The Best Vegan Fried Chik'n Ever

If you could create a plant-based substitute using many of the same techniques in southern cooking without compromise texture or flavor, why would you ever look back? The veganized frying technique I learned as a teenager cooking in the back of a famous Drive-In.

Ingredients: 

Step 1:

Wet-

• 1.5 Cups Vegetable Broth (I used Imagine Vegetarian No-Chicken Broth)
• 1/2 Cup Mashed Chickpeas
• 1/2 Cup Chickpea Soaking Liquid 
• 1 Tablespoon Chickpea Miso 
• 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Dry-

• 1.75 Cups Vital Wheat Gluten
• 1/4 Cup Sweet Sorghum Flour
• 1/3 Cup Nutritional Yeast
• 2 Tablespoons Potato Starch 
• 2 Tablespoons Simpy Organic All Purpose Seasoning
• 2 Teaspoons Sea Salt
• 2 Quarts Vegetable Broth For Boiling

Step 2:

• 2 Cups Nondairy Milk
• 2 Tablespoons Your Favorite Hot Sauce
• 1.5 Cups Unbleached All Purpose Flour
• 1 Cup Cornstarch 
• 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
• 1 Tablespoon Onion Powder
• 1 Tablespoon Paprika
• 1 Tablespoon Lemon Pepper Seasoning 
• 2 Quarts Vegetable Oil For Frying (I used Canola Oil)

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, thoroughly mix your vital wheat gluten, sorghum flour, potato starch, nutritional yeast, all-purpose seasoning, & sea salt. 

For full instructions you can Visit: @chefshawnharrison

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