🏠 Negi-Miso Sauce – Easy Tasty Japanese Recipe

Negi means sprig onion, and Miso is miso paste. This sauce or paste is great over hot rice or steamed chicken.

I also love the Shiso-Miso version which uses shiso leaves instead, but it’s hard to get the leaves here, so here are two variations of the spring onion miso recipe.

Make with frypan

This one has a stronger flavour since it’s boiled down in a pan.

Ingredients:

• Sesame oil – 1tbsp
• Spring onions, chopped – 2 or 30g
• Miso – 3tbsp
• Mirin – 2tbsp
• Sake – 2tbsp
• Sugar – 1tbsp
• Grated ginger – 1tsp
• Soy sayce – 2tsp

How to make:

1. Heat sesame oil in frypan.
2. Heat the spring onions until soft.
3. Add the sauce ingredients and boil down.

Make with microwave

This one tastes less sesame oily and has a tamer flavour, but has a touch of spice.

Ingredients:

• Spring onions, chopped – 2 or 30g
• Miso – 2.5tbsp
• Mirin – 2tbsp
• Sesame oil – 2tsp
• Sugar – 2tsp
• Soy sayce – 1tsp
• Sake – 1tbsp
• Roasted sesame seeds – 1tsp
• Tobanjan or other chilli paste – 1tsp

How to make in microwave:

• Mix all ingredients in a microwave safe bowl.
• Microwave for 1min.
• Mix, then microwave for another 1min.

I don’t have a toaster oven or grill, but I do have a sandwich press – so I can make Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice balls) with it 🙂