KatsuDon - Japanese Fried Pork Cutlet with Egg Sauce Over Rice

When you get some crunchy fried pork cutlet with some yummy sauce on top of it, nothing in this world can bring your down! Adults enjoy this dish, but kids devour it. Let's just cut the crap and get cooking!!

Ingredients: Serving for 4

For the Katsu

1" thick Pork Cutlets x 4 Salt x 4tsp Ground White Pepper x 2 tsp Flour x 1 cup Eggs x 1 Panko Bread Crumb x 3 cups

For the sauce

Green Onions x 2 Onions x ½ Dried Shiitake Mushroom x 2 (soak in 1 cup of hot water to rehydrate) Water x 3 cups Mirin x ½ cup Hondashi 2-3 tsp ( Bonito Soup Stock ) Salt x 3-4 tsp Eggs x 4

Cooked rice

Recipe:

For the Katsu

1. Tenderize each cutlet . ( Watch video for a good tip to minimize the mess)

2. Make a little cut at 4 corners of the cutlet. (Watch video for this tip)

3. Season each cutlet with 1tsp of salt and ½ tsp of ground white pepper. Let them sit for 15 mins.

4. Set up the " Cutlet Spa".

- Using a dish with a little depth to beat an egg in.

- Using a dish with a little depth for flour.

- Using a dish with a little depth for panko bread crumb.

5. Heat up the oil to 375 degree for deep frying.

6. While the oil is heating, bread each cutlet in the order of "Flour-Egg-Panko".

7. Deep fry the breaded cutlets till golden brown.

8. Take them out and let them rest on a cooling rack for 3 mins, then cut each cutlet into strips.

For sauce

1. In a bigger sauce pan, sautee onions, mushrooms, and green onions till softened.

2. Add in water, Mirin, Hondashi and salt to taste, then bring to boil.

3. Prepare a plate with desired amount of rice in it.

3. Beat one egg in a bowl.

4. In a smaller sauce pan, heat up sauce one serving at a time. Bring to boil vigorously.

5. While the sauce is boiling vigorously, drop the beaten egg in, right away turn the heat off. Move the pan around to swirl cook the egg in the pan with remaining heat.

6. When the egg is 70% cooked and set, pour the hot sauce on top of the rice.

7. Place one pork cutlet on top and voila!! YUM!!!

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