Baked Pork Fillet and Mashed Potatoes with Okonomi-Oyster Sauce (Butaniku no Jyagaimo Yaki)

This recipe is simple and easy to make many servings, so it's good for a party. "Butaniku" means pork in Japanese, and "jyagaimo" is potato. After cooking, the potatoes will be very tender so you can even eat them with the chopsticks

Yield: 8 servings
Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb pork fillet
  
• 2 small potatoes
• 1 tbsp panko (or bread crumbs)
  

Spices

• 1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
  
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 tbsp okonomiyaki sauce (ketchup/BBQ works too)
  
• 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  
• 1/2 tbsp butter
• dash salt and pepper
  

Preparation

1. Boil potatoes until they are soft inside (about 20 minutes) You can check a potato's softness by trying to push a chopstick through the middle. Then remove the skin and mash.
2. Mix potatoes with mayonnaise, add a dash of salt and pepper, and mix
3. Cut the pork into eight 1" pieces and dust with salt and pepper on both sides
4. Heat the oil in the frying pan, then brown the pork on both sides (so the pork is medium well)
5. Top the pork with mashed potatoes and breadcrumbs then bake for 8 minutes on 475 F.
6. While the pork and potatoes are cooking, mix okonomiyaki sauce, oyster sauce, & milk, and heat it in the frying pan
7. Add the sauce to the cooked pork and potatoes and serve!