Pork Katsu Sandwich on Japanese Milk Bread
Crispy fried pork cutlet on soft milk bread with tangy cabbage and katsu sauce
Ingredients
- 5 thinly sliced boneless pork chops trimmed and pounded out
- 8 slices Japanese milk bread sub wonder bread
- 2 eggs whisked
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 cups panko flakes
- 1/2 green cabbage thinly sliced
- 2 tsp white vinegar
- 2 tbsp mayo more or less to taste
- dijon mustard
- katsu sauce see my link in the post
- salt and pepper
- oil for frying
Instructions
- Trim any fat from the edges of the pork chops, then place them into a large ziploc bag one and a time and pound them with a meat tenderizer to get them nice and tender. If they are thin cut you don't really need to pound them all that much.
- Cut the crusts off your bread. Set your cute bread squares aside. Thinly cut your cabbage either by hand or with a mandolin like I show in my Leek Orzo with Fried Eggs post. Add the vinegar and some salt and the mayo. Mix and taste and adjust your seasoning. Set aside.
- Set up your oil in a wide pot (I use my deep frying pan for this) with a deep fry thermometer. If you don’t have one of those, it is soooo useful when deep frying and really changed how crispy and perfectly fried my food comes out.
- Set up your ingredients for breading. Place the flour onto a plate, and put your eggs into a shallow bowl. Put your panko into another shallow dish. Line a cookie sheet with foil to place your breaded pork on. Line another sheet with paper towels to drain the cooked pork. Dip each pork chop in the flour first, shaking off any excess. Then dip into the egg, then into the panko. Press the panko onto the pork so it is fully covered and place on the foil lined sheet. Heat your oil 350. Fry a few pieces of pork at a time, for about 4-5 minutes until dark golden brown and cooked through. Drain on paper towels and fry the next batch. Sprinkle hot pork with salt.
- Spread some dijon onto both slices of bread. Place your pork patty onto one half and top with cabbage. Drizzle on some katsu sauce. Top with other bread slice, cut in half, and serve with more katsu sauce on the side.
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