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Katsudon (Japanese: カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments.

The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for pork cutlet) and donburi (for rice bowl dish).

It has become a modern tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb katsu (勝つ), meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a trope in Japanese police films: that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon^[1] and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while interrogating" is popular in Japanese films. However, as of 2019^[update], police will never actually feed suspects during interrogation.^[2]

Preparation

The tonkatsu for the katsudon dish is prepared by dipping the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in panko breadcrumbs, and deep-frying.^[3] Next, into a boiling broth of dashi, soy sauce and onions, the sliced tonkatsu and a beaten egg is cooked.^[3]

Variants

Other bowls, made of cutlet and rice but without eggs or stock, may also be called katsudon. Such dishes include:

sōsu katsudon (sauce katsudon): with tonkatsu sauce^[4] or Worcestershire sauce, from regions such as Fukui, Kōfu, Gunma, Aizuwakamatsu and Komagane
demi katsudon or domi katsudon: with demi-glace and often green peas, a specialty of Okayama
shōyu-dare katsudon: with soy sauce based tare sauce, Niigata style
misokatsu-don: misokatsu [ja] tonkatsu with a sauce made with hatchō miso on rice, a favorite in Nagoya

Variants of katsudon

If pork is substituted with beef, it will be gyū-katsu-don.^[5] A variation made with chicken katsu and egg is called oyako katsudon,^[6] which is distinguished from oyakodon where the meat in the latter is not fried.

References

^ Shoji, Kaori (2008-06-10). "Investigating the linguistic allure of hard-boiled detectives". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
^ McGee, Oona; Sunakoma, Masanuki (2019-01-24). "We eat a meal to remember…at a Japanese police station in Fukuoka". SoraNews24. Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
^ ^a ^b
"Experience Japanese Home Cooking" (PDF). Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan). 2021-02-10. p4:Tonkatsu, p5:Katsudon). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
- The PDF text misses the egg-dipping step before breading the meat. The video does demonstrate it.
- video: Tonkatsu & Katsudon recipe Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- web page linking to the video and PDF: Experience Japanese Home Cooking Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ Yamada, Akira (2020-03-01). "Japanese kitchen – Sauce katsu-don". Embassy of Japan in the UK. Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
^ Doi, Yoshiharu (2016-05-14). "Sōsu katsudon" ソース牛カツ丼 [Worcestershire sauce katsudon]. TV Asahi (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
^ Urakami, Yutaka (2019-01-09). "Kitchen puipui – Oyako katsudon" キッチンぷいぷい親子カツ丼 [Kitchen puipui – parent-and-child cutlet donburi]. Mainichi Broadcasting System. Archived from the original on 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
^ ^a ^b "Tonkatsu". japan-guide.com. Retrieved 2021-08-16.

External links

[Shoji2008-1] Shoji, Kaori (2008-06-10). "Investigating the linguistic allure of hard-boiled detectives". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[Soranews2019-2] McGee, Oona; Sunakoma, Masanuki (2019-01-24). "We eat a meal to remember…at a Japanese police station in Fukuoka". SoraNews24. Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[MOFA_HomeCooking-3] "Experience Japanese Home Cooking" (PDF). Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan). 2021-02-10. p4:Tonkatsu, p5:Katsudon). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
The PDF text misses the egg-dipping step before breading the meat. The video does demonstrate it.

video: Tonkatsu & Katsudon recipe Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

web page linking to the video and PDF: Experience Japanese Home Cooking Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

[4] The PDF text misses the egg-dipping step before breading the meat. The video does demonstrate it.

[5] video: Tonkatsu & Katsudon recipe Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

[6] web page linking to the video and PDF: Experience Japanese Home Cooking Archived 2021-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

[Yamada2020-4] Yamada, Akira (2020-03-01). "Japanese kitchen – Sauce katsu-don". Embassy of Japan in the UK. Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[Doi2016-5] Doi, Yoshiharu (2016-05-14). "Sōsu katsudon" ソース牛カツ丼 [Worcestershire sauce katsudon]. TV Asahi (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 2021-08-16.

