St. Paddy's Day Corned Beef and Cabbage

Happy St. Paddy's Day! Hooray for all the snakes leaving Ireland (or just for green beer and drinking outside!!). What is St. Paddy's Day without celebrating the cuisine of the Irish with some corn beef and cabbage? I don't normally use this blog as a soap box for veganism- I just like posting recipes. SOOO- all I want to say to people who think veganism takes away from tradition is BOO YAH! I'm vegan AND Irish AND I made corn beef and cabbage and no animals had to die. SO THERE.

Okay- recipe time!

• 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
  
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 head of cabbage, chopped
• 4 or so carrots, cut into circles
  
• 4 cups veggie broth
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 Seitan loaf (use my recipe!!), cut into bite sized pieces
• 2 Tablespoons flour

1. Saute the onion, carrots, and garlic in Olive Oil
2. After the onion, carrots, and garlic are soft, add the veggie stock, seitan, and cabbage. Let the cabbage reduce down. I like my cabbage to have a little crunch left, but cook it however you like it.
3. After the veggies are cooked the way you like them, use a slotted spoon to remove everything except the broth (there will probably be little bits of garlic, etc left in the broth- that's totally fine)
4. Now for the gravy. Add the flour to a couple tablespoons of cold water, stir until it is dissolved, and add to the broth (if you add the flour directly to the hot broth, it will form clumps)
   
5. Let the gravy cook, stirring constantly, until it thickens up. Pour it over the seitan/veggie mixture and there you have it! Serve with some roasted potatoes and Irish Soda Bread (which is a recipe for another day- mainly because it gives me an excuse to make it again)