Japanese Fried Pork (Tonkatsu) Recipe
Deep-fried pork coated with panko is packed full of flavor and hard to resist. I will teach out how to make this delicious recipe at home! You can easily make it with ingredients commonly found in the supermarket.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Pork
- Salt (For Taste)
- Black Pepper (For Taste)
- 1 Cup Flour
- 1 Egg
- 2 Tbsp Water
- 1 Cup Panko
- 2 Cups Vegetable Oil (Depends on size of frying pan. You will need a depth of about 1-2 cm.)
Instructions
- Make shallow cuts on the 2 pieces of pork on both sides (watch video below for reference)
- Pound both sides of the pork with the back of the knife
- Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of the pork
- Cover the pork with flour
- Mix 1 egg with a small amount of water (~2 tbsp)
- Dip the flour-covered pork into the egg
- Cover the pork with panko. The pork can now be fried, but I like to cover the pork with flour, egg, and panko again. This creates a thicker outer layer resulting in more crunch when finished. I recommend doing a second coating with the flour, egg, and panko.
- Add vegetable oil into a frying pan until it is about 1-2 cm deep.
- Once the oil is hot, add the pork pieces and fry for 2 minutes on each side
- After frying for 2 minutes on both sides, stick a tooth pick into the pork. If nothing sticks to the toothpick, the pork cutlet is done. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the meat.
- Remove the pork cutlet from the oil, cut and sprinkle with lemon juice and salt. Tonkatsu sauce can be used as an alternative if you have it available. Please enjoy!