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| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- ½ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon sherry
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, sliced in half horizontally
- 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 ½ cups panko bread crumbs
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Prepare sauce: Whisk ketchup, soy sauce, brown sugar, sherry, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic together in a bowl until sugar has dissolved. Set katsu sauce aside.
- Preheat an air fryer to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Meanwhile, lay chicken pieces on a clean work surface. Season with salt and pepper.
- Place beaten eggs in a flat dish or shallow bowl. Pour bread crumbs into a second flat dish. Dredge chicken pieces in egg and then in bread crumbs. Repeat by dredging chicken in egg and then bread crumbs again, pressing down so the bread crumbs stick to the chicken.
- Place chicken pieces in the basket of the preheated air fryer. Spray the tops with nonstick cooking spray.
- Air fry for 10 minutes. Flip chicken pieces over using a spatula and spray the tops with nonstick cooking spray. Cook for 8 minutes more. Transfer chicken to a cutting board and slice. Serve with katsu sauce.
- Nutrition data for this recipe includes the full amount of breading ingredients. The actual amount of breading consumed will vary.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 318 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 41 g |
| Cholesterol | 158 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 32 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 1164 mg |
| Sugars | 11 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is an easy dinner and also in the comfort food category in my opinion. Made some Vermont curry, jasmine rice, and a Japanese cabbage salad to go along with it.
I really liked the recipe as a base. The preparation and cooking of the chicken was great. I tried both the single and the double dip into the egg and breadcrumbs, but I did oven cook the chicken as well as air fry, just to make sure it was cooked. For the sauce I added curry powder for more of a curry flavour.
I changed the Katsu sauce to one I prefer that I found here in AllRecipes.
Admittedly not the same as the local Hawaiian places but still pretty tasty. The breading didn’t stay on as well as I would’ve liked in the first bastch. Probably my fault. I liked the sauce better than the typical teriyaki sauce it’s served with
Loved it. I would use less ketchup next time, the ketchup flavor was a little overpowering. I’ll find some way to have the tomato bit with the ketchup flavor. My air fryer seems to be different from others, that is to be expected, so I adjust the temp up, and time down a bit. Next time I’ll up the temp past 375 (which I used this time), and time down a bit more than the 8 min. per side. We love the crunch, and if I’d gone with the suggested, 350 and 10min, it would have had a LOT of crunch, not bad, but way over cooked and dry. We both used some sriracha sauce at the table, as we like a bit of spice. I would incorporate that into the recipe next time for us. All in all, an excellent Katsu recipe though. We will be having this again and again! Sorry the meal didn’t survive long enough for a picture, but it looked like that other pictures!
Love this recipe- definitely serve it over or with rice.
We had heard our friends rave about air fryers and when a toaster oven style air fryer came on sale we decided to get it. We saw this recipe and were skeptical about the ratings – how could it be so good? – but we decided to give it a try. Well, the recipe delivered in spades. The crust was super crunchy, and the chicken was really moist. We prefer the dark meat (and will try boneless thighs next time) but THIS is how to do chicken breast and not end up with it being dry and tasteless. The sauce was spot on – a little sweet, a little tangy – and ridiculously easy to make from ingredients we always have around. His Majesty used the left over sauce when he made pizza the next day. Different, but good. We served this with Japanese Sticky rice and Japanese curry vegetable medley. Fast and easy enough to make on a weeknight – good enough to serve company. We’ll definitely be putting this into the rotation. WINNER of a recipe.
The breading of my chicken was still a bit undercooked after the cooking time so I tried 4 mins at 400F. Easy to make for my 1st time with an airfryer. I would try it again. Next time, go light on the egg and panko mix, just do once not twice. Chicken was bit dry but still good.
The katsu was cooked perfectly. Honestly, the tonkotsu sauce wasn’t great, but it was only just tart.
This was delicious! Super easy and fast, and my husband loved it. Recommend!
Chicken was crunchy, but breading was thick and it was all pretty blah. Sauce was meh. Won’t be making again.
It was so easy to make and so delicious, I was going to take a photo to post but just couldn’t stop eating it. Better than shop bought! Recommend this recipe, I will be making this again very soon.
I really liked it, I think ill back off the ketsup next time and I added a sprinkle of Cheyenne pepper to give it a little kick.
Loved this recipe! Will definitely make this again!
This was delicious. My first time cooking with the air fryer. The sauce definitely makes the recipe. I made 3x the sauce and we used it for other dishes.
Super easy and tastes great!
I liked this! A great sauce to go on top. I don’t have an air fryer so I fried it in a skillet and I think it worked just fine. I bought the chicken thinly sliced horizontally already which was nice to start with. I didn’t submerge in oil so thinly sliced was important so it didn’t burn too much.
Yes I made it and it was delish , I did use a sweet and sour sauce instead of making the sauce listed on this recipe, I also added a few red pepper flakes to the flour mixture before coating the chicken ….
The chicken turned out lovely. Juicy inside, crisp outside. The Tonkatsu sauce however suffered a bit of failure on my part, I think. My Worcestershire was at the bottom of the bottle so it may have been on the strong side. I ended up with it overpowering the sauce. Once I added it on top of the chicken, though, it was pretty good. Next time I will start with a teaspoon, taste, and add more if necessary. Still, the dish is making in on my ‘make again’ list.
This is such a amazing recipe I doubled the recipe did half in the air fryer& half in grapeseed oil on the stove. They both turned out amazing I couldn’t even tell the difference between the two neither could my party. I made this two weeks ago I’m making it again, I have the whole neighborhood raving about my chicken katsu
This one’s a winner! Super easy and quick. Will definitely be making this again. Made sure the chicken is no more that a quarter inch thin.