[Urakami2019-6] Urakami, Yutaka (2019-01-09). "Kitchen puipui – Oyako katsudon" キッチンぷいぷい親子カツ丼 [Kitchen puipui – parent-and-child cutlet donburi]. Mainichi Broadcasting System. Archived from the original on 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2021-08-16.

[japanguide.com_tonkatsu-7] "Tonkatsu". japan-guide.com. Retrieved 2021-08-16.

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-[[File:Katsudon and miso soup by jetalone.jpg|right|thumb|Katsudon and [[miso soup]]]]
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+{{Nihongo|'''Katsudon'''|カツ丼|lead=yes}} is a popular [[Japanese food]], a bowl of rice topped with a [[tonkatsu|deep-fried breaded pork cutlet]],
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+[[Eggs as food|egg]], [[vegetables]], and [[condiments]].
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-{{Nihongo|'''Katsudon'''|カツ丼|lead=yes}} is a popular [[Japanese food]], a bowl of rice topped with a [[tonkatsu|deep-fried pork cutlet]],
-[[egg]], [[vegetables]], and [[condiments]].
 The dish takes its name from the Japanese words ''[[tonkatsu]]'' (for pork cutlet) and ''[[donburi]]'' (for ''rice bowl dish'').
-It has become a modern [[tradition]] for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a [[homophone]] of the verb {{Nihongo||勝つ|katsu}}, meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a famous gag of Japanese police films: many people think that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while [[Interrogation|interrogating]]"  is popular in Japanese films.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pref.okayama.jp/kenkei/keimu/keimu/saiyou/03/03.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-11-14 |archive-date=2015-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222125338/http://www.pref.okayama.jp/kenkei/keimu/keimu/saiyou/03/03.html |url-status=bot: unknown }} - [[:ja:岡山県警察|岡山県警察]] 採用情報</ref>
+It has become a modern [[tradition]] for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a [[homophone]] of the verb {{Nihongo||勝つ|katsu}}, meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a [[Trope (cinema)|trope]] in Japanese police films: that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon<ref name="Shoji2008">{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/06/10/language/investigating-the-linguistic-allure-of-hard-boiled-detectives/|title=Investigating the linguistic allure of hard-boiled detectives|date=2008-06-10|access-date=2021-08-15|website=[[The Japan Times]]|last=Shoji|first=Kaori|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919092126/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/06/10/language/investigating-the-linguistic-allure-of-hard-boiled-detectives/|archive-date=2020-09-19|url-status=live|language=en}}</ref> and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while [[Interrogation|interrogating]]" is popular in Japanese films. However, {{as of|2019|lc=y}}, police will never actually feed suspects during interrogation.<ref name="Soranews2019">{{Cite web|url=https://soranews24.com/2019/01/24/we-eat-a-meal-to-remember-at-a-japanese-police-station-in-fukuoka/|title=We eat a meal to remember…at a Japanese police station in Fukuoka|date=2019-01-24|access-date=2021-08-15|website=SoraNews24|last1=McGee|first1=Oona|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124170534/https://soranews24.com/2019/01/24/we-eat-a-meal-to-remember-at-a-japanese-police-station-in-fukuoka/|archive-date=2019-01-24|url-status=live|last2=Sunakoma<!--砂子間-->|first2=Masanuki<!--正貫-->|language=en}}</ref><!--Source mentioned but lack inline attribution and page number: {{Nihongo|Why ''katsudon'' is served at interrogation|なぜ取り調べにはカツ丼が出るのか？|Naze Torishirabe ni wa Katsudon ga Deru no ka?}}, [[Media Factory]] (December 21, 2010). {{ISBN|978-4840136624}}-->
-==Variations==
