Chicken Katsu Recipe

The recipe I’m following is from Joshua, source: The Easiet Homemade Chicken Katsu - Joshua Weissman

Ingredients

Chicken Katsu

• Chicken breast
• Egg
• Panko
• Flour
• Salt
• Light miso (optional)

Tonkatsu Sauce

• 3 tsp (42 g) Ketchup
• 1 tsp (14 g) Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp (14 g) Oyster sauce
• 1 tsp (14 g) Light miso (optional)
• 1 tsp (14 g) Honey

Spicy Cabbage Slaw

• Cabbage
• Salt
• Green onion
• Crispy chili garlic or Chili oil
• Lemon juice

Sandwich

• Bread
• Mayonnaise

Method

The methods is split into three parts, the chicken katsu, the tonkatsu sauce, the cabbage slaw and the sandwich that combines all three.

Chicken Katsu

1. Prepare the chicken
   1. Make the chicken flat by pounding it with a meat mallot or something you can hit it with :)
   2. Salt the chicken.
   3. Rub it with light miso (optional).

2. Breading Station

   1. One bowl with all-purpose flour.
   2. One bowl with beated egg and a little bit of water.
   3. One bowl with panko.

   These can be kept in the fridge for 3 days covered.

3. Bread the chicken

   Bread the chicken using the order in the previous step.

4. Fry the chicken

   1. 470 mL frying oil.
   2. Heat the oil up to 160 ℃ to 175 ℃.
   3. Lay the breaded chicken in the oil away from you.
   4. Fry to 3 to 5 minutes or until crispy golden brown. If it is burning too quickly, turn the heat down.
   5. Flip it over and then fry it additional 3 to 5 minutes or until internal temperature of 70 to 75 ℃ is reached.
   6. Place the done chicken on wire rack over the baking sheet and let it cool.
   7. Repeat with all the rest of your chickens.

Tonkatsu Sauce

Mix these ingredients together.

• 3 tsp (42 g) Ketchup
• 1 tsp (14 g) Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp (14 g) Oyster sauce
• 1 tsp (14 g) Light miso (optional)
• 1 tsp (14 g) Honey

Spicy Cabbage Slaw

1. Thinly slice the cabbage and put in a bowl.
2. Add salt.
3. Bruise and squeeze it.
4. Add thinly sliced green onions.
5. Add crispy chili garlic or chili oil.
6. Add lemon juice.
7. Mix it up and taste it and add salt if needed.

Tonkatsu Chicken Sandwich

1. Cut the chicken katsu so that it fits the bread.
2. Add the cabbage slaw.
3. Cut the chicken katsu so that it fits the bread and add it to the bread.
4. Add the tonkatsu sauce.
5. Add some Mayonnaise.