Katsudon
- 2 cups cooked short-grain white rice (rinse well before cooking to remove the starch)
- 3 eggs
- 2 (4-ounce) boneless pork chops
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs {Japanese}
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 1 cup dashi stock
- 1/2 cup mirin (sweet rice cooking wine)
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 green onions sliced into 1-inch pieces
- Prepare the rice 1 hour before the meal.
- Beat 1 of the eggs in a bowl and dredge the pork cutlets in it and then into the bread crumbs.
- Fry them in hot oil until golden and tender, drain on paper towels.
- Slice the cutlets on the bias into 1/2-inch strips.
- Bring the dashi, mirin, and soy sauce to a boil in a pot.
- Then add the sliced green onion, and simmer until soft.
- Half fill 2 deep bowls with the rice.
- Arrange 1 sliced cutlet on the rice in each bowl to look like it is intact.
- Whisk the eggs in a bowl then pour slowly over the onion into the dashi in the pot.
- When the egg is nearly set, stir once.
- Ladle half of the egg mass on top of the pork in each bowl.
- Then ladle more broth among the bowls.
- You may not need to use it all.
- Serve immediately.
white rice, eggs, pork chops, bread crumbs japanese, vegetable oil, dashi stock, mirin, soy sauce, green onions
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/katsudon-recipe.html (may not work)