Mock Beef Loaf

Ingredients

• 2 cups ground gluten

• 1 cup ground mushrooms

• 1 onion, minced

• 1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce

• 1 small can peas

• 1 small box raisins

• 1/2 cup chopped sweet pickles

• 2 tablespoons green pepper

• 1 can crushed pineapple

• 1 cup crumbs

• 1 teaspoon crushed sage

• Salt

• 2 hard-cooked eggs

Procedure

• Combine all ingredients except pineapple and eggs.

• Grease well a loaf pan.

• Line bottom with slices of hard-boiled eggs and then with crushed pineapples.

• Pack well gluten on top of it.

• Bake in a moderate oven 350ºF. until cooked.

• Serve with ketchup.

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Ground Gluten Lumpia

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ground gluten

• 1 onion, sliced

• 1 medium-sized tomato

• 1 small box raisins

• 2 potatoes, finely cubed

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 20 lumpia wrappers

• 1/2 cup oil

• Salt

Procedure

• Heat oil in frying pan and saute the garlic, onion and tomato.

• Add potatoes and ground gluten and cook till done.

• Add raisins and season to taste.

• Transfer to shallow plate and cool.

• Drop 1 tablespoon mixture on each lumpia wrapper; fold and fry in hot oil.

• Serve with sauce. 

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Gluten-Tokwa Relleno

Ingredients

• 6 thin slices of gluten 6" by 4"

• 1 cup mashed tokwa (tofu)

• 1/4 cup raisins

• 1 small onion, minced

• 1/4 cup chopped, stuffed olives

• 2 hard boiled eggs, chopped

• 2 ripe tomatoes, sliced

• 2 tablespoons chopped pickles

• 1 can peas

• 2 tablespoons ketchup

• 2 tablespoons butter

• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Procedure

• Saute onions, add tomatoes, catsup; simmer for 5 minutes in slow fire.

• Add tokwa, raisins, olives, pickles, eggs, and pepper.

• Cook over slow fire, stirring constantly for 5 minutes more. Remove from fire.

• Put a tablespoonful or two of the mixture in each gluten slice and roll.

• Dip in eggs and crumbs. Fry.

• Slice 1/2 inch wide. Serve with desired sauce.

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Arroz a la Filipina

 Ingredients

• 1 cup boiled malagkit (glutinous or sticky rice)

• 1 cup boiled rice

• 1 cup sliced gluten

• 3 cloves garlic, crushed

• Small onion, sliced

• 3 ripe tomatoes, sliced

• 3 tablespoons oil

• 2 medium-sized red and green peppers, cut into strips

• 1 small package raisins

• 1 hard-cooked egg

• 2 tablespoons atsuwete (Annatto), soaked in small amount of water

• Salt to taste

Procedure

• Saute the garlic, onion, tomatoes, and gluten.

• Add salt (and MSG - optional) to taste. Add sliced pepper. Cook for a few minutes.

• Add atsuwete water for coloring, then boiled rice, malagkit and raisins.

• Stir mixture from time to time to prevent burning. Continue cooking on low heat.

• Garnish with slices of hard-cooked eggs, and red and green pepper.

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