JAPANESE TONKATSU CURRY
A delicious bowl of Japanese curry for dinner - tender pieces of chicken, carrots, potatoes, curry sauce and any other ingredients you wish to put in can make for a very simple and easy Japanese meal from home!
Coming from a Japanese family, a common household meal that my mother liked to cook when she was very busy was curry. You can have it prepared in the morning or even the day before and simply heat it up when you’re ready to eat.
Japanese curry compared to Thai and Indian curry is much thicker and less spicy. In fact it’s a bit sweeter compared to the other curry recipes so it’s often seen as a beloved kids food in Japan. Check out this recipe below
Video Credit to Tasty
INGREDIENTS (4 people)
Tonkatsu
4 cups white rice cooked
4 boneless pork chops
4 shiso leaves
4 slices mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup flour
3 eggs
3 cups panko crumbs
oil, for frying
Curry packet
Curry
1/2 onion sliced
2 medium potatoes cubed
1 medium carrot diced
3 cups water (720ml)
Japanese curry paste (Golden Curry, Vermont Curry or Java Curry to name a few)
Procedure
Season pork chops with salt and pepper.
Cut a large slit through the side of the pork.
Place cheese and shiso leaves inside the slit of the pork.
Repeat with remaining pork chops.
Put the pork in flour, then dip into eggs. Roll into panko bread crumbs evenly, dip in eggs
again and roll in bread crumbs once again.
Repeat with other pork chops.
Heat oil over medium heat until 360F (185C).
Fry pork chops one at a time until golden brown and pat with paper towel. Let it rest.
In a pot, saute onions until translucent. Add in your potatoes and and carrots and cook for a few minutes.
Add water into pot and bring to a boil. Let the vegetables cook for 10-15 minutes or until soft.
Add curry paste into pot. Stir until dissolved.
Cook for another 10 minutes.
Slice pork cutlets into 1/2 inch slices.
To serve, place the pork cutlet slices over the rice, then pour a generous serving of curry on half of the pork.
Enjoy!
*How much curry paste is up to you. You can adjust amount to decide how much thicker and stronger in flavor you want your curry to be. Other foods like mushrooms and eggplants can be put in as well. GEt creative!
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