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Sylvia’s Veg*n Food Reviews: Sweet Earth Curry Recipe Seitan

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Hey Pati, (and others reading this blog)

So sorry for the hiatus… you know how it is… Family Days approach at the museum and I’m completely useless and non-productive in all other aspects of my life for like a week.

But I’m getting the hang of it, so it shouldn’t be a permanent thing (hopefully, that would suck, seeing as they’re monthly).

So this week, I decided to do another food review since I went shopping today and got something totally different: Seitan.

I’ve never bought seitan, it’s usually pricey and I tried to make it from scratch twice to underwhelming results. I bought this stuff, curry seitan by Sweet Earth.

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I love curry, I’m no expert on it, but I do enjoy most things curry…. I once had curry flavored popcorn… hooo mama!

Anyway, this stuff comes in about 4 rectangles, that you can chop up. I took 2 rectangles and sliced them into thin squares and made simple skillet dish with some chopped veg (broccoli, cauliflower, and snap peas).

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I kept the seasoning light, with only some salt and pepper (mainly for the veg) because I wanted to taste the full curry potential of this seitan… it was very aromatic from opening the package, so I knew it would be packed with flavor.

I served it on a bed of seasoned cous cous (salt, pepper, paprika) and dug in.

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The texture was good, firm and kinda spongey (in a good way) very aromatic, as curry should be, and it took everything in my power not to scarf down my bowl.  It was a very yummy dish, for being so simplistic and easy to make.

My rating: 10/10

I’ll be buying this stuff again, I could see it being good in a sandwich.

Any suggestions or products I should try for future posts?

P.S.

1) sorry for the crappy cell phone pictures, I really should start using a legit camera on this blog.

2) I wanna share a little thing that made me smile today (as this blog is about enjoying the little things) so here you go, a video of a schnauzer freaking out and fainting from happiness when she reunites with her owner after 2 years apart!  (She’s okay now!)