Easy to prepare, this eggplant dish can be both an elegant and unctuous side or entrée dish. Message from Nami( Just One Cookbook®): "Here is a simple appetizer dish you can serve at a party. Sweet miso flavor goes extremely well with eggplant and this dish is done in 15 minutes with the help of M1nute Miso Organic. Other than as an appetizer, you can also serve it over steamed rice as a main vegetarian dish and it's a perfect quick weeknight meal. Enjoy!"
3ea.Cilantro stalks(stems discarded and leaves chopped)
Cooking spray
Instructions
Preheat broiler with the rack about 4 inches from the heat source.
Line the baking pan with parchment paper and spray it with non-stick cooking spray.
In a small bowl, combine miso, sugar, mirin, and red chili pepper flakes and mix well. Set aside.
Remove the ends of the eggplants. Slice them in half lengthwise from the stem to bottom creating boat-like halves. If you use Chinese eggplants, cut each boat-like half crosswise for a good size.
With the tip of a knife score the flesh, about 1/4 inch deep 3-4 times across the eggplants.
Place the eggplants flesh side down and broil until the outer skin browns and softens, about 5 minutes. Turn the eggplants flesh side up and brush on the mixture from step 3.
Broil the eggplant again until glaze starts to brown and sizzle, about 5 minutes.
Sprinkle with sesame seeds, green onion, and cilantro. Serve immediately.
Product used in this recipe
50% Genen Miso 17.6 oz (500 g)
Our 50% Genen Miso is a very unique miso with sodium content of 50% less than the regular miso ranges, at only 5.3g of sodium per 100g miso. It is very bright beige in color, is very sweat and mild coming from abundant use of koji. Good for any recipe for marinades, sauces, dressings, and any miso-seasoned recipe, rather than for miso soup.
Our M1nute Miso Organic is made from organic rice and soybeans, with yellow in color. Vegetable and kelp dashi is blended to come up with miso in liquid form, mild and umami-rich taste, and, in easy-to-use bottle. Miso soup in one minutes. Also, as a base, you can create your own suaces, miso marinades, dressings, and glazes.
M1nute Miso Organic Original(English and french label) 283 g
Our M1nute Miso Organic is made from organic rice and soybeans, with yellow in color. Vegetable and kelp dashi is blended to come up with miso in liquid form, mild and umami-rich taste, and, in easy-to-use bottle. Miso soup in one minutes. Also, as a base, you can create your own suaces, miso marinades, dressings, and glazes.
Namiko Hirasawa Chen is the creator of Just One Cookbook, the #1 English-language website for Japanese recipes. Nami believes that anyone can cook traditional and modern Japanese dishes with confidence using her accessible, step-by-step instructions and videos. To help home cooks prepare and beautifully plate their homemade meals, she recently launched her online shop called JOC Goods dedicated to artisan Japanese tableware and kitchenware. Nami was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan and now resides with her family in California.
