Bold red bell peppers sizzle in a hot skillet with thinly sliced sweet onions, chilies, black pepper and spices. Toss in some vegan seitan strips and melt in some savory vegan cheddar cheese. Toast a fluffy, fresh hoagie roll and pile in the Philly Cheese filling. Accents of fresh green cilantro on top, a few juicy tomato slices too. Your Vegan philly Cheese Sandwich is served. Crave this..

Special Request. I don’t often get special requests from my husband. He usually just happily gobbles down whatever new or classic dishes I plop in front of him at dinnertime. But a few days ago we were reminiscing about one of our old favorite vegan delivery spots in NYC – ‘Snice. He used to always get their vegan philly-style seitan sandwich. So simple – yet so delicious – with seitan, peppers, onion and vegan melty cheese.

Vegan Philly Cheese Please!

He offered up the challenge .. so I happily delivered.

Speedy Dinner.

This was an easy and fun dinner feast. I served our sandwiches with a light spring mix + avocado salad and some sunset sangria on the side. My sunrise sangria mix shown in the photo includes 1 part fresh orange juice, 1 part pomegranate juice + 1/2 orange (sliced) + 1/2 apple (chopped). Then you add it to red wine as you’d like. Serve over ice.

My vegan Philly Cheese Sandwich is made using farmer’s market red bell peppers, a few green Anaheim chilies, some mild hatch chilies (canned), sweet onions, pepper, spices, extra virgin olive oil, a hoagie roll and a nice layer of melted vegan cheese.

Teese it. Since the cheese on a Philly Cheese is supposed to be melty, orange, cheddar and “kind of like CheezWhiz.” (Or so I was told.) I opted for Teese vegan cheese. It melts in a flash and has a very “low brow” feel to it. However, Daiya Pepper Jack or Follow Your Heart Cheddar would also work.

Teese comes in a tube and you squeeze it out. It melts in seconds on a hot skillet – over top the veggies and seitan.

Vegan Cheese?

These days there are so many vegan cheese options to try. Check out my big vegan cheese review here.

Seitan. Classic Meat-Free ‘Meat.’

I bought some easy seitan strips, WestSoy brand. For a gluten-free option, substitute with sliced portobello mushrooms – use gluten free bread too.

You could also use strips of tofu or tempeh. Or you could even make your own seitan using vital wheat gluten flour – if you want to go all Martha Stewart on me.