Meat-free Katsu-curry

Katsu-curry. Bouillon: shiitake, konbu seaweed. Shunizel: vegan shunizel

Menchi-katsu.

Menchi-katsu (メンチカツ) is a ground meat cutlet, and is one of a Yousyoku (Japanese cuisine that is influenced from Western cooking). Menchi and katsu are phonologically modified versions of the words "mince" and "cutlet".

Served with Japanese Worcestershire sauce or tonkatsu sauce, and sliced cabbage. Also Menchi-katsu is applied for a filling of sandwiches.

reference: wikipedia
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Sauce Katsu-don (Japanese pork cutlet rice bowl served with Japanese sauce)

I introduced standard Katsudon before.
Today I introduce other type of Katsudon, called "Sauce Katsudon".

Sauce Katsudon is the one served with special sauce that is Japanese brown sauce based.
About this dish, sauce means "Japanese brown sauce" like Bull-dog sauce or Otafuku sauce.

Sauce Katsudon Recipe:

1. Prepare the rice

2. Make Tonkatsu

How to make Tonkatsu:
http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pork/r/tonkatsu.htm


You can also use schnitzel pork meat for Tonkatsu.

3. Cut the cabbage into fine strips

4. make "Sauce Katsudon" sauce

stair well following ingredients and boil 1 min.

- JP brown sauce: 3 tbsp.
- JP soya sauce: 3 tbsp.
- kechap: 2 tbsp.
- sugar: 2 tbsp.
- water: 2tpsp.
- Dashi(Japanese fish bouillon. you can also get this in Toko): 1/4 tea spoon.

5. Serve rice in bowls, pour 2 tbsp of "4" on it. then place the cabbage.

6. Cut Tonkatsu pieces, dip both sides with "4". Then place Tonkatus on "5".

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- Japanese brown sauce.

I am not sure about other towns. About Utrecht, you can get JP brown sauce at Toko centraal (Amsterdamstraatweg).

- About Panko

If you are living in the Netherlands, you can make Panko from Dutch Bischuit.


Clash this Bischuit like this photo, you can get Japanese type Panko.
You can make Japanese fried dishes with Panko like Tonkatsu, Korokke, and Ebifurai, etc...

Katsudon (Japanese rice bowl with a pork cutlet, and egg)

I made Katsudon for our dinner last night.
Katsudon is one of a populer Japanese dish, a bowl of rice topped with a Tonkatsu, egg, and condiments.

Tonkatsu is a deep-fried pork cutlet (Japanese pork Schnitzel).
Japanese bread crumbs called "Panko", this doesn't include herbs and spice.
When you want to make Japanese bread crumbs, just grate leftover breads that are getting dry using with cheese grater.
You can also get Japanese bread crams in Japanese or Chinese shops.
But it's not practical to pay for expensive price for the product that is made from old breads.



My husband is a Dutch but he also like this dish.

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Katsudon - wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsudon