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BBQ Seitan Recipe with Jackfruit | Easy Vegan Ribs for the Grill

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This BBQ seitan recipe is made with jackfruit for ultimate texture. After baking, the jackfruit seitan is easy to grill for easy vegan ribs! Vegans and meat eaters alike can enjoy the delicious barbecue flavors of this delicious plant-based grilling recipe.

Wooden cutting board with sliced BBQ seitan and a small container of sour cream dip

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BBQ Seitan Recipe: How to Barbecue Seitan

Seitan is a fantastic meat alternative for vegans; it can be flavored however you like and has an amazingly chewy, meat-like texture!

With vegan grilling, a common concern is that the food won’t hold together on the barbecue. This isn’t the case with this recipe as seitan is firm enough to be grilled to perfection!

Before barbecuing seitan, it first needs to be baked in the oven. This step allows the seitan to cook and form a firm, chewy texture needed to hold together on the grill.

After the seitan bakes, slather it with BBQ sauce and grill it for that amazing BBQ seitan flavor. For this recipe, coat and grill each side of the seitan twice, or repeat for a third time if you like!

If attending an event like a barbecue, the seitan can be baked in advance and brought with you. It takes about 15-20 minutes to heat through from cold (depending on the temperature of the barbecue).

Sometimes the grill marks or cuts (to form the “ribs”) push too deep and end up going through the piece of seitan. No worry if this happens, just continue grilling two separate pieces.

Stack of jackfruit seitan slices on wooden board

Make Jackfruit Seitan Ribs

Jackfruit seitan creates fantastic texture, especially for vegan short ribs! Adding jackfruit to seitan creates a texture that pulls apart more easily because it breaks up gluten, the main component of seitan.

With jackfruit you’ll get a seitan that’s softer, but still firm enough to grill easily. It’s also satisfying and chewy enough to be meat-like!

Jackfruit pieces mimic the texture of a fattier piece of meat. Since ribs tend to be high in fat, the jackfruit does a nice job creating a vegan short rib texture.

Use a jackfruit canned in brine for this recipe (and most savoury jackfruit recipes).

Long board with sliced vegan "ribs" made of jackfruit seitan and grilled

Seitan Barbecue Sauce

The flavor of your BBQ seitan depends primarily on the type of barbecue sauce used.

While you can modify the flavors added to the seitan itself, the flavor of the BBQ sauce is by far the most prominent taste in this recipe.

Feel free to use your favorite store bought sauce or make your own homemade vegan BBQ sauce.

Hand dipping a slice of BBQ seitan into creamy dip

Plant-based Grilling Ideas

When moving to a plant-based or vegan diet, knowing what to grill on a nice summer day can be a challenge. Most traditional barbecue recipes centre entirely on animal products.

Store-bought vegan alternatives may be an option, but many vegan meat alternatives fall apart on the grill. Seitan is a great option for a vegan protein that grills easily. Blocks of tofu and tempeh are also delicious on the grill.

Hand holding up slice of plant based ribs dipped in white sauce

Some delicious plant-based grilling ideas are:

  • Corn on the cob
  • Tempeh
  • Tofu
  • Skewer loaded with veggies and tofu
  • Asparagus
  • Eggplant
  • Peaches
  • Pineapple rings
  • Portobello mushroom caps
  • Vegan hot dogs or sausages
  • Fingerling potatoes
  • Bell peppers
  • Zucchini

There are countless ways to flavor the ideas in the list above with different marinades and/ or sauces.

If you have tin foil, or a veggie tray for the barbecue, the options expand even more. It’s simple to fill a tin foil packet or veggie tray with whatever veggies you like, then add some seasonings and grill away!

Plant based barbecued "ribs" on board with one slice in front showing texture of the jackfruit seitan

How to Serve Vegan BBQ Seitan Ribs

This BBQ seitan ribs recipe is packed with protein and ideal to serve with grilled vegetables. Asparagus is a favorite in my house as well as green beans. Vegetable skewers or tin-foil wrapped potatoes are also great options.

