White Miso Sauce

[Kuma]

I was reading the recipe for furofuki daikon and I was wondering: they list the sauce that goes with the simmered daikon as:

50 ml White Miso Paste

50 ml Mirin

1 Tbls Sugar

When cooked, it looks silky and savoury/sweet and I thought it might go well with other foods. Has anyone used it on anything else other than Daikon? I tried it on Sweet Potato and it went together really nicely.

[camdan]

Try it with black cod.

[smallworld]

Daikon is really the classic use for this sauce, but I don't see why it wouldn't work with other mild vegetables. Keep in mind the the preparation of the daikon is just as important as the sauce.

Personally though I don't like furofuki made with white miso, especially with a really sweet, simple recipe like the one you mention. It's just too sweet. Cutting down on the sugar, replacing the mirin with sake, and using different types of miso would help make it more versatile. I love it with red miso.

A similar and much more versatile sauce is dengaku, although it's often brushed on food while grilled rather than just used as a sauce. It's lovely with tofu, eggplant, konnyaku, daikon, and the like.