Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chewy, protein-rich food made from wheat gluten and used as a meat substitute.
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- noun
Wheat gluten .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's unclear whether the lawmaker was referring to "seitan" -- the vegan-friendly meat-substitute -- or to Hell's landlord.
HUFFPOST HILL - Congress' Manic Last-Minute Debt Maneuvering Eliot Nelson 2011
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After the seitan is heated through and the mushrooms are softened add the red wine sauce and the vegetables from that sauce.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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The next big thing - which got its big 20th-century boost from the macrobiotic movement, whose pioneer George Ohsawa gave this ancient food a new Japanese name meaning "protein-made" - is called seitan, pronounced not "Satan" but "say-tahn."
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The next big thing - which got its big 20th-century boost from the macrobiotic movement, whose pioneer George Ohsawa gave this ancient food a new Japanese name meaning "protein-made" - is called seitan, pronounced not "Satan" but "say-tahn."
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Even traditional meat dishes such as roast beef can be reproduced using a meat substitute called seitan which, when prepared properly, can easily pass for sliced meat or ground beef.
whoar.co.nz 2009
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And many of the vegetarian protein sources such as seitan and tempeh both of which I actually like are extremely salty which is another problem if you need to limit either sodium intake or fluid intake.
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It was obviously faux-meat that was actually called "seitan" (seriously pronounced "Satan," as in the prince of darkness).
Daily Campus 2009
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I'll put it this way: just because I didn't like "seitan," it doesn't mean I'm going to hell.
Daily Campus 2009
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It was obviously faux-meat that was actually called "seitan" (seriously pronounced "Satan," as in the prince of darkness).
Daily Campus 2009
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I'll put it this way: just because I didn't like "seitan," it doesn't mean I'm going to hell.
Daily Campus 2009
mollusque commented on the word seitan
Citation on skordalia.
November 7, 2008
garyth123 commented on the word seitan
mmm!
April 19, 2009