🍱 Urakamisoboro

This local dish originated in the Urakami area of Nagasaki Prefecture. It is said to have originated in the late 1500s, when Portuguese missionaries who were proselytizing Christianity in the Urakami area tried to make the believers, who were not accustomed to eating meat at that time, eat pork as a "healthy food". Later, the missionaries began to make the dish with less pork and more vegetables, and this became the basic recipe, which has been handed down to the present. Some say that the name comes from the Portuguese word "soprado (leftovers)," or from "rough chop," which means to chop the ingredients roughly.