different between tempeh vs seitan

English

Etymology

From Indonesian tempe, possibly from Old Javanese tumpi (a food made from starch and tempeh), or Indonesian tapai (“fermentation”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?t?mpe?/

Noun

tempeh (countable and uncountable, plural tempehs)

1. An Indonesian food made from partially-cooked fermented soybeans, mixed with a fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus).
   • 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 1:

     The leaves were of use only to the tempeh factories, which collected them every night.

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French

Noun

tempeh m (plural tempehs)

1. tempeh

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempeh/
• Rhymes: -empeh, -peh, -eh

Noun

tempeh (Jawi spelling ???????, plural tempeh-tempeh, informal 1st possessive tempehku, impolite 2nd possessive tempehmu, 3rd possessive tempehnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of tempe.

English

Etymology

Romaji of the Japanese ???? which was coined by philosopher George Ohsawa in 1961. Ohsawa also occasionally used the kanji term ?? from ? (“fresh; raw”) and ?, the first character in ?? (tanpaku, “protein”).

In Japan, wheat gluten itself is usually referred to as ? (fu, “wheat bran, gluten”), while seitan in particular is generally written in katakana as ????. Another common term for this is ??????? (“gluten meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?t?n/, /?se?t?n/, /?se?tan/
• Rhymes: -e?t?n
• Homophone: Satan

Noun

seitan (uncountable)

1. Specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
   • 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin ?ISBN, page 28

     Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.

Derived terms

• seitanic

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References

Further reading

• seitan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wheat gluten (Q943935)
• Cookbook:Seitan on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
• Seitan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “seitan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Eastin, Setian, Teians, anties, satiné, seatin', sentai, staine, teasin', tenias, tineas, tisane

Basque

Numeral

seitan

1. inessive indefinite of sei

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sei?t?n/, [?s?e?i?t??n]
• Rhymes: -eit?n
• Syllabification: sei?tan

Noun

seitan

1. seitan

Declension

Anagrams

• asetin, astein, naiset, satein, tasein

Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

seitan m (invariable)

1. seitan

Japanese

Romanization

seitan

1. R?maji transcription of ????
2. R?maji transcription of ????