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chicken nanban
Japanese fried chicken dressed with sweet-sour nanban sauce and creamy egg tartar sauce.
About chicken nanban
Chicken Nanban is a speciality of Miyazaki in southern Japan, combining fried chicken with a sweet-sour nanban sauce and egg-rich tartar sauce. This profile follows the breast-meat version with the sauces prepared separately.
Rice vinegar gives the nanban sauce its bright tang, balanced by sugar, mirin and savoury soy sauce. The tartar topping adds creamy richness, mild onion bite, cool cucumber and soft boiled egg over the crisp chicken.
The chicken is golden and lightly craggy, glazed so the crust turns glossy while retaining some bite. Pale tartar sauce sits thickly on top, with visible pieces of egg, onion and cucumber contrasting with the warm cutlet.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Soy, Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in chicken nanban
Miyazaki Chicken Nanban with Tartar Sauce.
- Chicken breastFried chicken centre
- Rice vinegarNanban and tartar acidity
- Soy sauceSavoury nanban seasoning
- MirinSweet rice-wine depth
- SugarSweet-sour balance
- EggFrying coat and tartar body
- OnionTartar sharpness
- CucumberCool tartar crunch
- Japanese mayonnaiseCreamy tartar base
- SaltSeasoning
- White pepperGentle pepper heat
- Wheat flourChicken coating
- Vegetable oilDeep-frying medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Chicken breast:
- Rice vinegar:
- Soy sauce: . Standard soy sauce is retained with Soy and Wheat; the source does not name a producer.
- Mirin:
- Sugar:
- Egg:
- Onion:
- Cucumber:
- Japanese mayonnaise: . The source names Japanese mayonnaise, specifically Kewpie, but does not reproduce the complete commercial formula; Egg remains confirmed.
- Salt:
- White pepper:
- Wheat flour:
- Vegetable oil: . The neutral vegetable oil's botanical source is not supplied.
Origins & food traditions
Just One Cookbook supplies the complete selected Miyazaki-style structure: chicken breast coated with flour and egg, fried, dressed in rice-vinegar, soy-sauce, mirin and sugar nanban sauce, then topped with boiled-egg, onion, cucumber and Japanese-mayonnaise tartar sauce. No Recipes independently corroborates the sweet-sour fried chicken and egg-mayonnaise topping structure.
Countries
- Japan
- JapanCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Japanese Cuisine