Special Miso Sauce

This recipe is one that Taste published some years ago ( https://tastecooking.com/special-spicy-miso-sauce-not-special-home-cooking/ *) and a friend pushed me to have a look at it. I was very sceptical – for several reasons including cooking lemon juice changes its flavour and it can become bitter.

But I do like to test recipes, especially if prompted or recommended by friends. So one Saturday afternoon when I was roasting some broccoli and needed a sauce for it, I set about making this special miso sauce.

It has only 6 ingredients – red or brown miso, sweet components (a lot of sugar and some mirin), sour ingredients (sake or rice vinegar and lemon juice) and a lot of heat (dried red chillies).

The result was precisely as you imagine. Dark. Rich. Bright. Chilli-hot. Sweet.

** These days this is a bit too much sugar for my tastes, but today I am going to mix miso, chilli crisp, and some rice vinegar to have with some baked potatoes.

*Click through at the bottom of that page for the actual recipe.

*The recipe is from Hiroko Shimbo’s Hiroko’s American Kitchen.

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