Seitan Salad

凉拌面筋

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as an appetizer
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Xi'an Famous Foods: The Cuisine of Western China, from New York's Favorite Noodle Shop

By Jason Wang

Published 2020

  • About

People might not know this, but the by-product of liang pi is seitan, a spongy vegetarian protein. When you remove the starch from the original dough, the remaining mass is all the protein—and when cooked, it turns into seitan.

While liang pi is hard to master, seitan is comparatively easy. Consequently, when my family was experimenting with getting the right ratio of water to starch for liang pi, we ended up with a lot of perfectly edible sei

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