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[Gina]

A wonderful dish my mother in law liked very much. You need to make your own gluten before you can start with this.


see this link on how to prepare the gluten into a roll
http://forum.kitchencapers.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7178

Yields 300g
Ingredients
300g vegetarian gluten
1 stalk of chopped chinese celery

Marinating sauce
5 tbsp Vegetarian Oyster sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp 5 spiced powder
200ml water
3 tbsp sugar
few drops of red colouring

Method
1. Roll gluten into a long roll and tie it into a knot.
2. Heat up a wok with water and add celery, rolled gluten to cook over medium heat for 20 mins.


3. In the meantime, heat up a deep casserole with the marinating sauce.
4. Maintain the heat to low fire and add cooked gluten into the sauce to cook for another 20 mins.
5. Turn over the gluten to evenly covered it in the sauce.


6. Turn off the fire, covered the casserole and leave it inside to stand for a further 20 mins.
7. Remove and cut char siew into slices.
8. Pour char siew sauce over it or use it as a garnishing.

9. ** If you want the char siew to have a bit of burnt crispy touch, just brush the char siew with a bit of oil and grill in the oven 200C for 10 mins

Notes
The marinating sauce can be retained and reused for the next time you make this again. Do not throw away.

Store this sauce in a recycled tomato ketchup bottle and leave it in the fridge. Be sure to labelled it(date, what it is)
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Gina

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[dewitan]

waaaa... i love this vegetarian char siew so much!!!
thanks for posting recipe, Gina!
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Sally

[Gina]

Sally

its so cheap to make this at home. outside stalls, they always give you 3 to 4 slices, so stingy!

best of all, the char siew sauce, you can custom made it to be more tasty, and can made more. Then you can toss it with rice or with noodles and have Veg Char Siew Mee!

I am making a big batch for my mother in law for tomorrow.
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Gina

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[dewitan]

i am quite scared of the gluten making process leh...
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Sally

[Gina]

Sally

its very easy to make. its like making bread dough minus the kneading.

just add water to the flour, mix with your hands till it forms a firm dough. Then leave aside. Later, just wash it with water..like washing clothes like that. the dough will shrink to about 1/4 of the dough size. Then its ready to use.
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Gina

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[dewitan]

Thanks for the tips, Gina.. I think i'll try this soon just because i love this char siew sooo much!
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[Helena]

Gina, what is the reason for tying the gluten into a knot in precedure 1? Do we hv to untie it afterwards before it is added into the marinade?

secondly, how long are we supposed to leave the dough aside for? one hour or what? sorry for the questions but you really made me lau nau until buey tahan already la.......

[Gina]

Helena

tying it will make it more compact. If you leave it as a roll, it will loosen up. After its cooked, it will loosen easily.

During the time when the gluten is cooking in the water..use that time to heat up the marinating sauce. by the time the gluten is cooked (20 mins), then put it into the sauce to marinate.
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Gina

The Lord is my Shepherd. I have EVERYTHING I need. Psalms 23:1

[Helena]

oh, understand liao. me very sotong on this !!! hahahah

[ruru]

I made these vegetarian char siew last week! yummy, hehe!
too bad i only prepared 300g of the gluten, will try out other recipes too!

thanks gina!

[Gina]

ruru

thanks for letting me know. do you encounter any problems like Dewitan? about the gluten breaking up during cooking in char siew sauce?
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Gina

The Lord is my Shepherd. I have EVERYTHING I need. Psalms 23:1

[ruru]

no, luckily for me.. i did what you say, tie it into a knot.
but i can't find any red coloring, only cherry red color. so mine did not turn out so nice bright red like yours, slightly darker.. will definetely make this dish again cuz it's so cheap to make ourselves and can eat all i want haha!

[Gina]

ruru

so correct! outside veg stalls only give you 3 to 4 slices.. I made 300g of my MIL the other day..she is so very happy. She loves to eat this.
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Gina

The Lord is my Shepherd. I have EVERYTHING I need. Psalms 23:1

[paati]

Thanks,Gina for the recipe made this today with your gluten recipe! but no photo!since everything disappeared before i could take a photo of the finnished dish :lol:
paati

[cookiemonster]

Vege beehoon with char siew (dripping with sauce)


Thank you Gina for the wonderful and detailed recipe!!
You are really our online cooking master!!
24/7 accessible somemore!!

[Gina]

cookiemonster

thank you for your kind comments. Many times I feel that my recipes are created more for folks like you who are so far away from Singapore..and to miss our local food here.



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Gina

The Lord is my Shepherd. I have EVERYTHING I need. Psalms 23:1

[jfanpa]

Hi Gina, can you share with me the ratio of water and flour to make gluten? Do you use bread flour? I have not found a gluten I like in the market yet and would like to try my hand on this. I take it this can be deep fried to make mien jing right?

Btw, I am in LOVE with this forum. So many wonderful recipes, tried and true and so many sifu here to help answer questions. This is like a great online cookbook, except you can ask questions. Thank you sooooo very much.

[Gina]

[cookiemonster]