Tonkatsu とんかつ
A thick pork cutlet coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. It is usually served as a set meal with shredded cabbage, rice and miso soup.
About Tonkatsu
- What it is: Breaded, deep-fried pork, a little like schnitzel. Choose hire (lean tenderloin) or rosu (fattier loin).
- How to eat it: With mustard and tonkatsu sauce, a thick Worcestershire-style sauce, drizzled on or for dipping.
- Katsu sando: Tonkatsu and shredded cabbage in white bread with sauce or mayonnaise. It is a popular takeaway at railway stations and kiosks.
- Other dishes: Katsudon is tonkatsu cooked with egg and onion over rice, and katsu curry comes topped with curry sauce.
- Where to try it: Tonkatsu restaurants, set-meal canteens, and as bento or katsu sando at convenience stores and department-store food halls. Restaurant tonkatsu is roughly 800 to 1,500 yen.
SeasonAll year
Checked against: Tonkatsu | japan-guide.com · Curry Rice | japan-guide.com.
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