Pork katsu sando
Prep time
25 minutes
Cook time
12 minutes
Serves 2 people
Ingredients
-
•400g pork sizzle steaks
-
•¼ cup plain flour
-
•1 egg, lightly beaten
-
•1 cup panko breadcrumbs (see tips)
-
•Vegetable or rice bran oil, for shallow frying
-
•4 slices milk bread or thick white bread, crusts removed (see tips)
-
•Butter, softened, for spreading
-
•Tonkatsu sauce, for drizzling (see tips)
-
•2/3 cup finely shredded cabbage
Method
-
1.Place flour, eggs and breadcrumbs into separate shallow bowls. Dust pork in flour, dip into egg and coat in breadcrumbs, lightly pressing the crumbs into pork.
-
2.Heat about 1cm of oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook pork for 2 minutes on each side or until golden and crisp. Transfer pork to a rack over a baking tray.
-
3.To assemble the sandwiches, spread all four slices of bread on one side with butter and drizzle with tonkatsu sauce. Top the sauce-side of two slices of bread with cabbage, then top with pork. Place remaining bread sauce-side down onto the pork. Gently press. Carefully cut sandwiches in half. Serve cut-side up on serving plates. Serve with hot mustard if liked.
General Information
Tips:2 x 125g trimmed boneless pork cutlets can be used for this dish. The bone-in pork cutlet is trimmed, and the bone removed so it’s easy to eat. Untrimmed, bone-in pork cutlets weight around 180g -200g each.
Known for its milky-sweet taste and pillowy softness, Japanese milk bread is available from Asian bakeries. Alternatively, use thickly sliced soft white bread or brioche bread. Alternatively, and for ease, you can make pork katsu burgers using toasted brioche burger rolls.
Panko breadcrumbs are a light and crispy Japanese-style crumb. Find them in the Asian food section in supermarkets.
Tonkatsu sauce is a Japanese sauce that is served with fried foods. It tastes like barbecue sauce. It is available in the Asian food section in supermarkets.