Yabaton Original · Red Miso Pork Cutlet
Misokatsu
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Yabaton's story is that in 1947 a customer at its stall dipped a fried pork skewer into the neighboring pot of miso-simmered doteni stew; the founder liked the idea and developed a miso sauce for cutlets.
A breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet is coated in a thick, dark, sweet-salty sauce built from Aichi's long-fermented Hatcho red miso, served sliced over rice or on its own with shredded cabbage.
Why it's made this way: Nagoya and the surrounding Aichi region are the historic home of Hatcho miso — soybean-only miso aged a minimum of two years — and the region built an entire style of cutlet cuisine specifically to showcase that local paste.
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