It’s Thanksgiving today, a day of mourning for the millions of turkeys mutilated and murdered all over Canada to uphold a tradition. Turkeys are one of the friendliest creatures I’ve encountered. See my article about turkeys here.
My post today will be about making a cruelty free roast. In the old days, there were TWO kinds of boxed vegan turkey feasts you can buy at the grocery store. The Tofurky and the Unturkey. Not many vegans I know now have ever tasted the Unturkey. I must say, it was my favorite and I’ll choose Unturkey over Tofurky any day. What makes Unturkey unique and yummy is the crispy outer skin made of yuba. Sadly, Now and Zen, the company that made Unturkey has folded.
In honour of the great Unturkey, I’m making one from scratch! It took a while to find the full recipe on the internet but I managed to find it here!
roll out seitan dough and sprinkle with nutritional yeast
Normally I like to make seitan using whole wheat flour, but I got lazy and bought vital wheat gluten flour. With the VWG you just add water and roll out the dough. It saves a lot of work.
wrap the whole mass up in cheese cloth
drop in broth to boil for 1.5 hours
make stuffing
remove seitan from broth
unroll seitan, stuff it and wrap it up with yuba
put the roast in the oven and baste the sucker once every 15 min
As we speak, the Unturkey is still in the oven. I’ll do another post when it’s ready to serve!
This looks delicious!! Wish I could try one of these; I hadn’t heard of it before. Maybe I’ll make it one day…
Wow – this sounds amazing. Where do you buy your yuba?
Joanne…you are my “unturkey” super hero…can I borrow your cape?
Oo, I want to see it finished!
Yuba can be bought at T&T market. Go to the refrigerated section where you will find 10000 kinds of tofu. You’ll find the giant bag of fresh yuba. Don’t get it mixed up with regular tofu sheets. Yuba looks somewhat translucent…like brown wax paper.