ingredients:
- 7 ounces boneless chicken
- breast or thigh
- 3 ounces eggplants
- 2/3 ounce shredded mozzarella
- cheese
- 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 1 in. 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.