I was looking at alternative sources of protein that aren't imported from abroad, ie soy,lentils,chickpeas etc and that can be grown in this country and thought of oats: they can have a high (8-20% protein) and complete content of protein, but to get the 'RDA' of 50g you'd need to eat 250-600g of it a day, and I was wondering if it's possible to make a sort of wheat free seitan with it.
Either by getting oat flour and soaking it in water to leach out all the carbohydrates, or a way I've heard it done with tofu is to boil soymilk until it forms thick skins and take them off, I'm thinking it might be possible with oats as well, will have to test to see if oats boiled for ages will form a skin.
Or, link shows that you can also make tempeh with the oats, not sure how difficult it is to get the culture/grow it but it could be done, also for what to do with the leftover carbs in the oats after the protein's taken out they could be used to grow mushrooms/mycelium for further protein out of them.
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