Nasu Dengaku - Restaurant Style Miso Eggplant Recipe (video)
This is a restaurant-style Japanese dish that focuses on eggplant and miso! Traditionally this is actually grilled over a charcoal fire, which does make everything a little toastier and give you a little more caramelization, but the recipe done in the oven comes out very nicely. As you can see, the slightly sweetened miso gets beautifully toasty on top, and the sesame seeds get a little bit of colour as well. Don't forget to salt the eggplant and drain it before cooking with it, as it reduces the bitterness!
The eggplant ends up being very creamy underneath the toasty miso glaze. If you want to mix white and red miso, that would also work very well for this recipe. You may also wish to dilute the the paste with a little more mirin or even a little bit of sake or something similar. Ours came out quite salty, because the miso itself is very salty. Make sure you don't over-season! Most of the salt that you use on the eggplant comes out with the liquid it releases, but keep an eye on the salt content of your miso!
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