The Improper Way: Cheese Katsudon

katsudon?

I don't know why but I always end up ordering a katsudon with a sweet sauce (forgot the exact name) whenever I got to a katsu house.  It's weird because I'm not really a fan of it...it's too sweet for me.

I wanted to try to make it at home and perfectly I found a recipe from pepper.ph that will balance the saltiness and sweetness of the dish because cheese is added to the recipe.

If you want to know how to properly make it then head over to www.pepper.ph because here I'll be showing how to make Cheese Katsudon the illegal/improper let's say the faster and untraditional way?

Cheese Chicken Katsodun

Ingredients:
Chicken Katsu
1/2 kilo chicken breast fillet
salt and pepper
1/2 cup flour
1 beaten egg
1 cup bread crumbs
oil for frying

Sauce
1 cup water
1/4 cup Kikkoman soy sauce
1/2 piece of chicken cubes
*1 tbps or more depending on your level of sweetness but this is optional

Other Ingredients
2 tbsp. oil
1 white onion, sliced
4 beaten eggs
2 stalks leeks, sliced diagonally
1 cup grated cheese
and of course, RICE

How to:
Katsu:
1.  Start with the katsu.  Clean and pat dry the chicken fillets then season it lightly with salt and pepper.
2.  Coat all the chicken with the flour.
3.  Pour over the chicken the 1 beaten egg, then work it until all the fillets are coated with egg. (see how improper this is?)
4.  Next heat the oil in a pan.
5.  While the pan is heating, coat the fillets with bread crumbs.
6.  Then fry!  It'll take a minute or two for each side of the chicken.  Drain excess oil and set aside.

I burnt some because I was headbanging when Jam88.3 played a block party song

Sauce
1.  Boil all the sauce ingredients until the chicken cube is melted.
2.  Set aside but keep warm.

Finally, assembly
1.  Sliced the fillets into long strips, keeping the pieces together though.  Set aside.
2.  Heat oil in pan and sautee the onion.
3.  Add the eggs and when it's half cook, top it with the chicken fillets.
4.  Pour the sauce.
5.  Add on the top of the fillets the leeks and cheese.

melting the cheese!

6.  Cover the pan and let everything cooked over medium heat until the cheese is semi-melted.
7.  Serve with rice.

I'm always in a hurry when I make this because I need to go to work and only have an hour time to cook which explains why I make and assemble everything in one pan instead of fillet by fillet.

the family thinks this is yummy!

Well, I hope this crazy method of mine helps you in your cooking :P

Enjoy!

Thanks for reading. Till then. Bye!

Pasta in Tomato Sauce

I always thought that pasta in red sauce in some restaurant are hard and expensive to make.  Wrong!  10 ingredients, that's all I need to make a simple yet delicious pasta with tomato sauce thanks to taste.com.au for the recipe.

promise it's tastier than what it looks like

Tomato Pasta Sauce

from taste.com.au

Ingredients:

1 tbs olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 onion, sliced
1 tbs tomato paste
2 x 400g cans chopped peeled tomatoes
salt and ground black pepper
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup chopped basil
1/3 cup chopped flat leaf parsley

main ingredients

How to:
1.  Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and onion and cook for 3-4 minutes until softened but not browned.

2.  Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring constantly for 1 minute (this 'cooks off' the paste, giving it a richer more intense flavour).

3.  Add the peeled tomatoes, reduce the heat and simmer for 8-10 minutes, until thickened.

4.  Stir through the salt and pepper, sugar, basil and parsley, adjusting the seasoning as required.

Note:  You can add a teaspoon of sugar if you want your sauce to be a little sweeter :)

I usually cook at night and the lighting in our home is really poor

Pour over your favorite pasta and maybe put some cheese on top and voila, yummy and healthy(?) meal!  Even my nephew like this and my sister commented that the sauce tasted like the the seafood pasta that we ate at Burgoo sans the seafood.

Give it a try, it's so easy (unless you hate tomato based pasta).

Thanks for reading. Till then. Bye!