Monday Dinner: Fried pork with eggs (Katsudon)

Caution! Dangerously delicious...

Fried pork with eggs - Katsudon (for 2-3 people):
Pork loin (7.5 oz)
Eggs (3)
Flour (as needed)
Panko bread crumbs (as needed) - They are not ground as finely as regular bread crumbs
Salt
Pepper
Onion (1/2 medium)
Vegetable oil (as needed)
Dashi no moto (1/2 tsp)
Water (1-1/2 cup)
Soy sauce (1-1/2 Tbsp)
Mirin (1 Tbsp)
Sugar (1/2 Tbsp)

1. Slice the onion roughly. Add all the ingredients from dashi no moto to sugar in a pan and put it on medium high heat. Once it boils, put the sliced onion in. Turn the heat down to medium. Cook until onion slices are cooked.
2. Cut pork loin into 1/2 inch thick pieces. Use the meat tenderizer and pound the meat little bit so all the pieces are about the same thickness. Salt and pepper both sides well.
3. Heat oil in a pot or wok. Make sure you have enough to cover the pork pieces completely (they don't all have to go in at the same time).
4. Form an assembly line of flour, an egg (beaten) mixed with 1 Tbsp of water, and panko bread crumbs. Put a pork piece into flour and coat it with flour. Pat it to get rid of excess flour and put it into the egg mixture, coating it with the egg mixture. Put it on a bed of bread crumbs then cover it with more bread crumbs. Press lightly to put as much bread crumbs on the meat as you can. Set aside. Do the same for all the pieces.
5. Put a wooden chop stick into the oil. If little bubbles shoot out from the tip of the chop stick, the oil is hot enough.
6. Put pork pieces into the oil and fry until they're gold brown. Cut into 1/2 thick slices.
7. Reheat the onion mixture in the pan. Once it boils, put all the pork cutlets in.
8. Beat two eggs and put them in the pan. Put a lid on and cook on medium heat until eggs are cooked.
9. Serve over rice.

The pictures are kind of deceiving because I actually made more fried pork. So just the fried pork is like for 4 people. But I cooked only enough pork pieces with eggs for 2-3 people.

If you're not a big egg fan, you can just have the fried pork with tonkatsu sauce, which is like this Japanese sauce for fried pork. It's kind of like thick Worcestershire sauce. Fried pork is typically served with really thinly sliced cabbage in Japan. It's good. I like it cooked with eggs too though. I highly recommend it.

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