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Miso Glazed Eggplant (Nasu Dengaku)

Name: Miso Glazed Eggplant (Nasu Dengaku)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 4 Japanese eggplants, halved; miso glaze: 3 tbsp white miso, 2 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sake, 1 tbsp sugar; sesame seeds and spring onion to garnish; steamed rice to serve

Silky Japanese miso-glazed eggplant, oven-roasted until melting inside. Roasting it cut-side down first softens the flesh all the way through before the glaze goes on to caramelise under the grill.

Total time

25 min

Prep

5 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Mediterranean

comfortvegetarianhearty

Ingredients

4Japanese eggplants, halved

miso glaze: 3 tbsp white miso, 2 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sake, 1 tbsp sugar

sesame seeds and spring onionto garnish

steamed riceto serve

Instructions

Score eggplant flesh in crosshatch; brush with oil.

Roast cut-side down at 220°C for 15 min.

Flip; spread miso glaze generously.

Grill under broiler 3-4 min until glaze caramelises.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

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