Shojin Ryori is entirely vegan and based on the concept of five flavours, five cooking methods and five colours. A meal should include grilled, deep fried, pickled, tofu and soup dishes.
The white square is Goma-Dofu (Sesame Tofu) and is made of roasted and ground white sesame seeds boiled together with starch from the powdered arrowroot. If it tasted of sesame seeds it would be glorious but somehow it doesn't - we found this with the ground sesame we had previously. I'll stick to whole sesame seeds next time!
Considering there was no meat fish cheese or egg in the meal the dishes were very inventive. Some were jelly-like, some were sponge-like, some veg was pickled, there were tasty sauces, there were colourful things floating in our clear soup. And at the end if it all there was rice and roasted green tea :-)
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