To me, dipping delicious vegan BBQ recipes in something creamy is the perfect combination. Barbecue sauce, or almost anything spicy, pairs great alongside a mayonnaise, cashew or sour cream based dip.

You can use a store bought dip (as I did for these photos) or make your own.

Check out my recipe for a healthy vegan Caesar salad dressing or jazz up some vegan sour cream!

I hope you enjoy this recipe and if you share your creations on social media, tag @lettucevegout because I’d love to see what you make!

Wooden cutting board with sliced BBQ seitan and a small container of sour cream dip
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BBQ Seitan with Jackfruit (Vegan Ribs)

This recipe for jackfruit seitan is ideal for creating vegan short ribs. Since it holds together, BBQ seitan is the ultimate plant-based grilling recipe!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword BBQ seitan, Jackfruit seitan
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 6 Servings
Calories 331kcal

Equipment

  • Cutting Board
  • Knife
  • Tinfoil
  • Baking tray
  • Barbecue and barbecue utensils (tongs/ spatula/ BBQ sauce brush)
  • Large bowl

Ingredients

  • 2 C gluten flour (vital wheat gluten)
  • ¼ C nutritional yeast
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • ½ tsp celery seed
  • ½ tsp Herbamare seasoning (I used the spicy Herbamare)
  • Black pepper to taste
  • 3 tbsp tahini
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 2 tbsp ketchup
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 C vegetable broth
  • 1 C jackfruit (canned in brine)
  • 1 C BBQ sauce

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 °F.
  • Drain liquid from the can of jackfruit and finely dice jackfruit pieces (core, seeds and all). Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: 2 C gluten flour, ¼ C nutritional yeast, 1 tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp onion powder, 1 tsp smoked paprika, ½ tsp celery seed, ½ tsp Herbamare seasoning, pepper to taste.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients: 3 tbsp tahini, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp oil, 2 tbsp ketchup, 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 1 C vegetable broth. The tahini won’t fully mix in (there will be flecks of tahini and oil throughout, which is fine).
  • Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until a ball of dough forms. Stir the ingredients with a spoon. Use your hand to finish mixing when it becomes too doughy to stir.
  • Add 1 C chopped jackfruit into the mixture and knead until it’s well incorporated throughout. You want the jackfruit as dispersed as possible (no clumps of jackfruit in any one spot).
  • Dump the dough onto a large piece of tinfoil and shape into a flat rectangle. It can be however thick you like but 2-3 cm (around 1 inch) works well.
  • Carefully wrap the dough with the tinfoil as tightly as possible. Take a second sheet of tinfoil and wrap the dough a second time, placing the open edge of the tinfoil down onto the center of the new sheet to create a good seal.
  • Place the tinfoil-wrapped dough onto a baking tray and bake for 50 minutes.
  • Once out of the oven, allow to cool completely. Carefully unwrap the cooked seitan and place in the fridge for fast cooling. It’s helpful to allow this to sit in the fridge for a few hours or overnight if you have the time.
  • When ready to barbecue, make careful slices across the cooked seitan, halfway down and about 2 cm/ 1 inch apart. Then, brush BBQ sauce across the top of the seitan and work it down into these slices.
  • Heat the BBQ to about 500 °F. I use 3 burners on my barbecue (the 2 on the outer edge set to medium-high and the center one, which the seitan will be directly over, as low as possible).
  • Place the seitan on the barbecue, sauce side down. Brush the opposite side with BBQ sauce. Allow to cook for 5 minutes then flip. Sauce the side that’s now face up, cook for 5 minutes then flip. Repeat again so both sides are sauced and grilled twice.
  • Remove from the barbecue and slice into individual “ribs” for serving.

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Notes

Accuracy of nutrition information cannot be guaranteed (certain ingredients may not have all nutrients listed in the database); amounts may vary (and will vary depending on brands of ingredients used); all nutrition fact values rounded to the nearest whole number.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Serving (1/6 of recipe) | Calories: 331kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 36g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 1255mg | Potassium: 374mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 367IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 156mg | Iron: 4mg

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