Miso Glazed Eggplant

Name: Miso Glazed Eggplant
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 Japanese eggplants, halved lengthways; 4 tbsp white miso; 3 tbsp mirin; 2 tbsp sake; 1 tbsp sugar; sesame seeds and spring onion to garnish; vegetable oil to brush

Nasu dengaku — broiled eggplant with a sweet white miso glaze. Grilling the eggplant cut-side down first softens the flesh through before the glaze goes on to caramelise under the heat.

Total time

20 min

Prep

5 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Japanese

vegan

Ingredients

4Japanese eggplants, halved lengthways

4 tbspwhite miso

3 tbspmirin

2 tbspsake

1 tbspsugar

sesame seeds and spring onionto garnish

vegetable oilto brush

Instructions

Score eggplant flesh in cross-hatch.

Brush with oil.

Grill cut-side down 5 minutes.

Mix miso, mirin, sake and sugar.

Flip eggplant. Spread miso glaze thickly.

Grill 5 more minutes until glaze caramelises.

Scatter sesame seeds and spring onion.

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.

Calories

Protein

Fat

Carbs

8.3g

Fiber

Sodium

1mg

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