The Uglist lil' Chicken Katsu Sandos (Patreon)

They taste a lot better than they look

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts (about 1lb/500g)

• 1 box of panko crumbs

• 1 bag of milk bread, or if that's not available some a highly processed load of white bread works fine, just get the most square looking loaf you can

• cabbage

• 500ml/1 pink of buttermilk

• 1 bottle of Japanese Barbecue sauce

• kewpie mayonnaise

• about 2 cups of flour for dredge

• about a quarter cup of lawry's (I wasn't really measuring here. If you ever need to ask yourself if something needs more lawry's, the answer is yes)

• corn or vegetable oil for frying

Prep

• Butterfly or half your chicken breasts and them liberally salt them. let rest in the fridge for one hour

• dab off any excess moisture on chicken, cover with clip wrap, and then use a rolling pin or kitchen mallet to just WAIL ON THOSE SUCKERS!!! get them as flat as you can.

• Use a slice of your chosen bread as a guide to cut your flattened chicken into sando-sized cutlets and then set up a three-part breading station: one with the flour and lawry's for dredge, one with buttermilk and about a handful of the dredge mixed in, and one that's just panko crumbs. Dredge the chicken in flour, coat in buttermilk, bread in the panko crumbs. Put the breaded cutlets onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and let rest in the fridge for half and hour

• Finely chop your cabbage and then rinse it under the sink. Place it i a large bowl with drinking water for half and hour to ensure cabbage is crispy.

• After cutlets have rested, heat oil in a large walled saucepan at medium high and begin cooking your cutlets one at a time. This took 90 seconds on each side for me but cooking times can vary. use your smallest scraps first to gauge cook time before starting you big ones.

• When both sides of cutlets are golden brown, remove to a paper towel lined wire rack to drain and then assemble sandwiches: Liberally cover both slices of bread with kewpie mayo, add about half a handful of cabbage, drizzle barbecue sauce over the cabbage, and finally add the chicken cutlet and half the sandwich

• repeat until you're out of chicken cutlets. Wrap up the extras and they work great as a daytime snack.