{"id":2386,"date":"2010-12-24T08:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2010-12-24T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T13:44:18","slug":"very-homemade-vegan-hot-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"Very homemade vegan hot dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-hot-dogs-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vegan meat analogs are becoming a staple around here. By varying the texture and spices, different analogs are possible: breakfast sausage, meat loaf, chicken nuggets, and, most recently, hot dogs. The texture can be varied by changing the proportion of the three basic ingredients: mashed soybeans, wheat gluten, and ground nuts (I usually use Brazil nuts). For example, brazil nuts are great in vegan meatloaf. But when a chewier texture is desired, I omit or reduce the nuts and increase the gluten. The process is the same as the <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2293\">vegan sausages<\/a> that I described last month.<\/p>\n<p>The vegan hot dogs were a mixture of mashed soybeans, gluten, and garbanzo flour. I seasoned the mixture with dried onion, dried garlic, paprika, and ketchup. Some Liquid Smoke would have helped. That&#8217;s now on my shopping list.<\/p>\n<p>I served the hot dogs with homemade rolls, homemade sauerkraut, chopped onions, and lots of mustard and ketchup.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m aware that gluten is deprecated these days. For the small percentage of the American population that is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gluten\">gluten intolerant<\/a> (less than 1 percent), I understand that. But for the rest of us, gluten is (and for thousands of years has been) an excellent and important food. I am not among those who demonize wheat.<\/p>\n<p>I made the hot dogs for the day before Christmas Eve. For Christmas Eve dinner, I plan to make something a little more chickeny. But we&#8217;ll be eating soybeans and gluten, not Ruth, Chastity, or Patience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-hot-dogs-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-hot-dogs-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-hot-dogs-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A-hot-dogs-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-hot-dogs-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegan meat analogs are becoming a staple around here. By varying the texture and spices, different analogs are possible: breakfast sausage, meat loaf, chicken nuggets, and, most recently, hot dogs. The texture can be varied by changing the proportion of the three basic ingredients: mashed soybeans, wheat gluten, and ground nuts (I usually use Brazil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Very homemade vegan hot dogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}