seitan
See also: Seitan
English
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was coined in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese in the early 1960s by philosopher George Ohsawa to refer to wheat gluten as used in Ohsawa's macrobiotic system of cooking and health. The exact derivation is uncertain. The first syllable may be from 生 (sei, “life”), 正 (sei, “proper, correct”), or 製 (sei, “made of”), while the second syllable is from 蛋 (tan, from 蛋白 (tanpaku, “protein”)). In Japan, wheat gluten itself is usually referred to as 麩 (fu, “wheat bran, gluten”), while seitan in particular is generally written in katakana as セイタン.
Pronunciation
Noun
seitan (uncountable)
- Specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
- 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin →ISBN, page 28
- Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.
- 2007 July 13, C. J. Hughes, “Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival”, in New York Times[1]:
- Fifty people […] ordered from a diverse menu that included vegan options like wheatgrass shots ($4) and seitan cutlets ($16).
- 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin →ISBN, page 28
Derived terms
Translations
wheat gluten
Further reading
- seitan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- seitan (Q943935)
- Template:projectlink
- Category:Seitan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “seitan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
seitan
Declension
Inflection of seitan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | seitan | seitanit | |
genitive | seitanin | seitanien | |
partitive | seitania | seitaneja | |
illative | seitaniin | seitaneihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | seitan | seitanit | |
accusative | nom. | seitan | seitanit |
gen. | seitanin | ||
genitive | seitanin | seitanien | |
partitive | seitania | seitaneja | |
inessive | seitanissa | seitaneissa | |
elative | seitanista | seitaneista | |
illative | seitaniin | seitaneihin | |
adessive | seitanilla | seitaneilla | |
ablative | seitanilta | seitaneilta | |
allative | seitanille | seitaneille | |
essive | seitanina | seitaneina | |
translative | seitaniksi | seitaneiksi | |
abessive | seitanitta | seitaneitta | |
instructive | — | seitanein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese
Noun
seitan m (uncountable)
Japanese
Romanization
seitan
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