Spicy Baked Vegan Popcorn Seitan
Enjoy this Cajun spiced spicy baked vegan popcorn seitan when you crave for something yummy and crispy. These baked yummies are really addictive.
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Calories: 231kcal
Ingredients
- 2-3 cups Chicken style Seitan
Slurry:
- ¼ cup hot sauce
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon aquafaba (add in the end)
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Flour-Panko mixture:
- 1 cup Panko bread crumbs
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon hot paprika
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
Prep Seitan
- Cut seitan into bite size pieces.
- Add liquid slurry and mix well to coat.
- Allow the seitan to rest in the liquid for ten minutes.
Prepare the Flour Mixture:
- Mix ½ cup of all-purpose flour(use rice flour or oats flour if gluten-free) with 1 cup Panko bread crumbs, paprika and Cajun seasoning.
- Add garlic powder and mix well.
- Add salt and pepper.
Dredge and Coat:
- Add half of the flour mixture to the seitan and mix well to coat.
- Now dip each pieces of seitan into aquafaba and dredge it in the flour mixture for the final coat.
- Work with one seitan piece at a time for the best results.
Bake or Fry
- Place all seitan pieces on a greased baking sheet and brush them lightly with oil.
- Bake for twenty minutes in a preheated oven at 350F until the seitans are crispy.
- Your spicy baked vegan popcorn seitan is ready to savor.
- If frying, add 2 cups of oil in a pan and allow it to heat.
- Add seitan pieces into the hot oil and fry until golden brown.
- Serve with buffalo ranch or 2-minute avo sauce.
Notes
- You can add more hot sauce in aquafaba to make the popcorn seitan more hot.
- Add some cayenne pepper powder to the flour mixture to add more heat.
- You can freeze the coated seitan and bake them later too.
- If you want to store the baked popcorn seitan, refrigerate after cooling down and reheat it in the oven(not in microwave) before serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 231kcal