, and pineapple
  • Bulk!
• 1 Tbsp (==3tsp, instead of 2) of fish sauce
• Used ketchup
• Turbinado sugar
• I basically did it all at one temperature in the cast-iron.

Other than that, I basically did what it said. I was a bit worried that it (a) wouldn't be wet enough and (b) lack the flavors but I was pleasantly surprised. The tomatoes gave it a lot of moisture and the flavors were all there.

The jalapeños (incl. seeds) made it very spicy. I still really liked it. I think next time, I would use Thai peppers instead of jalapeno. And I would add red bell peppers. The recipe says you can also do broccoli, but I think, at leat for how I like to eat broccoli, I would want to up the sauce amounts too.

Sweet and sour chicken or tofu (Phad Prew Waan) (from Thai Farm Cooking School)
Local Copy -- U: guest, P: (name of my dog, all lower case)

Tags: seitan, thai