Chicken katsu (chicken cutlet (Japanese: チキンカツ, Hepburn: chikinkatsu)), also known as panko chicken or tori katsu (torikatsu (鶏カツ)) is a Japanese dish of fried chicken made with panko bread crumbs. It is related to tonkatsu, fried pork cutlets. The dish has spread internationally and has become a common dish served at Japanese and East Asian restaurants worldwide.[1][2]
Like tonkatsu, chicken katsu is generally served with tonkatsu sauce (とんかつソース), a thick Japanese vegetarian pureed fruit-based brown sauce with rice or miso soup as part of a two- or three-item set meal, or as dinner with rice and vegetables.
In Hawaii, chicken katsu is more popular than tonkatsu and substitutes for it in dishes such as katsukarē and katsudon.[3] In a plate lunch, chicken katsu is generally served on a bed of shredded cabbage,[4] with a well-seasoned ketchup similar to cocktail sauce.[5][6]
In the United Kingdom, the word "katsu" has become synonymous with Japanese curries as a whole, owing to the rapid rise in popularity of chicken katsu curry.[7]