VegGyros - as close to a recipe as you'll get from me ...

Today was the Day Of The Great VegGyro Experiment. That's pronounced "Vej-YEAR-oh", by the way. Which means I took my personal experimentation to the next level and made my family eat it.

And it passed well enough that I figured I could share the 'close enough to a recipe' notes with you, since I will make it again but probably not keep taking pictures every time, LOL.

I started by kimodifying the famous (well, in some circles, maybe not yours) Seitan O' Greatness recipe ... which is a baked, rather than simmered, seitan.

I used the spices Becky had listed for the ground beef gyros instead of those listed for the Seitan O' Greatness, and I squarshed it into a flat roll rather than a round roll, both for the sake of finished shape and hoping it would bake quicker, since I was running out of time at the moment I decided this would, indeed, be tonight's dinner.

My kimodified faux-faux-lamb-spam was made as follows:

Ingredients:
1.5 cups vital wheat gluten
2 T. nutritional yeast
1 T. oregano
1 T. garlic powder
2 tsp. onion powder
2 tsp pepper

3/4 cups water
1/4 cup tomato puree
1 tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
2 tbsp vegetarian Worcestershire sauce (um, okay, I admit MINE wasn't vegetarian)
a few shakes hickory smoked liquid stuff

Preheat oven to 325°.

I mixed mine in my food processor with the dough blade it came together in a few minutes nicely.

Form into a log 10-12" long, squarsh flat, wrap tightly in foil, twisting ends. Bake for 55 minutes. When done baking, unwrap and cool for a few minutes, until you remember you don't have time to dawdle because it's nearly 6 pm. Slice seitan into 'lamb-spam looking' slices ... sautee in a "beefy" broth (using vegetarian 'beef' broth or soy sauce) and a little more of the same spices added to the dry ingredients, above. When it simmers down and starts to brown, add a splash of cooking sherry, if desired, and cook down again, while waiting for the choir-attending-daughter to return home.

I find it easier to serve things separately so the family can pick and choose which items they want. I used Flat-Out Wraps again, with the faux-faux-lamb-spam, sweet onions, sliced tomatoes, and some lettuce, as well as the cucumber sauce.

The Kimodified sauce was:
1 cup plain soy yogurt
~2/3 c. finely diced seeded cucumber (about 1/2 a cucumber)
~1/3 c. finely diced sweet onion
garlic powder, unmeasured :-)
1 T. lemon juice
1 tsp dried dill weed

Then we assembled them and most of us seemed to like it, more or less. The grown ups more, the children less, but really only two of them stumbled over eating their 'try me' portion, so I figure that's pretty good. And in the end they DID eat them. In order to move on to peanut butter sandwiches. But still.

Ta Da! The finished meal.