Seitan Nuggets | KFC Style Recipe
With a spicy and crunchy outside that encloses a juicy and flavourful seitan piece, these KFC style vegan nuggets won't allow you to miss the meat version!
Servings: 6 portions
Calories: 300kcal
Ingredients
- 500 g Seitan cut in bite size
- Vegetable Oil for deep fry
...for the marinade...
- 400 g Vegan Yogurt Soy
- 20 g Semolina/Semola Flour 1 tbsp
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric optional
...for the crust...
- 100 g Corn Flakes vegan, ground
- 50 g Panko Bread
- 2 teaspoon Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Granules
- 1 teaspoon Celery Salt
- 1 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
- 1 teaspoon Mushroom Powder
- ½ teaspoon Oregano dried
- ½ teaspoon Basil dried
- ½ teaspoon White Pepper
- ¼ teaspoon Ginger dried
Instructions
- Cut the seitan into bite-size portions.
- Prepare the marinade by combining all the ingredients to a bowl.
- Add the seitan pieces and coat them well in the marinade with a spatula. Allow to marinate from 15 minutes up to 2 hours.
- Heat up the vegetable oil into a deep pan. The oil will be ready for deep frying once after dipping a wooden skewer into it, it will start having small bubbles around it.
- Mix together all the ingredients of the crust into a deep dish or bowl.
- Coat each piece of marinated seitan into the breadcrumb mix.
- Deep fry the seitan nuggets until golden brown (this will take up to 5-10 minutes, depending on the temperature of the oil/size of the nuggets).
- Serve the nuggets immediately with a sprinkle of sea salt flakes with your favourite dipping sauces or simply with lemon wedges.