Grilled Eggplants with Miso & cheese. Miso and eggplant is a gorgeous combination of flavours. If you've never tried it before, you're in for a treat. The traditional Japanese way of making this is not grilled, it is served with the eggplant sautéed and draped with a miso sauce which is simply a thinner version of the miso glaze (see notes for directions).

Salt and freshly ground black pepper Eggplant is the best kind of vegetable, which is to say, a multi tasker that can take on many different forms. It's as equally at home breaded and fried or, as it is here: roasted until it has a deliciously melted center. Topped with a rich miso dressing, this recipe works equally well as an appetizer course or as a side dish for salmon or chicken. You can have Grilled Eggplants with Miso & cheese using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Grilled Eggplants with Miso & cheese

You need 2 of ~3 eggplants (cut into bite sized pieces).
It's 1 of onion (cut into 5~7mm thin slices).
It's 5 of cm piece Japanese leek (chopped).
You need 150 of ~200g ground pork.
You need of cheese (as much as you want).
It's of salt and pepper (optional).
You need of miso sauce: (mix in advance).
You need 2 tbsp of miso.
It's 2 1/2 Tbsp of sugar.
Prepare 2 tbsp of sake.
You need 2 tbsp of mirin.

Cooking tip: Watch the sesame seeds while. Grilled eggplants can be enjoyed with tahini sauce to get a creamy texture, or they can be eaten with soy sauce to get a traditional Japanese flavor. A small quantity of it can act as an appetizer with a heavy meal but grilled eggplant with Miso rice can itself be used as a three-course meal. A grilled version of this dish is known as Nasu dengaku where the eggplant is grilled with a miso glaze.

Grilled Eggplants with Miso & cheese instructions

Stir fry ground pork over medium heat in a pan until it changes color. Add onion, Japanese leek and cook until wilted. Add eggplants and keep stir frying until cooked..
Pour the miso sauce and cook until the flavor blended and the liquid is almost gone. Season with salt and pepper (optional).
Arrange them on the plate and sprinkle cheese on top and toast in the toaster until it becomes golden brown..

This recipe for Nasu-miso is simple and easy to prepare, and the taste is simply extraordinary. The soft, chewy texture of the eggplant is complemented with the unique taste of miso and a rich sauce made from Japanese condiments. Remove the eggplant from the oven, transfer to a serving plate, scatter with spring onion and toasted. Smear top of eggplant slices with miso sauce. Cook for a few minute until skin is brown.