I Made A Vegan Steak For Meat Experts And This Happened!

You see this guy? He hates vegetables. He let you know in many different videos that I've made. However today I'm gonna try to fool him, because if there's one thing he loves is meat, especially juicy steaks. At the same time I have no idea what will happen to me in the end, but I thought this would be a good experiment to see if we can fool somebody to eating a vegan steak. And if my nephew can eat it anyone can. So let's begin. Now to make a homemade vegan steak it's very easy and here's how. Into a food processor you threw in some chickpeas, followed by tomato paste, some vital wheat, Dijon mustard, garlic powder, soy sauce, black pepper, vegetable stock, salt, close it up and process everything on high. Because as you're doing so it's going to become a dough. Now you want to go ahead and shape it up as best as you can to look like a steak. And as you can see the end color is not red, but we can fix that real quick. Into a bowl I added some soy sauce, followed by some maple syrup, smoked paprika and mixed everything together. As now all there's left to do is to paint over the steak. Then you want to bake it in the oven and you are left with a vegan steak. And as you can clearly see it is very noticeable that this does not look like a steak. And if I know my nephew he will spot this from a mile away. So it got me thinking how else can I fool him? And that's when I saw this on my supermarket, Beyond Beef. Now notice the ingredients on the back, pea protein. I'm pretty sure they're using chickpeas and honestly even though this does not smell like meat at least it looks like meat. And hopefully it's going to make a great steak for my nephew to try. But just having this by itself next to a regular steak is not gonna work. So here's what I came up with. The first thing to do was to go ahead and shape the beyond meat. Make it look like a New York strip as much as I could. Once I was done this is what it looks like. It is now ready to go. But as you can see here this is what real meat looks like. Perfectly well marbled and just perfect beautiful steaks. And putting all of them side by side you can clearly see that there's a huge difference. So let's fix this. I grabbed one steak and went ahead and passed it to the meat grinder. As you can see once everything was ground up this is what I was left with. Then I went ahead and shaped it up like a New York strip and in the end I was left with this. Kind of like a meatloaf steak. Hopefully he's not gonna get that suspicious because now to get these steaks ready the only thing left to do is to season them. For that I went with a good amount of salt followed by freshly ground black pepper and garlic powder. And I made sure to season the steaks properly. And just in case he's gonna get really upset I went ahead and made an incredible side dish for us today. These are some meatballs dumplings. Not only are they extremely delicious they are super simple to make. And here's how. Into a food processor I threw in some parsley, followed by white onions, garlic, jalapeno. Close that up blend everything on high. I added some ricotta cheese, followed by a good amount of ground beef, a little bit of salt, black pepper and Korean chili flakes. Blend everything once again and my meat was now ready. The only thing left was to put it together and for that I'm using old-fashioned dumplings. Shape them however you like. The best way for me is to leave a little bit of the meat exposed. You can see here once I was done this is what they look like. Now you need a little sauce to cook the dumplings and this one is super simple. Into a skillet I added some oil followed by garlic and shallots. Cook that up until I got a little bit of color then I added some marinara sauce. As soon as it brought up to temperature I added chicken stock. Mixed everything well and threw it right on top of the dumplings. Then into the oven it goes at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 35 minutes. Once the time is up I took it out added a little bit of sour cream right on top followed by parsley. Now this is today's side dish and I know my nephew is gonna love this one as it is real meat but we cannot say the same thing about the vegan steak. With that being said the only thing left to do is to go ahead and cook them. So to keep things fair I'll be pan searing the vegan steak and the ground beef one. To add additional flavor I will do so using butter and of course garlic, as the control steak is just gonna be straight up on the grill. Because now I say it is enough talking and it is time to see if I can make my nephew eat this vegan steak. So let's do it. All right everybody here we got our beautiful steaks a little side dish and my two taste tests. Are you guys hungry? Starving. That didn't sound very exciting what do you