Spicy Italian Sauzage

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Spicy Italian Sauzage
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Recipe type: Main
Author: Nina Vecchi
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 50 mins
Total time: 1 hour 10 mins
Serves: 16
Delicious seitan sausage that are versatile and freezer friendly
Ingredients
  • Dry Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup pearl barley (dry)
  • 2 c vital wheat gluten
  • 1 c nutritional yeast
  • Dry Seasonings
  • 1 tsp sage
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 tsp ground pepper
  • 1 TB dried minced onion
  • 2 TB crushed fennel seeds
  • 2 TB basil
  • 1 TB oregano
  • Wet Ingredients
  • 3/4 water
  • 8 oz firm tofu
  • 1 TB better then bouillon veg or chicken base
  • 4 TB Soy sauce or Tamari
  • 4 TB Worcestershire sauce (vegan) or Steak Sauce
  • 2 TB Gravy Master
  • 1/4 c olive oil
  • 1/3 c minced roasted red pepper (jar is ok)
  • 3 TB minced garlic
Instructions
  1. Cook barley in covered pot with 1 1/2 cups of water for 40 minutes until well cooked – let cool
  2. Heat oven 325′
  3. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside (you can opt to slightly crush the fennel seeds in a coffee grinder – pulse 2-3 times) Blend all of the wet ingredients except the garlic and red pepper. Use a blender or an immersion stick blender or mixer. When well blended combine with red pepper, garlic and dry ingredients to form a sticky dough. Let it rest for about 10 minutes.
  4. Divide the dough in half and then in quarters and then each quarter into four parts. Shape into a 4-5″ log. Roll each log in tin foil like a tootsie roll.
  5. Place on cookie sheet and cook for 50 minutes. Let cool and unwrap each roll.
  6. Store in refrigerator or freeze.
  7. Fry them up in a pan with a little oil when ready to serve.
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