Hi guys,
You probably already know of Candice Hutchings from the Edgy veg. She posts some pretty insanely
awesome looking veganized junk food every monday on her channel here on youtube.
In this video, I'm trying her Popeyes Bonafide Chicken recipe, an adaptation of her butter
milk biscuits, and Pulled Pork Tacos, all vegan of course, and letting you know what
I think.
For the buttermilk biscuits, I followed her recipe up until it was time to put in the
Earth Balance. I was out of EB so I used some chilled coconut oil.
Also, because of some of the feedback in the comments, I decided to cut the fat into the
flour mixture instead of melting and mixing it in.
This is really similar to how I would make scones.
You see, I have never had a real Southern-style biscuit before and didn't really know what
it was supposed to be like.
But these turned out to look a lot like the ones I've seen on Pinterest, so I'll call
it a success.
They tasted good. Flakey and soft and the top was just a little crusty. If you want
to make the biscuits like I did here, I have the adapted recipe in the description below.
These went with the Popeyes Bonafide vegan chicken.
Again, I didnt know what they were supposed to taste like. And since I didn't know if
I was going to like it, I decided to make a half batch.
This started with the liquid part for the seitan. Which was all Frank's Hot Sauce. As
I was measuring the Frank's, I chickened out and replaced a quarter of the amount with
chicken-style vegetable broth.
When I had the liquid part all smooth, I threw together the dry ingredients.
And then the wet and the dry together to make this bright orange seitan dough.
These little nuggets were gently boiled for an hour, drained and cooled.
Time to get some breading on.
Dredge in a flour mixture, dunk in egg replacer, and back in the seasoned flour.
I won't show you the deep frying part as I've decided it's way too dangerous to fry on the
stove and film at the same time as last time, I burnt myself good making donuts from Mayim's
Vegan Table.
These turned out turned out nice and crispy on the outside.
And inside, they were super juicy.
Does it taste like chicken. No, according to my omni boyfriend. And it's a no from me
as well. But they did taste delicious. Saturated with buffalo chicken sauce, spicy, and vinegary,
and delicious.
If you like seitan, you'll enjoy this. Super yummy especially sandwiched in a split
biscuit.
This was quite a bit of work and a lot of fat and salt so I'd save this one for the
rare occasion but I will definitely make it again.
Next, we have these Pulled Pork Tacos except they are actually made with jackfruit.
This is the jackfruit that I used which is green, unripe and you've probably seen this
in a lot of pulled pork type vegan recipes.
I started by marinating the jackfruit. I've tried a few jackfruit posing as pork recipes
in the past and never really liked them so this was my last ditch effort at trying jackfruit
in a savory application.
I marinated this overnight. Then presto chango, it's turned into vegan pulled pork. Even my
boyfriend said it looks just like the real thing. It looks amazing
For this recipe, there was also a mango salsa recipe and lime crema which is like the sour
cream topping for our tacos.
So here we have some of our jackfruit pulled pork, some mango salsa, and finally the lime
creama.
Taking a bite all together, this tastes really nice. The mango salsa with cilantro tastes
nice and fresh and I would probably make it again for other dishes too.
For the jackfruit pulled pork, does it taste like pulled pork? I would have to say no.
Not at all. And my omni boyfriend agreed.
I really think the spices and onions would be really good with lentils or mushrooms or
something else but they aren't strong enough to cover the taste of the jackfruit. To me,
jackfruit has a distinct fruity aroma that is obvious and just doesn't seem suited to
this dish.
So overall, I loved all the recipes except for now I know I just don't like jackfruit
in savory dishes. It's good thing to know these things about yourself.
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ones were your favourites. .
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