Eggplant Salad Japanese Style Recipe

Eggplant Salad Japanese Style Recipe

Eggplant salad is rich with asian flavors and aromas. If you’ve never used Japanese eggplants, I implore you to give them a try. They are smaller, softer, and sweeter than the ones used in Italian cuisine.

This eggplant salad is equally at home as an entree and as a side dish.

I never submit to the tyranny of frying eggplant, which is not only time consuming, but gobbles up lots of oil. I have included a mushroom-eggplant combo, using exactly the same recipe, but throwing in small mushrooms, white button or cremini.

Ingredients

  • 2 medium eggplant, peeled, cut in half lengthwise, then diced
  • 1/4 cup toasted sesame oil
  • 6 large cloves garlic
  • 1 2 inch piece ginger, grated
  • 3-4 tablespoons brown rice vinegar
  • 2-3 tablespoons bottled hot sauce
  • 3-4 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 4 scallions, sliced very thin
  • 1/4 cup minced cilantro

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Line a cookie sheet with foil. Heavily spray the foil with vegetable spray. Add the eggplant cubes in one layer, and spray again with vegetable spray. Roast 20-30 minutes, or until dark and very soft. Transfer to a mixing bowl, with all remaining ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Serve at room temperature.

Variation: Throw in 1 pound saute cremini mushrooms or button mushrooms, the smaller the better, and proceed just as above.

2 replies
  1. Yehudit
    Yehudit says:

    Hi Levana,
    The salad sounds very nice, but the picture reflects a completely different dish. Could you please post the real one?

    Reply

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