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Finger Lickin' BBQ Ribs

Source of Recipe

Veggies Unite!


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List of Ingredients

1/2 cup vital wheat gluten
1 ounce nutritional yeast flakes
3/4 ounce wheat flour -- (up to 1)
2 tablespoons peanut butter or tahini
1 vegetable bouillon cube -- dissolved in
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon onion powder
1/2 tablespoon paprika
1 1/2 tablespoons vegan margarine - melted
1 bottle good bbq sauce


Recipe

Pre-heat oven @ 375 degrees.

Dissolve vegetable cube in boiling water. Let cool. Mix all dry ingredients in bowl. Add water and mix well, kneading into a ball. Mixture will be very dry and stiff, but don't over mix it. Just kind of pull it all together and turn it out onto the counter top and shape it into a square 5" x 5".

Mix peanut butter or tahini w / melted margarine, until well mixed and smooth. Pour 1/2 of mixture into bowl, put "ribs" on top of mixture then pour remaining mixture on top of "ribs". Work the peanut butter mixture into "ribs" by just pushing your finger tips into the dough, about 1 min., keeping the dough in its square shape. Remove dough to cutting board and cut with a very sharp knife into 1/2" strips, now cut the strips in half again - lengthwise!

Spray cookie tray with Pam. Put "ribs" on tray, about an inch apart (they will puff a bit while cooking). Bake for 20 min @ 375 turning about 1/2 way through. Ribs should be lightly brown and crunchy when they come out of the oven.

Pour BBQ sauce into wide sauce pan and heat on moderate flame on stove top until bubbly. Put ribs into sauce and simmer about 5 - 10 min. At this point you can add some hot sauce or honey or liquid smoke to the BBQ sauce to give the ribs a different flavor. I leave the ribs in the sauce until ready to serve, put them on a cookie pan w / a little extra BBQ sauce and broil about 5" from the heat until they carmelize a bit, but be careful not to burn the sugar, as it can burn almost instantly! If the ribs are cold I heat them a bit in the sauce pan before I broil them.

I know it seems like a complicated recipe, but it's really not. A couple of tries and you'll be a pro and enjoying a traditional meat recipe without harming any living creatures!!

Serves: 2 - 3 Preparation time: 30 - 40 min