HALLOWEEN Miso Simmered Eggplant Witch ハロウィンに茶せん茄子の魔女風味噌煮込み

Miso simmered eggplant is pretty popular dish in Japan. I arranged it for Halloween, so I hope you like it!

Without a question, it goes great with white rice!!!

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Miso Simmered Eggplant Witch

Difficulty: Medium
Time: 30min
Number of servings: 4

Ingredients:
4 eggplants (5-6 inches long)
A
* 200cc dashi broth (using packaged dashi powder saves time)
* 1 tbsp. mirin (sweet sake)
* 1 tbsp. sake
* 1/2 tbsp. sugar
B
* 1 tbsp. red miso
* 2 tbsp. white miso
4 star-shaped thick carrot slices

Directions:
1. Make "Chasen Nasu" and soak in water to remove the oxalic acid. The procedure for "Chasen Nasu" is HERE: http://createeathappy.blogspot.com/2008/09/chasen-nasu.html
2. Heat A in a deep pot, dilute miso in 1/2 cup soup broth, add Chasen Nasu and carrot slices, then cover with Otoshi Buta (drop-lid) and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. Flip eggplants, cover and simmer for another 10 minutes until the eggplants soften.
3. Pour the soup on a dish, twist and press the eggplant by hand to form the witch shape.
5. Attach carrot slices with a toothpick (like a magic stick) and stick it on to the eggplant witch.

Drop-lid is called "Otoshi Buta" a in Japanese. It is traditionally made of wood but you can use aluminum foil. They ensure that the heat is evenly distributed and reduce the tendency of liquid to boil with large bubbles and break the fragile ingredients.

レシピ（日本語）
http://cooklabo.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_23.html
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Happy Halloween :D

Products I used:

Ajinomoto Hon-Dashi (Bonito Fish Soup Stock)
It is an authentic granule Dashi.
http://www.ajinomoto.com/tasty/dashi/dashi2.html

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Dazie Mae
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[marisestube]

I made this and the Frankenstein bell peppers for Halloween. Everyone loved them and we agreed that these were the best eggplants we ever ate!

We decided that from now on we will always prepare eggplants using 'chasen-giri'.

[ochikeron]

@marisestube great thank you!!! i am happy to know that you liked chasen-giri ;D hehe

[rockyhorrorcarla]

but how do I eat it?

[ochikeron]

@rockyhorrorcarla you bite from the bottom and leave the stem ;)

[sweetdenni]

We don't get carrots that big in the US...

[ochikeron]

@sweetdenni oh, maybe you don't get the small eggplant! carrot is not that big. hehe

[jennxl33]

do you know what the eggplants look like..

[hellojuh]

好可愛 好可愛~~!!

[GazeRock123]

It looks like a haunted house on a hill xD

[nidjiunanatshi]

I didn't thought it looked like a witch...

I thought it looked like Konata Witch 8D

You know, the star-shaped wand ?

[ochikeron]

@Glasmoon90 you bite from the bottom and leave the stem ;)

[ochikeron]

@shikato99 aww... i hope so. LoL

[xoxoxoLOVELESSxoxoxo]

it looks so cute :3 !

i think it'll be better if the carrots look brighter, probably just boil them in water instead of the miso

overall, it looks GREAT :D !