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tonkatsu sauce

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[tahng-kaht-soo saws] / tɑŋˈkɑt su ˈsɔs /

noun

  1. Japanese Cooking. a sweet and tangy sauce served with tonkatsu.


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One is chef Tandavanitj’s housemade tonkatsu sauce, for dipping your pork cutlet slices/your life into.

From Seattle Times

That “Paju Crispy Pancake” is a Korean/Japanese mashup, laden with bouncy calamari, as one hopes with pajeon, but unexpectedly topped with an okonomiyaki treatment of ribbons of Kewpie mayo and tonkatsu sauce, crowned with bonito flakes waving in celebration.

From Seattle Times

The intriguing “plum sesame salt” on the edamame, meanwhile, was overshadowed by how overcooked the pods were, and the furikake fries, coin-shaped and crimped, were surprisingly limp, though I liked the ketchup, doctored with tonkatsu sauce and Tabasco.

From The New Yorker

He goes on to describe the $15 Katana Kitten mortadella katsu sando, which “features a perfect thick square of the sausage covered with panko and deep fried” served on crustless white bread with tonkatsu sauce and mustard.

From Salon

His katsu sando at Adana also gets special tonkatsu sauce, made in-house — and yes, that sweetish, familiar flavor is ketchup in the mix, along with sesame, too.

From Seattle Times