In Japanese, don(丼) means something served on a bowl of rice, often meat dishes. One very popular "don" is katsu-don(カツ丼), fried pork cutlet cooked with egg, almost like an omelet. Katsu-don is made at home or served in most restaurants.You can put a Japanese twist on the typical pork cutlet. The recipe below is for one serving.
Ingredients:
- Boneless pork: 1
- onion: 1/4
- egg: 1
- flour
- egg
- breadcrumbs
- dashi (stock): 1/2 cup
- soy sauce: 1-1/2 Tbsp.
- mirin(sweet cooking sake): 1 Tbsp.
- sugar: 1/4 Tbsp.
- Pound the meat with a steak tenderizer and season with salt and pepper.
- Dip the meat in 1 flour, 2 beaten egg, and 3 breadcrumbs and fry thoroughly in oil at about 160ºC (320ºF).
- After frying, cut the pork cutlet into 2cm thick slices.
- Slice the onion thinly.
- Mix the sauce ingredients together in a saucepan until just boiling.
- Pour the sauce into a frying pan and boil the onions.
- Add the pork cutlet to the frying pan. Cover with a beaten egg and cook until the egg sets.
- Fill a large bowl not quite full of rice and pork and egg on top.
- Garnish with a bit of parsley, green peas, or thinly sliced nori seaweed.
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