Steps to Make Quick “UMAI” grilled eggplants π

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make “UMAI” grilled eggplants π is 6 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
Just in addition, the time it takes to cook “UMAI” grilled eggplants π estimated approx 20 mins.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook “UMAI” grilled eggplants π using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
I visited my company’s Indonesia office and wanted to thank them by cooking food from my country. Since it’s summer now eggplants π are now in season, and I wanted to eat them.
This recipe is originally from Cookpad Japan https://cookpad.com/recipe/2693663 but I added a tip found on Twitter to prevent eggplants from absorbing oil too much, which means it’s healthier https://twitter.com/sinyasai/status/1541708085764530177 This tip that went viral on Twitter is from an eggplant farmerπ©πΎ so this must be genuine.
The name of this recipe is translated from the original recipe. “Umai” in Japanese sounds similar to “Umami” but it means just tasty and delicious. While “Umami” stands for a category of taste by definition certainly, “Umai” is more like our feeling. I’m not sure the origin of the word umai-yaki (grill) but the foods grilled with sauce is called umai-yaki. Japanese love salty-sweet tastes made of soy sauce, mirin and sugar, like teriyaki. I think it deserves to be called “UMAI”.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make “UMAI” grilled eggplants π:
- 3-4 large Eggplants/Auberginesπ
- 1-2 tbsp Sesame oil
- Sauce
- Disclaimer: I'm not confident with the amount of the following for given eggplants yet. You may adjust the sauce depending on the number of eggplants you use. The ratio of sauces won't change
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Japanese cooking sake or dry white wine or skip this if you have a restriction
- 2 tbsp Mirin
- 2 tbsp White sugar
- 4 tbsp White sesame seeds (toasted and ground one if you have)
- 1 small piece of ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
Steps to make “UMAI” grilled eggplants π
- Get ingredients together!

- Peel some skins from eggplants. I peeled three lines on each. Peeled part will better absorb the sauce that you are going to make later.

- Cut eggplants into bite size

- A pro tip from a farmer on Twitter: Soak eggplants in salty water (1-2% of salt) for 10 mins so that the eggplants won’t absorb oil too much. While waiting for soaking, let’s make the sauce.

- If white sesame seeds aren’t toasted nor grounded, you can do that by yourself. This way sesame seeds get more nutty flavour and smells.


- Mix all of ingredients in Sauce section. To add garlic and ginger, grate them with grater

- Stir fry eggplants with sesame oil with high heat until cooked


- Reduce heat to low-medium and then pour the sauce over cooked eggplants and simmer them until the sauce thickens. Don’t simmer too much!
- Serve it with your favourite plate

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