“It’s a soy- or tamari-based sauce sweetened with sugar or honey, featuring mirin [sweet Japanese rice wine], rice vinegar, tomato paste, and sometimes, fresh ingredients like ginger and green ...

This Asian-accented dish features a sauce made with store-bought plum and hoisin sauces, plus a little ginger, garlic and lemongrass. It adds lovely flavor to grilled tender Japanese eggplants.

pounds of ginger, rice vinegar, mirin and sesame oil are sent to be mixed into large vats of what will soon become Bachan’s Japanese barbecue sauce. The various flavors will then be piped into ...

Spoon the ginger sauce over the eggplant. Garnish with the purple basil (if using) and serve at once.