Search

"This looked interesting, and I am posting here for safekeeping. Will update description when I try it. Good thing about it is that it offers substitutes for hard-to-find Asian ingredients. A recipe by Haryumi Kurihara, the "empress of Japanese domesticity" based on an article I cut out of the NY Times."

Ingredients: dry sherry, eggplants...

"Based on a recipe from Bon Appetit. Very easy but impressive looking and tasting."

Ingredients: dry crushed red pepper, mixed baby greens...

"This tastes just like my local Japanese restaurants' does. I hope my instructions aren't too confusing. Whenever I serve this, I give each person an eggplant half so they can eat the eggplant out of the eggplant shell."

Ingredients: cornstarch, eggplants...

"According to Chinese legend, deliciously rich black forbidden rice was considered so rare and nutritious that only the emperor was allowed to eat it. Now you can find it in some grocery store and health food stores. You can mix the components together and bake as a casserole or serve individually. Adapted from Delicious Living magazine."

Ingredients: eggplants, black rice, mirin...

"So easy and healthier than regular fried foods. Try any vegetables, these are just my personal favorite for tempura. Itadakimatsu! (bon apetit!)"

Ingredients: eggplants, oil, onions...

"Try to get Japanese aubergines for this as they work really well"

Ingredients: coconut milk, ground turmeric...

"Japanese aubergines come in a variety of shapes and sizes. However they are much smaller than the ones we commonly come across in Europe and the USA. Try to find for 10cm long aubergines.

Credit goes to Chizuko Moriyama for this recipe."

Ingredients: toasted sesame oil, aubergines...

"Another eggplant recipe."

Ingredients: eggplants, garlic, white miso...

"I found this in my "Japanese Kitchen" cookbook and tried it out to take advantage of some great farmer's market bargains of oriental eggplant and super fresh tomatoes. This worked out great for us because all the work is done ahead of time. The Japanese name of this recipe is 'hiyashi nasu to tomato no sarada'. Cook time is chill..."

Ingredients: fresh ginger, rice vinegar...

"From The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman. Use the Japanese eggplant (the slender, long, lavender-colored varieties rather than the fat, almost black ones) for this recipe. Make this up to an hour in advance; like many eggplant dishes, it's good at room temperature. Or make in advance and run under the broiler to reheat, until the miso..."

Ingredients: corn oil, eggplants...

"Found this online."

Ingredients: eggplants, miso, olive oil...

"Yum! Recipe courtesy Bobby Flay from his show Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction, episode - Japanese Grillin'. I have tweaked it just a bit."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, fresh mint...

"Autumn Eggplant in Spicy Sweet Vinegar Marinade. Chef Hiroko Shimbo's recipe for Victory Garden."

Ingredients: radicchio, fennel bulbs...