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Not indigenous, but similarly simple is TVP.
You boil it in vegetable broth, press out a bit of the water and then you can prepare it like meat.
If you can get it in steak shape and sear it in a pan, it does taste quite a lot like steak, basically because of the Maillard reaction making the protein taste fried, and because TVP is similarly chewy.
Doesn't it come on clumps? How do you shape it into a solid?
Where I live, I can buy it in four different sizes/shapes, basically bolognese, meatballs, strips and small steaks.
Pretty sure, you can't shape it yourself, but the smaller sizes are cool, too. I usually don't sear those, but just cook them (often times I'll just throw them into the noodle water when the noodles are mostly done), and then I'll mix noodles and TVP and e.g. tomato sauce all into a big pot.
That way, they taste more like wheat, but you still get something chewy.
Alas, the vegan grocery I use only has it in clumps :/