Donburi (Rice bowl dish) with katsu (Crispy Deep Fried Breaded Pork) served with other ingredients like egg, onions, scallions, pickled vegetables and seaweed.

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Katsu don is now a classic lunch dish in Japan, that while not very traditional, has almost become a kind of Japanese soul food. When Japanese people want a quick, hearty meal at a restaurant they’re likely to order curry, a noodle dish, or katsu don. Katsu is a fried pork cutlet.

Traditionally, most Japanese ate little …

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Donburi (Rice bowl dish) with katsu (Crispy Deep Fried Breaded Pork) served with other ingredients like egg, onions, scallions, pickled vegetables and seaweed.

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Katsu don is now a classic lunch dish in Japan, that while not very traditional, has almost become a kind of Japanese soul food. When Japanese people want a quick, hearty meal at a restaurant they’re likely to order curry, a noodle dish, or katsu don. Katsu is a fried pork cutlet.

Traditionally, most Japanese ate little or no meat, so the dish was developed after the Meiji era when Japan was opened to the wider world. A don, however, just means rice bowl, so a katsu don is a rice bowl with a katsu (and usually vegetables and egg) on top. If you live in Japan, you can probably find prepared katsu in your freezer section, in ether minced or tenderloin. There are two types of katsu, one using the fatty cut, and the other lean. If you’re in a hurry feel free to fry up a quick katsu and throw it on some rice with an egg for a quick meal. If you have a little more time, here’s a recipe from scratch. (http://morethingsjapanese.com/katsu-don/)

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