SMOKY CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS
VEGAN POULTRY
INGREDIENTS :
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Drumsticks :
2 cans (500-550 g/19-20oz ) jackfruit, young green, in brine
1,5 cups light vegetable stock
2 tbsp gram flour or soy flower, mixed with 4 tbps water
1/2 cup vital wheat gluten
2 tsp nutritional yeast flakes
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp Danwood Liqiud Smoke®
16 sheets of round rice paper
8 cinnamon sticks
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Marinade for the drumsticks :
4 tbsp Danwood Smoked Oil®
4 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp maple syrup
1/2 tsp Danwood Smoky Powder®
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp curry powder (Madras)
1/4 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp paprika
1 tsp salt
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Wedges and oven-roasted veggies :
4 different roots (carrots, beet roots, parsnip …)
6 medium sized potatoes
1/4 cup Danwood Smoked Oil®
1 tsp rosemary, dried
2,5 tsp paprika
1 pinch chilli powder
1,5 tsp salt
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INSTRUCTIONS :
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Drumsticks:
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- Rinse the jackfruit. Cut off the hard edges of the jackfruit flesh. Squeeze the jackfruit flesh, so the brine comes out.
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- Bring the vegetable stock to a boil in a large pan. Add the jackfruit and let it simmer for about 15 minutes, until the jackfruit has fallen apart into it’s streaks and all the stock is absorbed. Stir often in between and press onto the jackfruits with a wooden spoon, so they come apart easier.
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- Take it from the stove and let it cool off.
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Mix the vital wheat gluten with the yeast flakes, salt and onion powder.
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- Stir the Danwood Liquid Smoke® and the gram flour batter into the jackfruit.
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- Gradually sprinkle and knead the vital wheat gluten into the jackfruit.
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- Rinse a clean kitchen towel with cold water and spread it on a flat surface.
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- Fill a large bowl with cold water. Place two sheets of rice paper on top of each other and hold them into the water for about a minute, until the rice paper has become soft.
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- Spread the ricepaper on the wet towel. Use a pair of scissors to cut out a piece, that is about 1/4 of the papers size.
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- Take a cinnamon stick and about 1/8 of the jackfruit flesh and form a drumstick around the stick. Don’t cover all the stick doing so, let the ‘bone’ stick out of the flesh.
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- Wrap the wet rice paper around the drumstick to create it’s skin.
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- If you really dislike cinnamon (it just releases very little of it’s taste into the drumstick), you can use wooden skewers or wooden ice cream sticks instead.
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- Stir together all ingredients for the marinade. Generously brush the drumsticks with the marinade.
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Wedges and oven roasted veggies:
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- Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F) top and bottom heat.
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- Mix Danwood Smoked Oil® with rosemary and the the spices.
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- Thoroughly rinse the potatoes and vegetables, then cut the potatoes into wedges and the vegetables into thick stripes.
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- Turn in the spiced oil and spread on a baking tray.
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Place the drumsticks on top of the vegetables and place the tray in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 30 minutes.
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- Turn the chicken legs and bake for another 20-30 minutes until the desired colour of the skin is achieved and the vegan chicken drumsticks are nicely crisp.
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- Enjoy your meal!
The smoky and spicy drumsticks are so delicious with their tender flesh made from jackfruit and seitan .