Vegan Bacon and Havarti Stuffed Seitan

What’s better than seitan? Stuffed Seitan! This recipe uses our Super Big Batch of Garlicky Seitan or you can use your favorite seitan recipe. Sometimes you can get away with just using nutritional yeast flakes for some cheesy flavor in recipes like soups and sauces. For this kind of recipe you need something that melts into a gooey cheesy mess. And for that we have only one choice; Daiya.

We love the melted goodness of Daiya cheese on almost anything – as you could probably tell from our pancake recipe. Unlike some other cheeses Daiya actually melts instead of staying in little cubes of cheese-ish flavored sponges.


• 1 Batch of seitan
• 4 – 5 slices of Lightlife Smart Bacon
• 3 ounces of Daiya wedge style Havarti Cheese

1. Slice all of the seitan pieces in half – originally we tried to only slice ¾ of the way through so the seitan would be sort of like a sub so it would have a hinge but they just fell apart for the most part.
2. Arrange all of the seitan pieces in a baking dish. Place half of a slice of bacon on one half of each seitan.
3. Slice the Diaya and place a slice on each piece of seitan opposite the bacon.
4. Broil in the oven until the Daiya begins to melt and is golden brown.

We served these with our butternut squash soup – there may have been some dipping of the seitan into the butternut squash soup which only added more flavor.

Pancakes Topped with Bacon and Daiya Cheese

One of our favorite vegan cookbook authors is Isa Chandra Moskowitz. For our breakfast this morning we used her pancake recipe from Vegan Brunch as the starting point. If you have your own favorite pancake recipe you can certainly use that instead (but why not just use this delicious recipe).

Sweet pancakes are tasty. We enjoy chocolate chip pancakes just as much as the next person. We especially enjoy pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes or waffles. Sometimes breakfast just needs to be a little more flavorful and a little less sweet.

We were in the mood for something cheesy this morning. Usually when that mood strikes we will make a tofu scramble or mixed veggie wrap. Today we decided savory pancakes were the way to go. We still had some vegan bacon left from our seitan last night, so why not have some of that too. On the side? Not this time; this time we made cheesy bacon pancakes. And they were great! To make them, you'll need:

• One completed pancake recipe in a mixing bowl
• 8 slices of vegan bacon
• 1/4 package of Daiya wedge style Havarti cheese
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic

1. Put together your pancake recipe of choice and leave in the mixing bowl. Add the 2 tablespoons of minced garlic and stir to combine.
2. Heat up a skillet on medium heat.
3. Dice up bacon slices and cheese. Portion into eight pancake applications (a little more or less depending on how many pancakes your recipe makes, we made eight pancakes).
4. Spray skillet with cooking spray or rub with oil/butter.
5. Spoon pancake mix into skillet and sprinkle bacon and Havarti on top of the pancake.
6. Flip the pancake over when you start to see bubbles forming in the center of the pancake.
7. Cook on the second side for about 2 minutes until golden brown.
8. Serve and enjoy delightful savory pancakes.


If you make these, we hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Let us know if you make something different And deliciously tasty, because we'd love to try it.