Tonkatsu

Step 2: Prepare & bread pork cutlets

Fried pork cutlet

  • Pork Chops, boneless
    2-41 lb
  • Flour
    50 g
  • Cornstarch
    25 g
  • Eggs
    2
  • Panko bread crumbs
    50 g
  • Neutral oil
    for frying
  • 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.