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NIMONO of eggplant and green pepper



NIMONO is one of traditional dishes in Japan.
Cooking time, heat or way of seasoning depend on vegetables.

Today I choose eggplant ane green pepper as ingredients.

Japanese eggplants contain plenty water,
therefore we can cook NIMONO of eggplant without adding water.

INGREDIENTS -serves 4 persons-


eggplant

4

green pepper

4

fish powder

1 teaspoon

SAKE or white wine

15cc

sugar

15cc

MIRIN

15cc

soysauce

30cc

sesami oil

15cc


PREPARATIONS

1. Precook

Make slits on surface of eggplants to macerate well when cook. Remove seeds from green pepper and wash with water. Cut eggplants and green peppers into pieces.


2. Fly with sesami oil

Put sesami oil in a pan and warm. Fry eggplants and green pepper.


3. Seasoning

Add fish powder, SAKE, sugar, MIRIN and soysauce, then mix with vegetables.


4. Cook

Put a lid which is smaller than the pan on and cook until vegetables get soft. We call this kind of lid OTOSHIBUTA.


5. Cook down the juice

Put the lid off and cook down the juice until the liquid is almost gone.


6. Ready!

Now, it's ready to eat!




Japanese cooking recipe
The order of seasoning is important!

  1. SAKE, fish powder
  2. sugar, MIRIN
  3. soysause

When we make Japanese dishes in spite of NIMONO, the basic order is below.
  1. SAKE
  2. sugar, MIRIN
  3. salt
  4. vinegar
  5. soysause
  6. MISO