Hi everyone, Courtney Roulston back to share another aussie favourite recipe with you. Miso eggplant that I'm pairing with a delicious sesame and ginger dressed soba noodle salad. As the weather starts to warm up across Australia, we are all wanting to get together and share delicious food with friends and family. Coles is the home of all your entertaining needs this season and we want to help you make the best dish for any event and I reckon you gonna love this one.
Alright let's kick off with our miso eggplant, I'm going to slice the eggplant across patten in the flesh then all you need to do is give it a little drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. Season with a little bit of sea salt and pop the eggplant flesh side down into a hot pan just to get a bit of color on the outside. Now that the eggplants have some colour on them they’re gonna go into a really hot oven for about 15 minutes.
For the miso glaze, I’ve got some miso paste in a bowl, I’m gonna add in some mirin, a dash of sesame oil and a touch of maple syrup. Give that a whisk until it's beautiful smooth. That's the miso glaze done so once the eggplants had its 15 minutes in the oven, I'm gonna drizzle this over the top put it back in the oven for about 5 minutes.
The next step, a little bit of multi tasking here, I’ve got some boling water 180 grams of soba noodles and they're just going to go into the boiling water, 3 or 4 minutes, while there cooking we’re gonna make that beautiful sesame and ginger dressing for the noodles. Tahini paste I'm going to add in some apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, some sesame oil and some raw grated ginger, give that a whisk and that is a beautiful earthy, tangy, acidic dressing for our noodles.
Soba noodles have been washed and drained it into a bowl, I'm going to add in a couple of zucchini’s that I’ve just sliced into noodles and I've got some beautiful disks of radish as well. I can now dress our salad with out sesame and ginger dressing. I’ve got some sunflower seeds for a bit of crunch, some fresh chives that have just snipped up.
The eggplant has come out of the oven looking and smelling spectacular, that is my miso glazed eggplant with sesame and ginger dressed soba noodles. This simple great value meal will impress any guest, best of all it comes in at under $5 per serve. For this and loads more food and entertainment inspiration head over to Coles.com.au