Simple Soy Bean Salad: Applying Shōjin Ryōri Principles to Mediterranean Cuisine

Описание: Shōjin ryōri—Japanese Buddhist temple cuisine—teaches that how you prepare food shapes what the body receives.

In this demonstration, I apply the principles of Japanese Buddhist cuisine to a Mediterranean bean salad, showing how ancient techniques solve modern dietary problems: creating satisfying texture and flavor without relying on excess salt or fat.

What You'll Learn:

◎ The Jabara-giri (Snake Belly Cut): A technique that creates surface area for dressing penetration—flavor through form, not force.

◎ Adapting the Gokun principle: Why I include garlic here despite its absence in strict temple cuisine, and what this teaches about contextual mindfulness

◎ The Rule of Five in practice: How color, texture, and cutting method create balance on the plate

This is not fusion cooking. This is the application of 800-year-old culinary philosophy to cuisines that you already know and ingredients that you have on hand. Shōjin ryōri is not a collection of Japanese recipes—it is a framework for seeing any ingredient as an opportunity for nourishment and contemplation.

Through this series on Italian Shōjin Ryōri, I want to show an easy path forward, helping you to make sustainable change, rooted in wisdom for body, mind, and spirit.

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