Japanese Grilled Eggplant Yaki Nasu

Japanese grilled eggplant, or yaki nasu, is a quick and easy Japanese recipe. It can be easily prepared in less than 30 minutes. Since Japanese recipes focus on retaining the natural flavor of the ingredients, not much heavy seasonings and sauces are used. For this particular recipe, grilled eggplants are simply served with grated ginger, katsuobushi and soy sauce. If you want to make it gluten free, just make sure to use gluten-free soy sauce instead. I use Japanese or Chinese eggplants for this recipe; these eggplants are longer and slimmer in shape.
(My instruction video: https://youtu.be/fmTeXyskjwo)

Ingredients:

2 Japanese/Chinese eggplant

Katsuobushi

Soy sauce or gluten-free soy sauce

Ginger

Steps:

1. Cut off the loose stem. You don’t want to cut the stem tip off completely. Only cut the loose part as much as possible so the eggplant will cook evenly.
2. Grate some ginger. Ginger is used for garnishing so you can add more or less depending on your liking.
3. To grill, place eggplants on a grilling rack and grill on medium-high heat until the skin is burned and looks wrinkly. I cook mine for about 15 minutes, 5 minutes on each side. Depending on the size of your eggplants, you might need to adjust the cooking time accordingly. Make sure to rotate your eggplants so they are grilled evenly. It’s okay for the skin to burn because we will peel it off before serving. Remove the eggplants from the heat when done.
4. Let the eggplants cool off a little bit then start peeling the skin. After grilling, the skin should come off easily.
5. Cut the eggplants into small bite-size pieces and place them on a serving plate.
6. To serve, sprinkle some katsuobushi. Add some grated ginger on the top of the eggplants. And lastly, drizzle some soy sauce.
conten source: https://youtu.be/fmTeXyskjwo