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Pork and Eggplant with Miso

Featured in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on June 1, 2011.

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Ingredients:

Pork and Eggplant with Miso

  • 1 1/2 lb belly pork
  • 2 stalks gobo (burdock root)
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons minced ginger root
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 lb long eggplant
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup miso (Japanese fermented soybean paste)
  • 1/4 cup sake (rice wine)
  • 1/2 bunch chives, chopped
  • 2 teaspoons sesame seed, toasted and grounded

Directions:

  1. Cut pork into 1/4-inch slices.
  2. Scrape gobo and cut into thin diagonal slivers.
  3. Heat electric skillet and brown pork.
  4. Add water, soy sauce, gobo, ginger, and garlic.
  5. Bring to a boil, lower heat, and simmer about 2 minutes.
  6. Partly peel eggplant, leaving strips of purple; cut diagonally into 1/2-inch slices.
  7. Add to pork mixture.
  8. Combine sugar, miso, sake, and chives.
  9. Stir into pork mixture.
  10. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  11. Garnish with sesame seeds.

Makes 6 servings.

Approximate Nutrient Analysis per serving:
750 calories, 62 g fat, 22 g saturated fat, 80 mg cholesterol, Greater than 1600 mg sodium, 30 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 14 g sugar, 17 g protein

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