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Hyogo Prefecture

Katsumeshi

Katsumeshi
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Main lore areas

Kakogawa City and surrounding areas

Main ingredients used

Beef, cabbage, rice

History/origin/related events

Katsu-meshi" is a Western-style dish consisting of a flat beef cutlet on top of rice served on a Western-style plate, topped with demi-glace sauce and served with boiled cabbage on the side.
It is a local dish of Kakogawa. It was first invented at a diner in town shortly after the war, when beef cutlets were still a rarity, as a Western-style dish that could be easily eaten with chopsticks without a knife and fork. Later, other diners began to offer katsumeshi with a sweet and spicy sauce and other innovations, and the dish spread throughout Kakogawa City.
Today, new types of katsumeshi are being introduced, such as using pork, chicken, and shrimp cutlets as well as beef, and offering sauces other than demi-glace sauce. At stores in and around Kakogawa City, one can enjoy a variety of variations, different from store to store.

Opportunities and times of eating habits

As a normal meal, it can be prepared and eaten at home regardless of the season.

How to eat

The rice served on a Western-style plate should be thin, and the beef cutlet on top of it should be tapped flat and deep-fried to look tasty. In addition to beef cutlets, tonkatsu and chicken cutlets are sometimes served on top.

Efforts for Preservation and Succession

There are more than 100 restaurants serving katsumeshi in and around Kakogawa City (as of 2021), and it also appears on school lunch and cafeteria menus. In addition, since special sauce is available at supermarkets, katsumeshi can be easily prepared at home. The Kakogawa Tourism Association, in cooperation with the University of Hyogo, is also using characters selected from the public to promote katsumeshi.

RECIPE

Ingredients (For 5 persons)

  • Rice 300g (2 cups)
  • Water 450cc (2 1/4 cups)
  • Beef (sliced) 400g (2 cups)
  • Ingredients for batter] Flour 30g (3 tbsp)
  • Ingredients for batter] potato starch 15g (1 1/2 tbsp)
  • Ingredients for batter] Vinegar 7～8cc (1/2 tbsp)
  • Ingredients for batter] Water 30cc
  • salt A pinch
  • pepper A pinch
  • bread crumbs some bread crumbs
  • oil for frying a little oil to taste
  • Cabbage 250g
  • hot water 400cc (2 cups)
  • Curry powder 2g (1 tsp)
  • salt a pinch
  • consomme 1 piece
  • hot water 600cc (3 cups)
  • Butter 25 g
  • flour 25 g (3 tbsp)
  • Ketchup 70g (4 1/2 tbsp)
  • Worcestershire sauce 45cc (3 tbsp)
  • Grated onion 50g (4-5 tbsp)
  • japanese mustard 3-5 g (1/2-1 tsp)

How to cook

  • 1. Wash rice and cook normally in a rice cooker.

  • 2. Cut cabbage into 2 cm squares and boil in boiling water with curry powder and salt. Drain in a colander and leave to cool.

  • 3. Dissolve 1 consommé in 3 cups of hot water to make soup.

  • 4. Melt butter in a frying pan, add flour and fry over low heat until golden brown.

  • 5. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the bottom of the pan to cool slightly before adding the soup from step 3 and spreading it out a little at a time.

  • 6. Put 5 on the heat, add ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and grated onion, and cook down, stirring constantly. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

  • 7. Spread one piece of beef on top of the other to form a cutlet.

  • 8. Combine [batter ingredients] and dissolve in water (like tempura batter).

  • 9. Season the beef with salt and pepper, and coat with breadcrumbs after the batter in step 8.

  • 10. Deep fry the cutlets in oil at 170-180℃.

  • 11. Place rice on a plate, top with cutlet cutlets cut into pieces, cabbage, sauce, and garnish with mustard.

Recipe Arrangements

provider : Hyogo Home Cooking Research Group (Kaiko Katayose, Kaoru Sakamoto, Harumi Sakuta, Noriko Tanaka, Shinobu Tominaga, Kozue Nakatani, Tomoko Hara, Sachiko Honda)

* Recipes vary depending on the region and home.

* This recipe video has been partially arranged to make it easier to cook at home.