Ultimate Chicken Katsu Sandwich Recipe | Katsu Sando

Great food is universal - cultures around the world since the dawn of time have used a meal to bring people together, and we’re all about celebrating all cultures that celebrate the love. One of the most universal dishes warming up hearts around the world? Fried chicken! A culture and community we admire a ton is from the mighty people of Japan - they have style, that can be loud or subtle, creative and efficient, and just plain fun, but there’s nothing plain about this sandwich, for real. Now, we make a fantastic regular fried chicken sandy, but the Japanese style, using panko breadcrumbs, is one of our absolute favorites on Earth. Light panko breadcrumbs on evenly pounded chicken with a creamy, Kewpie (Japanese mayo) and a little smokey flavor with chipotles gives the sandwich a bite that can’t be beat, with some cabbage to give us another texture. Like our boy Godzilla, this is a Japanese original that changes the game. Get that fryer roarin’.
Ingredients
Milk bread, cut into 8 thick slices (if you can’t get milk bread, a thick, sturdy white bread works)
4 chicken thighs, pounded or rolled thing, cut to be a little bigger than the bread (any leftovers, save and fry just to snack on while eating)
1 ½ C of vegetable oil
1 C Panko bread crumbs
2 tsp of garlic powder, divided
dash of salt and pepper (twice)
½ C all-purpose flour
3 beaten eggs
½ C Kewpie Mayo (full fat mayo works if you can’t find this)
dash of lime juice
2 Tbsp sesame oil
2 Tbsp of rice wine vinegar
2 Tbsp light Soy sauce
1 ½ tsp of Japanese BBQ sauce (teriyaki works in a pinch)
½ C purple/red cabbage, finely shredded
¼ C shredded carrots
4 green onions, sliced
¼ tsp red pepper flakes
Splash of dill pickle juice
Directions
Mix the panko, 1 tsp of garlic powder and salt and pepper
Mix the Kewpie, lime juice and chipotle sauce and set it aside
Mix the cabbage, carrots, sliced green onions, rice wine vinegar, light soy sauce, pickle juice, 1 tsp of garlic powder ¼ tsp of red pepper flakes, and dash of salt and pepper, throw in the fridge
If you haven’t pounded your chicken or rolled it out in cling wrap, do that now, and then cut into sizes a little bigger than your bread slices
Set up 3 bowls, one where you mix the panko, garlic powder together, another where you mix the flour and salt and pepper, and then one just for the eggs
Cut the crusts off of all of your slices of bread
In a large skillet, heat your oil to 350 degrees
Dredge your chicken into the flour, then the eggs, then the panko, fry ‘em one at a time until golden brown
Rest the chicken on paper towels and salt immediately after it comes out of the fryer
On the bottom slice of your bread, spread the cabbage/carrot mix
On the top slice, spread the chipotle/kewpie spread
Place 1 chicken thigh onto the bread
With a sharp knife, cut the sandwich into thirds if you’re into it, and if you do or don’t…
Sink your teeth into the might Katsu Sando
Bonus Tip - This works well with veal or even thinly pounded beef, if you wanted to replace the chicken, and the slaw is awesome as a salad on it’s own, too.
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[@swapnakitchenchannel8038]

Delicious ❤❤❤❤

[@SpatchcockFunk]

So good!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@DopeAtoms]

Dope video man! I am curious if you can call it a katsu sandwich without katsu sauce 🤔 looks delicious still! I'll be back for more 🤘

[@SpatchcockFunk]

Appreciate you! So we think so. Kastu basically means cutlet the way we learned it (and we don’t speak Japanese), and Kastu sauce is totally great for this… we just liked the sweet/tangy zip from the Kewpie/Japanese bbq sauce mix w the salt/crunch and acidity from the slaw to make a well-rounded bite. But Katsu sauce would kill it. Make both and side-by-side it!