Katsu Chicken Curry

OK one of my favourite dishes at Yo! Sushi is the Katsu Chicken, this can also be had as a curry—it’s basically the same chicken strips only as the name would suggest it comes as a curry, with rice. This is the dish I order first if I don’t want to go on a 10+ plate orgy of consumption when the belly is willing but the wallet is not. The rice and sauce make the dish filling curtailing any notion of building a tower out of my empties.

Now I thought this was something of a Yo! exclusive. How wrong I was, it’s a common dish. This means I can get a decent Katsu Curry from Tesco—other supermarkets are available—even though it’s not strictly the same product as the Sushi chains. It’s made by a company called ‘The City Kitchen’ you can make that out by the photo above if you squint a bit.

Coming in a plastic container much like a Chinese takeaway does nowadays, there is just enough food to make a meal of it without making a pig of yourself.

Inside that plastic is—and I quote—An authentic Katsu curry sauce with coconut cream & honey, garlic, ginger & red chilli. In accompaniment, fragrant sticky Jasmine rice, with red pepper, water chestnut & spring onion, finished with coriander.

The sauce is not too hot, just right for me. Not greasy either like some ready meals out there which separate and require a good mixing to blend the oil back in. Thickness is important and in this respect all the boxes were ticked, not pissy and not ‘one slice or two’ either. It clung on nicely to the vegetables and succulent chicken breast meat. The latter being white and juicy, the former crisp and fresh.

Then there is the shaped round of that sticky Jasmine rice. I favour the long grain basmati style and this grain fits that ideal perfectly. Easy to part and smother in curry, a loverly texture and flavour. Nicely garnished with Coriander.

So… the rice is soft, the veg crisp and the chicken succulent breast. All in all a great meal, quick and easy and all you need to do having devoured the tasty is wash up a spoon (yes I eat stuff like this with a spoon not a fork, it’s easier and you don’t waste the sauce. I even eat Shepherds Pie like this)

£3.50 well spent.

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