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Miso-Glazed Eggplant

The eggplant can also be served as an hors d’oeuvre, cut into bite-size pieces.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 6

Ingredients

5 tablespoons white miso
3 tablespoons sake
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons peanut or grapeseed oil
6 Japanese eggplants (1 1/2 pounds), sliced in half lengthwise
Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    To prepare the miso paste, combine the miso, sake, and sugar in a small saucepan. Warm over low heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Set aside.

    Step 2

    Line a baking sheet with a paper towel; set aside. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat until almost smoking. Place the eggplant halves, cut side up, in the skillet. Cook for 5 minutes, turn over, and continue cooking for 1 to 2 minutes more, or until golden brown and very soft. Remove the eggplant halves from the skillet, and transfer to the prepared baking sheet.

    Step 3

    Using an offset spatula, spread 2 teaspoons reserved miso paste evenly over each eggplant half. Garnish with lemon zest. Serve warm. Cut the eggplant halves into pieces if serving as an hors d’oeuvre.

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Reprinted with permission from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, copyright © 2007. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of The Crown Publishing Group. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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