Vegan White Protein

There are many meat replacements on the vegan shelves of supermarkets. Take your pick from things formed to look like bacon (fake-on?), chicken bits, steaks and burgers. Some of them are high quality and use fresh ingredients but almost all of them need high levels of processing to be made. That's why we came up with our own vegan protein recipe. 

You can make this quite easily from store cupboard staples - and in the dry ingredients don't be put off if there's a herb or spice you don't have handy. Simply replace it with something else. The result won't change too much. We thought long and hard about the best way to do this. 

We wanted something that gave high levels of protein, a full set of essential amino acids (the building blocks of protein), was simple to make, could be frozen if needed - and still fulfilled our key messages of having the right temperature, texture and appearance. 

One of the things we decided to do was include stripped mushrooms to the base dough - this gives a pleasing 'bite' to the protein while allowing it to still be malleable enough to shaped into portions that can look like faux chicken breasts, burgers, or even be roasted whole as a meat replacement for Sunday lunch. We really enjoyed creating this - and hope you enjoy it too, whether you're a meat eater or not!