Hot Chipotle Veggie Sausages

[spottie]

My goal here was to get el cheapo Field Roast Mexican Chipotle Sausage style sausages. If you haven't been fortunate enough to try Field Roast vegetarian sausages, I really recommend you try them. They are very very good, and raise the benchmark for veggie sausages. However, the lil puppies aren't cheap. If I recall correctly, they are about

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[spottie]

I've been making Italian sausages with a variant of the above method. Ingredient list changes slightly:

In a large bowl put:

2 cups vegetarian refried beans (or squooshed beans)
8 cloves minced garlic

Then add 4 T olive oil
6-8 T soy sauce
3 T fennel seeds, crushed
2 T crushed red pepper (like in pizza shakers)- for hot sausage
a whole bunch of oregano
some basil, because basil is good in anything

Add
1 32 oz box veggie broth (or any sort of veggie broth equalling 4 Cups)
1 22 oz bag Bob's Red Mill vital wheat gluten (or any 4 cups gluten)
1 cup nutritional yeast

You can halve or quarter the recipe, but it takes the same time and effort (granted not much) to make 24 sausages as it would to make 6 or 12. So why not!?

The 2 T of crushed red pepper made for a hot italian sausage - you could make sweet italian sausage substituting paprika I'd imagine.

I ran out of oregano the last time and used Italian seasoning, and that was fine.

When I work out the right seasonings for Bratwurst, i will make some of that. As long as you stay with the main mix of gluten flour and nutritional yeast and liquid you can substitute the other stuff. Two cups of beans could be two cups of potatoes perhaps. I used canned refried beans because I'm lazy :) Or you could use part beans and part minced dried apple. Sweet potato and apple sounds like a good combination. I'm making myself hungry!