Katsudon is one of my favorite Japanese dishes – rice topped with deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, and onion simmered in a savory sweet sauce. It’s super simple to make, except for the deep-fried pork cutlet. One weeknight I was super craving katsudon, but had neither the ingredients nor the energy to deep-fry a pork cutlet. I did, however, have a package of frozen chicken nuggets (because left to his own devices my boyfriend eats like a 5-year old). Thus was birthed what I have come to call “Kids Menu Katsudon”, which in a pinch on a lazy weeknight satisfies the katsudon craving remarkably well.
Guessipe
- 1/2 cup dashi
- 2 TBSP soy sauce
- 2 TBSP mirin
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 onion, thinly sliced
- 15 chicken nuggets (heated according to package instructions)
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 3 green onions, thinly sliced
Stir the dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar together until the sugar is dissolved.
Spread the onion in the bottom of a nonstick skillet. Top with the heated chicken nuggets. Pour the dashi mixture over everything. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, cover and reduce the heat to maintain a simmer, cooking 3 minutes.
Pour the eggs evenly over everything and top with the green onions. Cover again and cook 3 more minutes.
Serve over rice.
