Kushikatsu
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Kushikatsu (串カツ), also known as kushiage (串揚げ), is a Japanese dish of deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables.[1][2] In Japanese, kushi (串) refers to the skewers used[1] while katsu means a deep-fried cutlet of meat.
The Shinsekai neighborhood of Osaka is famous for its kushikatsu.[3] Kushikatsu restaurants specialize in the dish.[4]
Ingredients
Kushikatsu can be made with chicken, pork, seafood, and seasonal vegetables.[1] These are skewered on bamboo kushi; dipped in egg, flour, and panko; and deep-fried in vegetable oil. They may be served straight or with tonkatsu sauce.
- Meat
- beef (gyūniku), pork meat (butaniku) and cartilage (nankotsu), sausage, chicken parts including tsukune (minced), gizzard (sunagimo), skin (torikawa), and horse meat (baniku). Chicken egg and Japanese quail egg.
- Seafood
- Atlantic horse mackerel (aji), Japanese smelt-whitings (kisu), shishamo smelt, wakasagi blackwater smelt, prawn and shrimp (ebi), Japanese scallop (hotate or kaibashira), oyster (kaki), octopus (tako), squid and cuttlefish (ika).
- Vegetable
- onion, egg plant (nasu), bamboo shoot (takenoko), okra, tomato, poteto, sweet potato, Chinese yam (nagaimo), bell pepper (pīman), lotus root (renkon), greater burdock (gobō), pumpkin (kabocha), broccoli, asparagus, shiitake mashroom, garlic and shishito pepper.
- Products and prepared
- fish products - chikuwa, hanpen and kamaboko.
- dairy - hard, cream, and smoked cheese.
- prepared - bell pepper stuffed with minced pork, asparagus wrapped with bacon strips, chikuwa filled with hard cheese. Mochi rice cakes. Dumplings including Jiaozi (gyōza), shūmai, and beni shōga pickled ginger root colored bright pink.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Rowthorn, C. (2007). Japan. Country Guides. Lonely Planet. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-74104-667-0.
- ^ Suzuki, R. (2005). Cocina Japonesa. Secretos de la cocina. Origo Chile. p. Pt-79. ISBN 978-956-8077-28-0.
- ^ "Kushikatsu". Gurunavi, Inc. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ History Of Japanese Food. Taylor & Francis. 2014. pp. 247–248. ISBN 978-1-136-60255-9.
Further reading
- O'Donoghue, J.J. (July 22, 2014). "Pancotei: 'Kushikatsu' morsels prepared with obsessive care". The Japan Times. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
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