Mexican Rice, Seitan and Veggies over Salad Greens with Guacamole
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  • Number of Servings: 1
Ingredients
Bowl of mesclun greens1 1/2 oz avocado, mashed1 tsp wild wood garlic aioli (vegan mayonaisse)2 tsp tamari1/4 cup salsa3/4 cup Spanish rice from mix 2 oz seitan sliced thin1/4-1/2 tsp cumincanola spray1-2 cups roasted zucchini, carrots, mushrooms, or whatever vegetables you havechopped scallions
Directions
Prepare the rice per package directions. While that is cooking, prepare the vegetables, guacamole and seitan.


For the vegetables: Preheat oven to 375. Spray a cookie sheet with oil spray. Lay out thick chunky sliced zucchini, whole baby carrots, whole small or halved larger button mushrooms (or strips of peppers, smallish florets of cauliflower or broccoli, etc) Spray vegetables with oil spray and sprinkle with salt. Roast 15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Zucchini and carrots will probably take another five minutes. Mushrooms will be done. Remove them from tray. Stir other veggies and roast another 5 minutes. Remove and set aside.


For the seitan: Heat a small frying pan. saute the seitan with the cumin. Add slices of jalapeno pepper if desired. Saute until seitan is browned. Set aside.


For the guacamole: mash avocado in a small bowl with a fork. Stir in 1 tsp garlic aioli or other vegan mayonaisse. If you are not using the garlic aioli, add a sprinkling of garlic powder
Then add: 2 tsp tamari
1/4 cup salsa
combine well. Cover and set aside.


In a large bowl, place salad greens and toss with scallions, reserving 1 Tbsp for the top. Layer with rice, then seitan, then veggies, then guacamole. Dollop the remaining salsa and sprinkle the rest of the scallions on top.


Perfect comfort food for those who like some spice in their comfort.

Number of Servings: 1

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MADDY_AVENA.
Servings Per Recipe: 1
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 380.7
  • Total Fat: 10.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 925.6 mg
  • Total Carbs: 56.1 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 9.6 g
  • Protein: 20.3 g

Member Reviews
  • DIVEGODDESS
     Seitan is a good vegan substitute for meat, made from wheat gluten, high in protein. It looks great, I'm always looking for a good seitan recipe. - 11/10/08
  • TABITHA-JANE
     tamari is wheatless soy sauce, crucial to people with celiac. also seitan is wheat gluten and poison to someone with celiacs. before i knew i had celiacs, i ate it a couple of times of week and just about killed myself. but for a regular person, the recipe sounds great. thanks maddy-avena ;) tabi - 6/24/09
  • NICOLEELIZANETH
     Althoughn this recipe may taste good it has too much salt in it. - 6/18/09
  • GINAKINA
     Seitan is made fro wheat gluten. It is also known as "wheat meat" and is commonly used as a vegetarian meat substitute. It is very high in protein. Westsoy makes a good pre-packaged seitan, but if you can find vital wheat gluten, it is very easy to make yourself too!

    - 8/29/09
  • RHONN1
     This looks marvelous! I must say that finding healthy recipes for ONE are important for me to keep on file in order to combat food ruts.
    Thanks for this! - 5/3/08
  • MKKUOLT
     WOW! What an amazing looking VEGAN recipe! I'm excited to see a good for me and good for Vegan recipe out here. I've made maddy's recipes before, and this is another winner, too! - 5/2/08
  • FOSTER1001
     Too many ingredients that I have never heard of or wouldn't even know where to find. - 7/3/09
  • MCDEANE52
     My first try with seitin ~ very tasty, thank you. - 1/18/09
  • JEANNETTE59
     Reduced or Low Sodium Tamari is available in the Asian Section of the International Food Aisle of Supermarkets. Mesclun Salad is also called Spring Salad available in the Produce Dept. I doubled the Seitan and found this served 2 nicely. Excellent. - 4/3/10
  • SEDFAFI
     Where do you find the greens and the seitan? I would love to try this as I'm eating less meat. - 7/3/09
  • WALKZWDOGZ
     In Asia, it's Seitan but Gluten is whole wheat flour that has had the starch
    and bran washed from it, leaving the protein as a
    rubbery substance known as gluten. It can be flavored many ways, freezes well, & is used as a meat analog. Hit Google for "gluten steaks". Versatile tasty stuff! - 10/29/10
  • TRAILTRIPPER
     For those who are vegan or vegetarian, make sure their isn't any chicken broth/boullion in the Spanish Rice mix.
    - 10/13/09
  • MPSWEET1
     I fixed this for dinner last night and the whole family enjoyed it. - 7/31/09
  • JVANAM
     A very good blend of flavors and textures. - 7/6/09
  • SUSAN3065
     i woulkd change mayo to olive oil use brown rice and loe sodium soy sauce should reduce salt quite a bit - 8/29/09
  • RAINBOWSKY119
     It was good taste. I will do it again. - 10/30/08
  • MODESTA
     where do you buy all these ingredients some are unfamilar to me? sounds like a really delicious meal - 7/3/09
  • IAMJILLA
     THIS SOUNDS GREAT! I WILL HAVE TO MAKE THIS ONE DAY THIS WEEK. - 3/8/09
  • JIM*S_QUEENIE
     Different for us, which is a good thing. Nice to have a dish that we haven't tried before. - 1/5/09
  • BETTYCAKES
     I will make this very soon. Sounds like a great combination, and I love spicy comfort food. Thanks Maddy_Avena! - 5/2/08
  • REALTOR15
     I have not made this because the sodium is way too high to be healthy! There is more sodium in one serving than I eat on most days. - 4/13/11
  • SUNSETINAZ
     Try Wild Oats or Sprouts for the ingredients or a health food store :- ) - 10/13/09
  • CRUNCH3
    What is Seitan?????????thanks much - 8/28/08
  • NGAIBRUCE
     We're always learning so I'll have to dig around and find out what I've been missing all these years with the "seitan". For all I know someone has probably fed me this at one time or another without my being aware! Just when you think you've tried it all, something like this sneaks up on you.Neat! - 1/25/10
  • TESSABOO71
     family loved it - 9/1/09



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