Tonkatsu Bun

pork / apple / ranch

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Serves 2

Hey!

This beaut is one of our most popular sandwiches - can you see why? It’s oozing sexiness! Really tasty melt in the mouth crispy fried pork served with our Tonkatsu Sauce and Dirty (we mean really dirty) Ranch dressing. Get it made! What are you waiting for??

Equipment…

>Blender
>Deep-Fat Fryer

The Recipe

Stage #1
>the PREP

Crusty Rolls

 
 

Tonkatsu Sauce 

6 Tbsps Ketchup
2 Tbsps Worchester Sauce
1 1/2 Tsp Oyster Sauce
1 1/2 Tsp Caster Sugar
2 Tbsps Double Deluxe Soy Sauce
1 Tbsps Mirin
3 Tsp Cider Vinegar
1/2 Onion
2 Cloves Garlic
10g Ginger
1 Tsp Mustard Powder
Pinch of All Spice 

Vegetable Oil

  • Finely dice the Ginger, Onion & Garlic and sweat down in some of the Vegetable Oil.

  • Add in the rest of the ingredients and bring up to the boil - Take off the heat and leave to cool.

 
 

The Pepper

 3 x Romano Pepper

Table Salt
Vegetable Oil

  • Top, tail and half the Peppers and scrape away the seeds.

  • Oil and Salt the Peppers and get a pan on a high heat. Give the Peppers a nice char on each side.

  • Leave to one side until you’re ready to assemble.

 
 

The Pork

2 x Pork Fillets 
150g Flour
100g Panko Breadcrumbs
2 Eggs

  • Start by trimming off all the sinew from the pork fillets

  • Butterfly the pork fillet by cutting right down the centre of the fillet to open it up.

  • Very lightly batter out the pork fillet and cut in to smaller pieces

  • Mix the panko and flour together and set aside.

  • Whisk up the eggs and set aside for the Pane

  • Place the pork into the flour, then the eggs and flour again

  • Keep refrigerated till ready to cook

 
 

Dirty Ranch

2 Green Chillis
2 Garlic Cloves 
20g White Wine Vinegar
1 Small Pork Pie
50g Chicken Stock
200g Mayonnaise
100g Buttermilk
100g Creme Fraich
2 Tsp Dill
1 Tsp Flat Leaf Parsley

Salt 
Lemon Juice

  • Place the Chillis, Pork Pie, Garlic & Chicken Stock into a Blender and blitz to a paste.

  • Add the remaining ingredients and emulsify together.

  • Check the seasoning and adjust accordingly.

Garnish

1 x Granny Smith Apple
1 x Red Onion
1/2 Iceberg Lettuce

  • Slice the Apple (keep the skin on unless your one of the weirdos who get freaked out about the skin of apple). Your call! Slice the apple into thin battons.

  • Peel and half the Onion and very thinly slice.

  • Wash the Iceberg and rip it into whatever sizes you’d prefer.

 

Stage #2
>Cook it baby!

 

  • Right, all we’ve got to do here is cook this piece of Pork! Now there is a couple of ways you can do this but let go with the one and thats both easy and quick but also super tasty!

  • Set up your fryer to 190ºc.

  • While this is heating up, toast off the Buns.

  • Lower your Pork into the fryer 3/4 pieces at a time - don’t overcrowd.

  • Cook for 4 minutes until golden and crispy.

Stage #3
>Assemble