Zen Style Vegetable Cooking - Shojin Ryori #5 Vegetarian Style Unagi

What is Shojin Ryori?
Shojin Ryori (精進料理) is the Japanese term for Zen vegetarian cooking. "Shojin" means devotion, "Ryori" means cooking or cuisine.
Traditionally, Shojin Ryori is cooked without meat, fish or seafood, eggs, or dairy products. Shojin Ryori also excludes strong smelling plants such as onions, garlic, leeks, and chives, collectively known as the "gokun", in their ingredients. This is because these pungent foods are believed to excite senses and disturb the peacefulness of the mind that Buddhists seek to attain.
Dogen Zenji who is the founder of Soto Zen viewed meal taking, indispensable to our daily life, as an extremely important act. In “Tenzo Kyokun” ("Instructions for the Zen Cook"), he describes the responsibility and the necessary attitude of those who prepare meals. In “Fushuku Hanpo" ("The Dharma of Taking Food"), he explains the manner and state of mind for eating meals.
There are important virtues to cook Shojin Ryori in Tenzo Kyokun. The "three virtues" ("santoku") of food are: (1) light and soft, (2) pure and clean, and (3) in accordance with the rules, i.e. the dietary restrictions that pertain to alcohol, meat, alliums, etc. The "six flavors" ("rokumi") are (1) bitter, (2) sour, (3) sweet, (4) hot, (5) salty, and (6) bland.
Since we receive the precious lives of animals and plants as food, we should eat in a way that we can make the very best use of them.
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[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

The best part was that no eels were harmed in the making of this video. I love eels, they're so cute with their goofy grins. You can't go wrong with deep-fried tofu.

[@elsalisa146]

Arigato, beautiful video. Looking forward to making the tofu unsgi.

[@FeliciaKrismanta]

Love it! I made this today and it turned out awesome. I mixed some turmeric on the tofu taro mixture to make it yellow like the real unagi. Please keep the recipes coming

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This is really a very good channel and today's recipe look fairly easy to follow. I have been making the other recipes and they all work so well! Thank you very much! In Gassho 🙏

[@sureshchandraannu8146]

How to make fu gluten? Please tell us!

[@josephlai9759]

Thank you for sharing. Simple and good. Except I would not use so much sugar.

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I love your channel, please upload more cooking videos when you have time. Thank you!

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W ASMR I love this video it was amazing

[@elsalisa146]

Unagi.

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Muito bom . Obrigado. Fique em paz.

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[@lilshudo]

Thank you so much for posting these recipes and for the lessons of how to eat with mindfulness! Gassho.

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