-Variations include sauce katsudon (with [[tonkatsu sauce]] or [[Worcestershire sauce]], a various regions such as [[Fukui Prefecture|Fukui]], [[Kōfu]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]], [[Aizuwakamatsu]] and [[Komagane, Nagano|Komagane]]), demi katsudon or domi katsudon (with [[demi-glace]] and often [[green peas]], a specialty of [[Okayama, Okayama|Okayama]]), shio-katsudon (with salt, another Okayama variety), shōyu-dare katsudon (with [[soy sauce]], [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]] style), and [[miso]]-katsudon (a favorite in [[Nagoya, Aichi|Nagoya]]). Beef (gyū-katsu) and chicken (''[[oyakodon]]'') can substitute for the pork. [[Katsukarē]] is a variation with curry sauce instead of the usual egg.<ref name="Planet2014">{{cite book|author=Lonely Planet|title=The World's Best Spicy Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7gDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|date=1 February 2014|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74360-421-2|pages=82}}</ref>
 ==Preparation==
-A popular way of preparing the [[tonkatsu]] for the katsudon dish is to dip the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in [[panko]] breadcrumbs, and skillet frying.<ref name="Japanese Soul Cooking">{{cite book |last1=Ono |first1=Tadashi |last2=Salat |first2=Harris |title=Japanese Soul Cooking: Ramen, Tonkatsu, Tempura, and More from the Streets and Kitchens of Tokyo and Beyond |date=2013 |publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |isbn=9781607743538 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mF4me5AKc-wC&pg=PT306&dq=katsudon&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn3Mna2dzqAhXDYjUKHSjUDigQ6AEwAHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=tonkatsu&f=false |accessdate=20 July 2020}}</ref>
+The [[tonkatsu]] for the katsudon dish is prepared by dipping the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in [[panko]] breadcrumbs, and deep-frying.<ref name="MOFA_HomeCooking" /> Next, into a boiling broth of [[dashi]], [[soy sauce]] and [[onion]]s, the sliced tonkatsu and a beaten egg is cooked.<ref name="MOFA_HomeCooking">{{Cite web|url=https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/experience/images/home.pdf|title=Experience Japanese Home Cooking|date=2021-02-10|access-date=2021-08-15|website=[[Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815153610/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/experience/images/home.pdf|archive-date=2021-08-15|url-status=live|at=p4:Tonkatsu, p5:Katsudon)|language=en}}
+* The PDF text misses the egg-dipping step before breading the meat. The video does demonstrate it.
+* video: [https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/homecooking/katsu/?muted=true Tonkatsu & Katsudon recipe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815202035/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/homecooking/katsu/?muted=true |date=2021-08-15 }}<!--archive.org fails to archive it-->
+* web page linking to the video and PDF: [https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/all/ Experience Japanese Home Cooking] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815202033/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/all/ |date=2021-08-15 }}</ref>
+{{anchors|Variations|variations|variants}}
-<gallery>
+==Variants==
-Sauce Katsudon.jpg|Sauce katsudon in Tokyo
+Other bowls, made of cutlet and rice but without eggs or stock, may also be called ''katsudon''. Such dishes include:
-Fukui sause katsudon.jpg|Sauce katsudon in [[Tsuruga, Fukui]]
