Last week I found myself staring at the same container of miso paste that I used over a month ago for soup. Miso paste has a long shelf life but it was taking up valuable real estate in my apartment-sized fridge. I needed to either find some use for it or throw it away. So I decided to make a miso-glazed salmon with red cabbage-miso slaw and kuromame (sweet black soybeans).
Kuromame is a traditional Japanese dish eaten as a part of the New Year’s celebration to ensure good health in the coming year. It has a wonderfully sweet flavor and I thought they would be the perfect thing to compliment the spicy salmon and slaw. Please, blog, may I have some more?