How can I create a chicken substitute?

There are a few recipes on the Vegan Dad blog for veggie chicken from scratch:

• Chick'n Burgers (but read the comments also)
• Chick'n Nuggets

Chicken-flavored vegetarian broth is usually a key ingredient. You can find a lot of them on Amazon, and sometimes in health food stores. I usually use Edward and Son's Not Chick'n bouillon cubes, just because they sell them in a store on my block.

There's also a company called eco-cuisine that sells mixes, but I haven't tried them.

For other pre-made options May Wah in NYC supplies meat substitutes to a ton of vegan restaurants, and Gardein has some great veggie chick'n scallopini cutlets you can use for a lot of recipes.

Seitan (aka. wheat gluten/vital wheat gluten/wheat meat/fu*) can be used to make chik'n nugget type chicken, but not as in breast or thigh, etc. Recipes abound on the internets.

• The gist of using it involves bringing together compositional ingredients (basically the gluten) and flavoring, mixing to develop it into a rubbery mass, forming it into and using as a dough (i.e. making chik'n nugget cutouts).

*There are differences between these, but they are all basically the same beast.

You could try Chinese dry tofu (Dòu g?n) as a starting point. It is nutritionally good and has a 'meatlike' texture.

http://www.thetofuboutique.com/?p=454&page=4

For stewing, I love Green Jackfruit -canned or frozen. Fooled me entirely in a Malaysian curry. Needs long gentle simmering in flavorful broth/sauce. Flakes fleshily when forked.

Beancurd sticks are those shrivelled yellow plastic batons in cellaphane packs that cook up first rubbery then slowly disintegrating to desired tenderness. Forgot it once in a hotpot for 2 hrs and it was chicken soup!

I know someone had already mentioned Chick'n nuggets, but you could also try the Quorn brand "chicken" items. They have a very similar texture to chicken. But if you are looking for a veggie burger, then i found this great recipe for Black Bean cakes. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/spicy-black-bean-cakes/detail.aspx and they are pretty easy and delicious too!

For 'chicken' strips I often use tofu that has been pressed for a really long time so it has less of a squishy texture, then roll it in flour paprika and salt and flash fry it until it's golden brown and crispy on the outside.