Hello guys! I'm Amanda~
Today I will make Gyukatsu.
I had Gyukatsu a long time ago when I was in Japan.
The biggest trend was a half-cooked pork cutlet at that time.
It was a very thick pork cutlet
and I felt like it wasn't cooked completely.
I had it a long time ago
and I was thinking like why people wouldn't cook this with beef?
I was like it would be really nice with beef.
Honestly, I thought this for a second, and I forgot about it.
I really don't expect Gyukatsu to become a big trend now.
If I knew it, I would have opened my own restaurant so I can make a lot of money.
Well, what can I do? I should leave my old memories here.
It's really nice to cook this at home.
First, you need to toast bread.
I'm sure you guys are wondering why we need to toast bread for Gyukatsu.
Because I personally prefer homemade bread crumbs.
Cut the edge of the toasted bread.
Put it into a blender.
You only need a few seconds.
Toast crumb should be like this way, so it's thick and rough.
Put it at 120 degrees in the oven for 10 mins.
Whisk an egg, and we also need flour and bread crumbs.
Here we go, 3 important ingredients for fries.
Put salt and pepper on both sides.
Put flour on beef gradationally
and eggs
also, make sure to coat it with bread crumbs as well.
Whenever you cook fries, don't forget to keep your hand dry when touching the powder
so other hands can touch the egg.
Coat the beef with bread crumbs lightly and slowly.
The important thing is to coat it equally and thinly.
Bread crumbs are quite thick and rough
so the surface of Kyukatsu will be quite rough once we fry them.
The texture will be very crunchy.
Have you ever experienced the batter getting separated?
Then coat the beef with flour, egg, and bread crumb then wait for a bit
so that they all mix well. We would have no problem then :)
Now we need a deep fryer.
The temperature has to be high to fry Kyukatsu.
180-200 degrees is perfect.
If it is below 200 degrees, just fry it for like 40 seconds.
Don't forget to flip it over.
If it's 180 degrees, you can just fry them for a minute.
Make sure to take it out when it gets golden brown and shake the oil.
Look at this. I fried them at 200 degrees for 40 seconds.
It's basically the same as beefsteak. When you shake oil,
the beef becomes very juicy.
Please make sure to keep the beef juice, when you cut it.
Look at this outer layer!
The color is very even. It's so perfect!
This was fried for 3 mins.
It's quite similar to the one that was fried at 180 degrees for a min and rested for 3-5 mins.
You can even compare the Kyukatsu fried at different degrees.
The way to cook Kyukatsu,
I think it just simply coats the beef with one layer of fry.
If we fry them like this,
The outer layer is very crunchy so the texture is perfect!
Also, Kyukatsu is cooked completely.
Just like it was cooked for 3 minutes.
The thing is if you cook in that way, it becomes overcooked.
I think it's better to fry them so that it's soft.
They put salt and black pepper on beef at a foreign restaurant
and they fry it right away. The good thing about this it's fried evenly.
Let me slice it so we can compare. Look at this surface! It's cooked very well.
This one coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs isn't like that.
So, you can see it's cooked well.
It got bigger, rounding off 1/5.
It's so delicious if we cook this way!
I'd like to ask your big favor that we also need other things!
Let me make this like a fancy dish
You can easily find Kyukatsu dish at a Japanese restaurant,
you often see that they grind yam and serve it.
Peel the fresh yam and grind.
On top of the warm rice,
put the fresh yam.
Diced green onion and katsuobushi.
A little bit of soy sauce.
Cut lettuce.
Put wasabi right next to a slice of Kyukatsu.
Pour soy sauce
and pickled ginger would be also great to have!
If you have an electronic grill machine
or any kitchen tool to cook steak,
it's nice to cook Kyukatsu one more time.
It's like two birds killed with one stone!
You will feel like having steak and pork cutler together.
Try rice covered with yam and Kyukatsu dipped into soy sauce.
A little bit of wasabi
If you eat it like this, it's like three birds with one stone!
No... wait! it's like four birds with one stone!
Because there are steak, pork cutlet, fresh yam, and warm rice!
Yam is like sauce.
Just like you dip into the raw egg when you have sushi.
Kyukatsu and rice give you
perfect texture slippery and softly.
The scent of Kyukatsu cooked one more time and
combination of soy sauce, kastuobushi, salty and spicy taste of wasabi and green onion
also sticky yam and warm rice!
You can all taste it together :)
Other than that, you can cut beef
and coat it with flour, egg, bread crumbs just like before
and after frying them
at similar degrees and time,
it's like popcorn chicken!
I can just call them Col-pop chicken!
Wow… I'm really satisfied every time I have a bite!
Lastly, this year is the year of the cow.
Why don't you guys cook Kyukatsu?
And let’s all wish for good luck this year :)