Foryoueats: Yakitori-Style Grilled Vegetable (Homemade Yakitori Sauce)

Ingredients

• Yakitori Sauce (“Tare“) (yields roughly ½ cup):
• ½ cup soy sauce
• ½ cup mirin
• ¼ cup sake
• 2 tsp brown sugar (packed and leveled off)
• ¼ cup water
• For the Vegetables and Mushrooms (customize to your preference):
• 2 Japanese eggplants
• 4 king oyster mushrooms (eringi)
• 2 Tokyo negi (naga negi; long green onion)
• 8 shiitake mushrooms
• 1 package maitake mushrooms (3.5 oz, 100 g)
• 12 shishito peppers
• 12 cherry tomatoes
• 2 zucchini
• For Serving:
• shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven spice) (optional)