Seitan

Seitan is a food made from wheat that is really, really stretchy. Imagine playing with playdough and making long, squishy strings – that's what seitan looks like. It's also sometimes called "wheat meat" or "wheat protein."

To make seitan, you start by mixing wheat flour with water to make a dough. Then you knead and squeeze the dough really hard to get all the starch out. What's left is a stretchy, rubbery mass that kind of looks like raw chicken, but it's completely meat-free!

You can cook seitan in all sorts of ways – you can fry it, bake it, grill it, or even simmer it in a yummy broth. Seitan is often used as a meat substitute in vegetarian and vegan recipes because it has a similar texture to meat, but it's much healthier and kinder to animals.

So the next time you see seitan on a menu or in a recipe, you'll know it's a cool meat-free food made from wheat that's stretchy like playdough!