Tonkatsu Pork

Served with tonkatsu sauce and japanese potato salad

Japanese is my husband, Barry's, favourite cuisine. I love it too, but if I'm honest, I find chinese is far tastier. Hence, chinese is my favourite, as many of you know.

However, sometimes I feel as he is subjected to so much chinese food I should occasionally cook something for him. Does that make me selfish, I guess so LOL

This recipe was adapted from Meals in minutes, Asian I've had this book a long time and having googled it, was extremely fed up to see it's only 1p through Amazon, I paid a whopping 11.90 euros!

1 pork tenderloin
2 tbsps light soy sauce
2 tbsps mirin
1 clove garlic, minced
1 egg, beaten
japanese panko breadcrumbs
sushi ginger

With a meat mallet, gently pound the tenderloin between 2 sheets of plastic wrap until about 2 inches thick, then cut in half to give 2 equal pieces of 2 inch thick pork.

Combine sauce, mirin & garlic in a large bowl. Add the pork and coat well. Dip pork in egg & coat with the breadcrumbs.

Heat vegetable oil in a large saute pan, shallow fry the pork until browned on both sides and cooked through. Drain on kitchen paper.

Slice the pork pieces and serve topped with the sushi ginger, together with tonkatsu sauce.