Who is "Katsu Curry Paste" !?
In England, especially in London, it seems that "Katsu curry", which originated in Japan, is gaining popularity due to the growing popularity of Japanese food. That's fine, but for some reason, it is said
that supermarkets in London sell even "Katsu curry paste" . suspicious. It's too suspicious. Did you grind the cutlet curry !?
By chance, an acquaintance visited London, so I actually bought it. When I tried to eat it while being terribly nervous, it was a betrayal.
I got a bottled product called "KATSU CURRY PASTE". It is sold by the supermarket "TESCO", and according to the company's mail-order site, it can be purchased for about £ 2.
The contents are unexpectedly normal. When I licked it, it was sour! It's sour. On the other hand, the spice flavor that gradually comes afterwards. It seems that it is contained enough to sweat slowly.
However, I can't find the wreckage of Katsu curry that I was afraid of. There is something with a rough texture, but there is no cutlet-like meatiness (?).
Looking at the ingredient display, mirin rice wine and soy sauce-that is, mirin and soy sauce are used. Also, tomato paste, concentrated lemon juice, onion puree, rapeseed oil, various spices, etc. strange. You can't find the cutlet element at all!
The recipe was written on the package, so I opened it. What we make is "Chicken Katsu Curyy". Yes,
the cutlet curry paste was the material for making chicken cutlet curry .
I mean ... "Curry paste" is fine without adding "cutlet" to the product name! I want you to return these few days when I was wondering how to eat "Katsu curry-flavored paste". I just misunderstood it, but I feel like I was deceived.
By the way, in London, chicken cutlets often come out when you ask for "KATSU". The cutlet curry offered by the Asian restaurant chain "WAGAMAMA", which is said to be at the center of the boom, is also "chicken cutlet curry" (and rice is on top of the cutlet!).
There may be various reasons why cutlet is chicken instead of pork, but Japanese curry is cutlet curry, and cutlet curry is chicken cutlet curry.
Although I was disappointed with the disappointing result, it may be a seasoning that makes the cutlet curry dramatically delicious. So, let's make chicken cutlet curry with the TESCO recommended recipe.
page How to make Tesco style cutlet curry
【material】
Chicken breast sliced in half (2 pieces), flour (4 tablespoons), egg (1 piece), bread crumbs (80 g), oil (6 tablespoons), water (50 ml), cutlet curry paste (1 jar)
[How to make]
1. Sprinkle the chicken in the order of flour, egg and bread crumbs.
2. Warm the oiled frying pan and cook the chicken one side at a time. Remove from frying pan and rest on kitchen paper for 2 minutes.
3. On the other hand, put cutlet curry paste and water in a pan, mix and heat over low heat.
4. Sprinkle the sauce over the chicken and add basmati rice (long grain rice) when serving.
The recipe was translated by the author as faithfully as possible. As you can see, it's mostly an explanation of how to make chicken katsu. Moreover, it is explained in quite detail.
I think it's more important to season the chicken than to "rest for 2 minutes" ... After frying the cutlet, slice it into thin slices and rice (I'm sorry it's not Basmati rice). ) And sprinkle with curry sauce. It looks awkward because of my skill, but the cutlet curry made from cutlet curry paste is completed.
I buy fried food and go home, so I don't make it at home ... (excuse)
Roux (sauce) is quite smooth. When entwined with cutlet, I feel that the clothes are sucking well. When eaten with cutlet and rice, the acidity that was noticeable with the paste alone is not so noticeable, and the balance is much better. Perhaps the source of the acidity is tomato paste and lemon juice, so it goes well with meat. Like the sauce.
Certainly, it may have a scale that it is a curry paste "for cutlet curry".
However, I would like to argue that this taste is not so common in Katsu curry and, by extension, Japanese curry. Katsu curry fans in London. Please come to Japan and eat Japanese cutlet curry. Of course, a curry with a thick and thick pork cutlet on shiny Japanese rice.
However, you may be surprised that "I ordered cutlet curry in Japan and the pork cutlet came out!". However, on the other hand, katsudon seems to be popular with tourists visiting Japan, and I feel that even Japanese katsu curry has the potential to cause a big boom.