japanese-style chicken & cheese baked with red miso in foil

ingredients:

  • 200 g boneless chicken breast
  • or thigh
  • 90 g eggplants
  • 20 g shredded mozzarella
  • 1 tablespoon red miso
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon sake

step 1:

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces. Wash the eggplants. Slice into about 2 cm. wide pieces.

step 2:

Mix the miso, sugar and sake in a dish.

step 3:

Wrap the eggplants, chicken, 1 tablespoon of the miso mixture and the cheese in aluminium foil.

step 4:

Put the wrapped ingredients in a frying pan and cover and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and keep coverd for 5 minutes in order to soften the eggplant. After waiting 5 minutes, uncover the pan and place on a serving plate.

comment:

The miso taste becomes very mellow and deep from the umami of the chicken and cheese. The eggplants become very soft and delicious.