Textural Mushrooms, Eggplant, Miso

This dish emphasises the intensity of flavour that can be achieved by applying different techniques to a single ingredient: fermenting, dehydrating, frying, using the ingredient in its raw state and featuring unexpected parts of that ingredient, such as the dried shiitake skins. These different techniques, combined with a couple of complementary ingredients—miso and steamed grilled eggplant—all work together to create a powerful expression of the mushroom.