Tofu

Tofu is eaten cooked or fresh with a sauce and is delicious in dishes such as miso soup, hot-pots and stir-fries. Made from ground soy beans, which are heated, filtered, and, with the addition of a gelling agent, hardened into evenly sized squares. Tofu comes in three basic types: kinugoshi-dofu (silk strained tofu), the original Japanese tofu, fine textured and eaten raw; momen-dofu (cotton strained tofu), which is rougher in texture; and yose-dofu (crumbled tofu): which is not formed into blocks and appears as though mashed. Tofu is an extremely nutritious food containing plenty of easy-to-digest vegetable protein, calcium, iron and Vitamin E.