This easy eggplant recipe is a simple way to jazz up a mid week meal. It’s salty, sweet and saucy.

Although the ingredients may sound strange, you can find all of the ingredients in any supermarket nowadays and you can use them for many other Japanese style dishes. You can use any miso – red, white, brown, for this recipe.

Serve with rice or noodles, steamed green vegetables, grilled chicken or fish, as part of a delicious Japanese meal.

Nutrition

Eggplant is a great source of fibre, vitamins and minerals. Miso is a nutritious paste made from fermented soy beans, containing protein and vitamins such as B vitamins.

Easy Japanese Eggplant

A simple recipe to make eggplant super tasty

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Servings 2

Ingredients

  

• 2 tbsp mirin (available from supermarket)
• 2 tbsp cooking sake (available from supermarket)
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar (available from supermarket
• 1 tbsp tahini
• 1/2 tbsp soy sauce or tamari
• 2 tbsp water
• 4 tbsp oil
• 1/2 large eggplant
• 1 whole spring onion
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds to serve

Instructions

 

• To make the sauce, combine the mirin, cooking sake, miso, sesame paste (or tahini), soy, rice vinegar and water in a bowl. Whisk until well combined and set aside.
• Cut the eggplant into round, 1 cm thick slices.
• On high heat add the oil to a large saucepan. When the oil is hot, add the eggplant and cook until golden brown on each side.
• Add the sauce and continue to cook until the sauce thickens and eggplant becomes soft. The sauce should glaze & coat the eggplant when cooked. If the eggplant is not soft & sauce is too thick, then add little more water. Remove from pan and serve in a bowl.
• To serve, finely slice the green end of the shallot and sprinkle on top of the eggplant, along with the sesame seeds.

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