Last night, I took a wonderful seitan class with Peter Berley (http://peterberley.com/) at The Natural Gourmet Institute. I had seitan dishes few weeks ago at Candle 79 with my 2 girlfriends and was amazed how delicious it tasted. Right after the dinner, I immediately registered the class with the institute because I love the taste of the seitan and want to know more about cooking seitan.
Growing up in Taiwan, there are many vegetarian cafeterias (it is self served for lunch crowds) where patrons choose various dishes and the price is based on weight (something like Korean Deli in NYC). Vegetarian food is very common in Taiwan and the seitan is usually served with stir fried or stew style. It is more like homemade dishes but Candle 79 is gourmet type (hence, pretty pricey!).
Before the class, I did not know that Peter Berley was going to teach how to make seitan (the title of the class is more ways to make seitan which is different from basis seitan class). It was such a wonderful surprise that he mentioned that we were going to make seitan from scratch. Making seitan is not difficult but labor intensive. At the end of the class, we had 6 dishes for dinner, spring rolls, seasonal vegetable with seitan stew, beer braised seitan, seitan steak, seitan sausage, and pad thai. Very delicious!! We got to take home some of the seitan that was cooked in the soy sauce based soup.
Peter is a wonderful teacher because he gives many tips of preparing food and his style is informal which makes me feel pretty relaxed when taking his class. I will definitely take his class again. By the way, he is not vegetarian!
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