Abstract: A process for producing a vegetable food which is alternative to meat, which process consists of the steps of providing a mixture consisting essentially of 45 to 99.9% by weight of gluten and 0.1 to 55% by weight of a flour selected from the group consisting of cereal flours, legume flours and mixtures thereof, admixing said mixture of gluten and flour with water or vegetable broth, in a ratio of 1 kg of said mixture per 0.8 to 1.0 liter of water or vegetable broth, kneading the admixture until a dough is obtained, stuffing the dough into synthetic casings, which are closed with clips or laces at their ends, so as to obtain shaped pieces, cooking the thus-obtained shaped pieces for 105 to 120 minutes, during which time the dough expands and finds room by lengthening, and a meat-like fibrous structure develops, wherein fibers show a moderate orientation in the longitudinal direction and, in certain portions, a twisted orientation.