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Today’s miso soup is cold miso soup with eggplant. The eggplant is simply cooked in the microwave, significantly reducing stovetop cooking time. During hot days, you want to minimize heat-based cooking as much as possible! All ingredients should be well-chilled in the fridge so that the end product is nicely cold. Prepare this in the morning, and you’ll have a wonderfully cold soup for dinner. Shiso leaves add a refreshing herbal taste, but you can substitute with green onion if you can’t find them. We hope this soup helps you cool down!

Grilled Eggplant, or Yakinasu, is a traditional Japanese summer dish where eggplants are charred over direct flame or on a fish grill, then peeled. Chilled grilled eggplant is so refreshingly soothing in hot, humid weather that it’s a staple side dish in summer. Its smoky flavor is the ultimate taste of summer that everybody knows and loves in Japan.

Miso Glazed Eggplant (Nasu Dengaku, 茄子田楽) is grilled eggplant rounds topped with a sweet miso sauce. It makes for a great appetizer alongside your favorite drinks such as sake and beer. Additionally, it serves as a delicious main dish that pairs well with steamed rice. The robust flavor of the miso sauce complements the freshness of the juicy eggplant. Feel free to use any kind of miso you prefer, adjusting the amount of sugar and Mirin accordingly. This dish is also vegan-friendly. We hope you give it a try!

Today’s miso soup is made with pan fried eggplant and green onions. Japanese eggplant is cut into thick sticks and pan fried with oil before added to the broth. Softly cooked eggplant soaks up savory dashi and miso flavor.

Instant dashi packet is used in this recipe, but you can certainly use any types of dashi. Please check Back to Basics: How to Make Dashi to learn more about different types of dashi.

This is a super easy one-dish-meal done within 15 minutes. Eggplant and ground chicken are cooked in sweet and salty sauce, and then poured over cooked Udon noodles. You can use frozen or dried Udon, whichever you have. Don’t have ground chicken? No problem. Use beef or pork, or even Tofu. It’s easy to multiply this recipe for the whole family. Try this one for a busy night dinner!