Kushikatsu recipe - ingredients, nutrition and when to eat it
Kushikatsu is a Japanese skewer dish made by coating pork, shrimp, and vegetables in breadcrumbs and frying them until crisp.
Kushikatsu is a Japanese skewer dish made by coating pork, shrimp, and vegetables in breadcrumbs and frying them until crisp. It’s perfect for an evening or weekend meal when you’re craving something hearty and crunchy.
Japanese · 35 minutes to cook
Nutrition (per 371.3g serving): 616.7 kcal · protein 37.5g · carbohydrate 56g · fat 25.4g · sodium 653.2mg
Nutrition source: one serving calculated from an ingredient table verified against "National Integrated Food Nutrient Database (standard data)" (Korea MFDS, RDA and Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries via the Public Data Portal).
Tips: Pat the ingredients completely dry so the coating doesn’t come off.
Tips: Adding too many skewers at once lowers the oil temperature, so fry them in batches of 2–3.
Tips: Serve the tonkatsu sauce separately to keep the skewers crisp longer.
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Ingredients (1 serving)
- Pork loin — 70 g
- Shrimp — 4 pc
- Onion — 0.3 pc
- Asparagus — 2 pc
- Cabbage — 1 handful
- All-purpose flour — 3 Tbsp
- Egg — 0.5 pc
- Breadcrumbs — 0.5 cup
- Cooking oil — 2 Tbsp
- Tonkatsu sauce — 1.5 Tbsp
- Salt — 1 pinch
- Ground black pepper — 1 pinch