+* ''sōsu katsudon'' (sauce katsudon): with [[tonkatsu sauce]]<ref name="Yamada2020">{{Cite web|url=https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2015/11/kitchen.html|title=Japanese kitchen – Sauce katsu-don|date=2020-03-01|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Embassy of Japan in the UK|last=Yamada|first=Akira|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815193442/https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2015/11/kitchen.html|archive-date=2021-08-15|url-status=live|language=en}}</ref> or [[Worcestershire sauce]], from regions such as [[Fukui Prefecture|Fukui]], [[Kōfu]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]], [[Aizuwakamatsu]] and [[Komagane, Nagano|Komagane]]
-Aidukatudon.jpg|Sauce katsudon in Aizuwakamatsu
+* ''demi katsudon'' or ''domi katsudon'': with [[demi-glace]] and often [[green peas]], a specialty of [[Okayama, Okayama|Okayama]]
-Domikatsudon Okayama.JPG|Demi-glace sauce katsudon in Okayama
+* ''shōyu-dare katsudon'': with [[soy sauce]] based [[tare sauce]], [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]] style
-Yofu Katsudon, Restaurant Nakata, Nagaoka.jpg|Ketchup sauce katsudon called ''Yōfū'' (western style) ''katsudon'' in [[Nagaoka, Niigata]]
+* ''misokatsu-don'': ''{{ill|misokatsu|ja|味噌カツ}}'' [[tonkatsu]] with a sauce made with [[hatchō miso]] on rice, a favorite in [[Nagoya, Aichi|Nagoya]]
-TareKatsudon Matsuriya.jpg|Soy sauce katsudon in Niigata
+<gallery caption="Variants of katsudon" mode=packed heights>
+Sauce Katsudon.jpg
+Fukui sause katsudon.jpg
+Aidukatudon.jpg
+TareKatsudon Matsuriya.jpg
 </gallery>
+If pork is substituted with beef, it will be ''[[gyū-katsu]]-don''.<ref name="Doi2016">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/okazu/contents/onair/backnumber/2016052/|title=Sōsu katsudon|date=2016-05-14|access-date=2021-08-16|website=[[TV Asahi]]|last=Doi<!--土井-->|first=Yoshiharu<!--善晴-->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625051958/http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/okazu/contents/onair/backnumber/2016052/|archive-date=2016-06-25|url-status=dead|language=ja|script-title=ja:ソース牛カツ丼|trans-title=Worcestershire sauce katsudon}}</ref> A variation made with [[chicken katsu]] and egg is called ''oyako katsudon'',<ref name="Urakami2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbs.jp/puipui/pm_kitchen/2019/01/09.shtml|title=Kitchen puipui – Oyako katsudon|date=2019-01-09|access-date=2021-08-16|website=[[Mainichi Broadcasting System]]|last=Urakami<!--浦上-->|first=Yutaka<!--浩-->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902150114/https://www.mbs.jp/puipui/pm_kitchen/2019/01/09.shtml|archive-date=2019-09-02|url-status=live|language=|script-title=ja:キッチンぷいぷい 親子カツ丼|trans-title=Kitchen ''puipui'' – parent-and-child cutlet donburi}}<!--pronunciation of the chef's name is deduced from [https://www.amakaratecho.jp/osaka-food/april/urakami.html]--></ref> which is distinguished from ''[[oyakodon]]'' where the meat in the latter is not fried.
 ==See also==
 {{Portal|Japan|Food}}
-*[[Donburi]]
+* [[Donburi]]: Japanese bowls of food on rice
+** [[Gyūdon]]: with simmered beef
-*[[Unadon]]
+** [[Oyakodon]]: with chicken and egg
-*[[Tonkatsu]]
-*[[Gyūdon]]
+** [[Unadon]]: with eel
+* [[Tonkatsu]]: deep fried pork cutlet
+** [[Katsukarē]]: another tonkatsu dish with curry sauce and without eggs<!--Japanese would not even imagine that katsudon and katsukarē are variants of each other, and curry sauce and eggs could be interchangeable.-->,<ref name="japanguide.com_tonkatsu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2339.html|title=Tonkatsu|access-date=2021-08-16|website=japan-guide.com|language=en}}</ref> served in a plate with spoon, not in a bowl with chopsticks.<ref name="japanguide.com_tonkatsu" />
+* [[Escalope]]
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-*[http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pork/r/katsudon.htm Katsudon Recipe]
-*なぜ取り調べにはカツ丼が出るのか？ [[:ja:メディアファクトリー|メディアファクトリー]] (2010/12/21) {{ISBN|978-4840136624}}
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