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East at Home - Demi-glace Sauce Dish with Pork Cutlet (Tonkatsu) and Ketchup Rice - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make East at Home - Demi-glace Sauce Dish with Pork Cutlet (Tonkatsu) and Ketchup Rice.
Here is a recipe that can easily recreate the local dish "Esukaroppu" from Nemuro-city, Hokkaido. This time, we used ketchup rice, put pork cutlet (tonkatsu) on the well-seasoned ketchup rice, poured demi-glace sauce and it's ready. Please try it out and we hope you like it. *"Esukaroppu" is a registered trademark or a trademark of the restaurant, "Dorian".
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Cook time

30 minutes

Ingredients
2 servings

  • とんかつ
  • Pork loin
    200 g
  • Salt and pepper mix
    1/4 tsp
  • Panko-breadcrumbs
    3 tbsp
  • Cake flour (Pastry flour)
    2 tbsp
  • Beaten eggs
    1/2
  • Frying oil
    as needed
  • Cabbage
    40 g
  • ケチャップライス
  • Rice
    400 g
  • Onion
    1/2
  • Ham
    2 sheets
  • (A)Ketchup
    2 tbsp
  • (A)Granulated Japanese consomme soup stock
    1/2 tsp
  • (A)Salt and pepper mix
    a pinch
  • Salted butter
    5 g
  • ソース
  • Ketchup
    4 tbsp
  • Thickened Japanese worcestershire sauce
    4 tbsp
  • Red wine
    2 tbsp

How to make

  1. 1. Shred cabbage.
  2. 2. Dice the onion and ham.
  3. 3. Cut the grain of the pork loins and beat it with a rolling pin. Sprinkle salt and pepper mix on both sides.
  4. 4. Coat in the order of cake flour (pastry flour), beaten egg, and panko breadcrumbs. Pour 0.8-inch depth of frying oil into a pan, heat to 170℃ (338°F) for about 5 minutes until cooked through and golden brown, then drain the oil.
  5. 5. Cut Step 4 into 0.8-inch pieces.
  6. 6. Heat pan over medium heat, add salted butter and Step 2, and stir-fry until the onion is transparent.
  7. 7. Add rice and stir-fry over medium heat, once it's mixed well, add (A), and remove from the heat when everything is mixed well.
  8. 8. Add the sauce ingredients to another pan, bring to a boil over medium heat, and turn off the heat.
  9. 9. Place Step 7, Step 1, and Step 5 on a plate, drizzle Step 8 on top, and it's ready to serve.

Tips for cooking

Please adjust the amount of salt to your taste. The sauce is simply made to demi-glace-alike sauce, but you can also use store-bought demi-glace sauce instead.

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