Tonkatsu

Step 2: Prepare & bread pork cutlets

  • Fried pork cutlet

    • neutral oil
      for frying
    • pork chops
      , boneless
      2-41 lb
    • flour
      50 g
    • cornstarch
      25 g
    • eggs
      2
    • panko bread crumbs
      50 g
    • salt
      to taste

Pound or slice the boneless pork chops to roughly 3/4 (19 mm) thick. Sprinkle salt evenly over the exterior of both sides.

Place a wok over medium heat and add enough neutral oil for deep frying about 2 inches high in the pan.

Meanwhile, in three separate trays or plates add the cornstarch + flour into one tray, the beaten egg into the next, and the panko bread crumbs into the last.

Bread the pork cutlets by first coating the exterior in the flour/starch mixture, followed by the egg before finishing in the panko bread crumbs. Push down on the bread crumbs to ensure it sticks to their exterior.

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