Katsu Sando カツサンド
The best Katsu Sando recipe with shokupan Japanese milk bread, Tonkatsu and shredded cabbage with step by step photos and a video
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 slices Shokupan Japanese milk bread (*1)
- 1 tbsp margarine
- 1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
- 1/2 tsp mustard
- 2 pieces pork (*2)
- pinch of salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
- 3 tbsp water
- 4 tbsp plain flour
- 1 cup Panko bread crumbs (*3)
- vegetable Oil (for deep frying)
- 2 tbsp Tonkatsu sauce
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1 cup shredded cabbage (*4)
Instructions
- 1
Combine Japanese mayonnaise, margarine and mustard in a small mixing bowl and set aside.
- 2
Place the pork on a chopping board and tenderize with a meat mallet.
- 3
Shape the meat to size the same size of the bread that will be used.
- 4
Apply pinch of salt and pepper over the pork.
- 5
Combine egg, water and Japanese mayonnaise in a medium mixing bowl and whisk.
- 6
Add flour and mix them all together to make batter.
- 7
Dip the shaped meat carefully to keep the shape with your hands.
- 8
Coat the meat well with the batter.
- 9
Scatter the Panko breadcrumbs on shallow container.
- 10
Place the pork coated with batter on the panko breadcrumbs.
- 11
Coat the pork well with panko breadcrumbs.
- 12
Heat deep frying oil to 170 °C (338°F) in a fryer or frying pan. *5
- 13
Once the oil temperature reached desirable temperature, deep fry the pork for about 8-10 minutes. *6
- 14
When it is cooked remove from the oil onto a tray lined with kitchen paper and set aside.
- 15
Combine tonkatsu sauce and tomato sauce. Set aside.
- 16
Place two slices of bread on a chopping board.
- 17
Spread the margarine, mayonnaise and mustard mixture thinly and evenly.
- 18
Place 1/2 cup of shredded cabbage on to a bread.
- 19
Drizzle the tonkatsu sauce generously over one side of the Katsu.
- 20
Place the tonkatsu sauce drizzled side down onto the cabbage.
- 21
Drizzle more tonkatsu sauce mixture generously over the another side of the pork.
- 22
Place a piece of bread on top of the fried pork to sandwich.
- 23
Put a flat plate over the bread and place weight on for 5 minutes.
- 24
After 5 minutes, remove the plate and weight and cut it in half to serve.