think how does it look? Oh it looks a little overdone. I think this is the first time that I can actually tell by looks that this is an experiment. That looks yellow. Don't worry about it sometimes yellow is a good thing. It's a yellow cow huh? Say yellow. Okay enough talking give me your honest opinion let me know how it tastes. I'm really curious to find out. Sounds good? We're gonna go this direction here today. Please dig in let's go. I want to know. It feels like it's been forever since I last tried a steak. I am super super excited to try this. I had one for breakfast. Okay. I'm not gonna lie. Enough talking let's give it a go. Cheers everybody. Cheers. The one I had for breakfast was not this good. Especially since it's been a while since I've had one. It tastes extra good. You taste you taste the salt on that? Oh I taste that salt baby. It's really soft there's very little resistance that you have to actually chew it. You can't get this at a restaurant. With all that being said that was an amazing steak let's go on and see if any one of them are better than that one. Sounds like a plan. Why are you laughing? Just by looks man it doesn't look that like it looks weird. I'm sorry like I I'm going in I'm expecting this to taste good. Look at you dissecting it. It doesn't even stay together. Well let's find out oh my bad. Enough talking. Cheers everybody. Cheers. It's a little different. A little. The texture is like meatloaf. Mm-hmm. The crust is nice. I think it tastes actually pretty good. Yeah. The consistency is 100% different. It doesn't scream steak it screams burger to me. Yeah. It's also like really garlicky I like that. I agree 100%. Tastes amazing but it's just a texture thing for me. All right enough I'm very excited for the last one let's dig in. Let's do this one. Why? No reason. Because it's yellow? Okay we'll go over this. These are my little take on little pasta and meatballs I guess or dumpling mix. I don't even know what to call this dish but at the same time I'm curious to find out what you guys think. Can I take more than one? You might want to take a lot more than one. Enough talking. Enough talking. Cheers. Cheers. Oh that's so good. The texture of this is so smooth. It's all really soft. Almost gooey too. Gooey chewy. Right? For me I think the best part about it is the actual meatball inside. The pasta is flavorful you bite through it. It has like a little bit of marinara sauce some cheese and stuff like that but the flavor of the beef is the star of the show and it brings it all together. Yeah I want more of this. I'm getting scared looking at the steak. Why? It's yellow. It looks like yellow. It looks like a curry. It's literally yellow. I'm literally looking it's yellow. Let's go for it. Enough talking. Let's dig in please. Are you excited Angel? Yeah man. How could I not be excited for this? Enough talking let's dig in. Cheers everybody. Cheers. Oh my god. It's not bad guys. I don't want to say it's bad. It's not bad. It's bad. It doesn't taste like steak. It doesn't have the texture of steak. It doesn't have the juiciness of steak. That's not steak. I will say this it is not bad. No. You're making a funny face but it's not bad everybody. It's edible. It's actually not bad. I'm actually pleasantly surprised. This steak right here was really good and then from here we went that way and it just went downhill. Went downhill right there. The best steak of the night was the control steak but I will say if you add a sauce to this last one I think it would make it much much better and much more enjoyable. I agree it will fake it because I'll tell you one thing this one right here is a regular Guga steak as you know. Then we got ground beef okay but it's a ground beef steak and then we got right here beyond meat. So I wanted to give it a try and see how it tastes as a steak. I thought it would be disgusting. That was like bad. Oh my god. But those are the results. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. We don't love it but it's not bad. It's doable you can eat that. It's doable. Yeah. That you could do. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did hit that thumbs up. If you're not a subscriber be sure to subscribe. Remember everything I use is always in the description down below. Thank you guys so much for watching. After years perfecting it it's finally available for purchase. Guga's Rub. My rub has been the go-to for many of you and now this new revamped formula is better than ever. It's amazing on beef, pork, lamb, chicken and my favorite burgers. This rub is what I use in 90% of everything I cook. Get yours now at shopgugafoods.com the link will be on the description. Guga's rub baby. Get yours now at shop.gugafoods.com link will be on the description. Thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one. Take care everybody. Bye-bye.