{"id":29866,"title":"Homemade Tonkatsu Sauce","modified":"2025-02-12T11:16:50+01:00","plain":"The delicious recipe for Tonkatsu sauce, also called bulldog sauce\n\n\n\nYou'll surely agree: once you've tasted Tonkatsu sauce, you can't live without it. Sweet, salty, and slightly spicy all at once, it's to be consumed without moderation.  \n\n\n\nWith just four ingredients, you can already do great things to enhance dishes like Korokke, Katsudon, or of course, Tonkatsu. You and your dishes deserve the best, don't they?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is Tonkatsu Sauce? \n\n\n\nWhen we talk about Tonkatsu pork, we automatically think of the sauce that makes it so delicious. It's a bit of a tandem, an inseparable duo in Japanese cuisine.  \n\n\n\nTonkatsu sauce is the sweetest and creamiest thing for a dish like this. Katsu Sando and Katsudon are also good options to explore.  \n\n\n\nIt's also called bulldog sauce. Apparently, it has nothing to do with the dog but rather with the name of the brand and manufacturer of this famous Tonkatsu sauce. I don't need to tell you that it's very popular in Asia, and you quickly understand why. It's also similar to okonomiyaki sauce, which is sometimes called bulldog sauce as well, and to yakisoba sauce.   \n\n\n\nThe recipe for their Tonkatsu sauce is very rich and consists of a long list of ingredients, including tomato sauce, apple and plum puree, carrot concentrate, lemon juice, vinegar, sugar, and many other little things that create this unique sweet, slightly tangy taste and thick texture that perfectly coats fried foods like chicken katsu.\n\n\n\nThe Delicious Tori Katsu\n\n\n\nWhile it \u201c's convenient to\u201d have a ready-made sauce, with ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, and oyster sauce - all things you can find in your cupboards - you have everything you need to make a Tonkatsu sauce that comes quite close in taste to the original! \n\n\n\nMain Ingredients of Tonkatsu Sauce\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKetchup: in the recipe for the so-called bulldog sauce, tomato sauce is used. In this recipe, ketchup will take on this role by providing that tomato taste but especially sweet, slightly sugary and tangy flavor in addition to the relatively thick consistency of the mixture.  \n\n\n\nWorcestershire sauce: sweet and sour, to stay in line with the basic idea of Tonkatsu sauce. It's this ingredient, however, that will give that little spicy touch. It actually makes quite an impact among the other ingredients which are rather mild.   \n\n\n\nOyster sauce: no, it doesn't bring an iodized taste, even if we might think so. It simply reinforces the salt content that's missing in Tonkatsu sauce and balances the flavors.  \n\n\n\nPowdered Dashi: for this recipe, this ingredient is optional but not uninteresting. Some people sometimes replace it with chicken broth. In my opinion, this option is not as rich as Dashi, which brings real complexity, depth, and intensity to the dish with its umami flavors.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\tHomemade Tonkatsu Sauce\n\t\t\n\t\tThe delicious recipe for Tonkatsu sauce, also called bulldog sauce\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t60 ml ketchup2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce1 tablespoon of oyster sauce1 tablespoon of sugar0.5 teaspoon of powdered dashi (optional)\t\n\t\n\t\tMix everything in a bowl until the sugar and dashi dissolve\t\n\t\n\t\tKeeps for 1 week in the fridge\n\t\n\t\n\t\tSauceJapaneseSauce huitre","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}