Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- 4 oz vital wheat gluten
- 1 oz nutritional yeast flakes
- 3/4 - 1 oz wheat flour
- 2 tablespoon peanut butter or tahini
- veggie boullion cube for 1/2 cup water
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1/2 tablespoon paprika
- 1 1/2 tablespoon non-hydrogenated vegan margarine - melted
- 1 bottle good vegan BBQ sauce
Directions:
Oven @ 375 degrees
Dissolve veggie cube in 1/2 boiling water. Let cool. Mix
all dry ingrediance in bowl. Add water and mix well,
kneading into a ball. Mixture will be very dry and stiff,
but don't over mix it!! Just kind of pull it all together
and turn it out onto the counter top and shape it into a
square 5" x 5". Mix peanut butter or tahini w / melted
margarine, until well mixed and smooth. Pour 1/2 of mixture
into bowl, put "ribs" on top of mixture then pour remaining
mixture on top of "ribs". Now you are going to work the
peanut butter mixture into "ribs" by just pushing your
finger tips into the dough, about 1 min., keeping the dough
in its square shape. Remove dough to cutting board and cut
with a very sharp knife into 1/2" strips, now cut the strips
in half again - LENGTHWISE!! Spray cookie tray with Pam.
Put "ribs" on tray, about an inch apart (they will puff a
bit while cooking). Bake for 20 min @ 375 turning about 1/2
way through. Ribs should be lightly brown and crunchy when
they come out of the oven. Pour BBQ sauce into wide sauce
pan and heat on moderate flame on stove top until bubbly.
Put ribs into sauce and simmer about 5 - 10 min. At this
point you can add some hot sauce or liquid smoke to
the BBQ sauce to give the ribs a different flavor. I leave
the ribs in the sauce until ready to serve, put them on a
cookie pan w / a little extra BBQ sauce and broil about 5"
from the heat until they carmelize a bit, but be careful not
to burn the vegan sugar, as it can burn almost instantly! If the
ribs are cold I heat them a bit in the sauce pan before I
broil them. I know it seems like a complicated recipe, but
it's really not. A couple of tries and you'll be a pro and
enjoying a traditional meat recipe without harming any
living creatures!!
Serves: 2 - 3
Preparation time: 30 - 40 min
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