Grilled Eggplant with Miso Paste
Grilled Eggplant with Miso Paste

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Miso and eggplant is a gorgeous combination of flavours. If you've never tried it before, you're in for a treat. The traditional Japanese way of making this is not grilled, it is served with the eggplant sautéed and draped with a miso sauce which is simply a thinner version of the miso glaze (see notes for directions).

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have grilled eggplant with miso paste using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Grilled Eggplant with Miso Paste:
  1. Take 1 a little big eggplant (remove the stem, cut in half lengthwise, prick holes in a whole cut end of a eggplant with a fork.)
  2. Make ready Miso sauce:
  3. Make ready * 50g white miso
  4. Get * 50 cc mirin
  5. Take * 50 cc sake
  6. Take * 1~2 tbsp sugar
  7. Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil

When you make the miso sauce, constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan, and have a burnt smell. This can be used for some cookings, so I recommend you to prepare in a little more quantity. Brush the roasted eggplant with a thick layer of the dengaku miso and return to the grill for a few minutes until the miso is toasted and fragrant. Remove the skewers and scatter with sesame seeds or place a sprig of kinome into the centre of the eggplant.

Steps to make Grilled Eggplant with Miso Paste:
  1. Put * marked ingredients in a pan, turn on the low fire and stir with a spatula constantly until the sauce becomes thick, for 3~4 mins.
  2. Heat the oil in a pan, cook the cut end of a eggplant over low heat until it becomes golden brown for about 3~4 mins. Turn the eggplant over and cook in the same way for about 3~4 mins.
  3. Put the miso sauce on the cut end of a eggplant, and grill with toaster oven until well browned.
  4. Top with shiso leaves. (optional)

Brush the eggplants with the miso glaze, using up all of the glaze. Allow to cool if desired or serve hot. Smear top of eggplant slices with miso sauce. Miso Glazed Eggplant or Nasu Dengaku as it is traditionally known, is a Japanese eggplant dish made of grilled eggplant glazed with a thick miso sauce. There are many vegan and non-vegan versions out there sporting a myriad of eggplant varieties.

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