Nasu no Dengaku
deep-fried eggplant with miso sauce
The Japanese-style deep-fried eggplant topped with Miso souce. One of the delicious vegetarian appetizers.

Course Appetizer
Main Ingredient Vegetable
Method Deep Frying
Taste Sweet
Season Year Round
Time (min.)
Cooking / Prep.
5 / 15
Serves 4 persons


Free Instruction Video - Using Video Controls?

Ingredients

Main Ingredients
2 pieces eggplant
6 tablespoons Aka Miso sauce (sweet red miso sauce)
1 1/2 quarts canola or vegetable oil

Recipe

Procedure
Cut eggplants into 2-inch disks.
Make several shallow cuts in a checkerboard pattern on surface of each disk.
Keep the eggplant disks in a bowl of water right before frying.
In a large deep skillet, bring oil up to 2 inch deep and heat to 340 F. Fry the eggplant disks until getting colored light brown.
Occasionally turn disks over. Using a small stick, check to see if the disks get fried.
Put the fried disks on paper towel draining off oil.
Bring some Aka Miso sauce on the fried eggplant disks.
Serve either warm or cold.




Home | About | Recipes | Glossaries | Links | Contact

Terms of Use

website design : microworks
© Taste of Zen