Cutlet (derived from

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''côtelette'', ''côte'', " rib") refers to: # a thin slice of meat from the leg or ribs of mutton,

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or chicken # a dish made of such slice, often breaded (also known in various languages as a '' cotoletta'', '' Kotelett'', ''kotlet'' or ''kotleta'') # a croquette or cutlet-shaped patty made of

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# a kind of fish cut where the fish is sliced perpendicular to the spine, rather than parallel (as with fillets); often synonymous with steak # a

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with its head and outer shell removed, leaving only the flesh and tail # a mash of vegetables (usually potatoes) fried with bread

History

Cutlet were a typical starter in

cuisine, as a variation of Croquettes with a shape of small rib (''côtelette'' in French). The bone was simulated by a piece of fried bread or pasta. The recipe became popular in all Europe due to the influence of French cuisine.

American and Canadian cuisines

From the late 1700s until about 1900, virtually all recipes for "cutlets" in English-language cookbooks referenced veal cutlets. Then pork cutlets began to appear. More recently, in American and Canadian cuisine, cutlets have also been made using chicken, although this was also imported from Europe. The cutlet is usually coated with flour, egg and bread crumbs, then fried in a pan with some oil.

Austrian cuisine

Australian cuisine

Australians eat lamb cutlets battered with egg yolk and breadcrumbs. Chicken cutlets are also very popular, but known as chicken schnitzel. Both lamb cutlets and chicken schnitzel are a staple of Australian children's cuisine. Amongst most Australians of Italian descent, the term schnitzel is replaced by the term cutlet. Cutlets amongst this population are usually veal or chicken.

British cuisine

In British cuisine a cutlet is usually unbreaded and can also be called a

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. If referring to beef, more than one piece together would be generally called a rib of beef or a rib joint, whilst lamb ribs are called a rack, or rack of lamb. Lamb racks can also be tied into a circular shape before cooking, with the ribs on the outside, giving a crown shape, leading to the name "crown of lamb".

French cuisine

In France, cutlets can be made with any of the Salpicons of poultry, game, fish and shellfish, mixed with the necessary amount of forcemeat in keeping with the main ingredient; the consistency should be adjusted with a little well-reduced sauce which should also be in keeping with the ingredients. These cutlets should be egg and crumbed and they should be shallow fried and coloured in clarified butter instead of being deep fried.

Hong Kong cuisine

In Hong Kong, the cutlet was introduced during the period of British colonial occupation along with other cooking influences. It is seen as "sai chaan" or Western cuisine. Veal, pork and chicken are battered and deep fried for lunch. Seafood such as shrimp or scallop that is battered or breaded and deep fried can also be known as 'cutlet' in Hong Kong. It is usually served alongside rice or spaghetti noodles.

Indian cuisine

In Indian cuisine, a cutlet specifically refers to mashed vegetables (potato, carrot, beans) or cooked meat (mutton, Chicken or fish) stuffing that is fried with a batter/covering. The meat itself is cooked with spices - onion, cardamom, cloves,

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coriander Coriander (;

(cilantro), green chillies, lemon and salt. This is then dipped in an egg mix or

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and then in

Bread crumbs Bread crumbs or breadcrumbs (regional variants including breading and crispies) consist of crumbled bread of various dryness, sometimes with seasonings added, used for breading or crumbing foods, topping casseroles, stuffing poultry, thicke ...

(also see breaded cutlet), and fried in

ghee Ghee is a type of clarified butter, originating from India. It is commonly used in India for cooking, as a traditional medicine, and for religious rituals. Description Ghee is typically prepared by simmering butter, which is churned fro ...

or vegetable oil. Mostly chicken and mutton cutlets are very popular snacks in the eastern part of India specially in

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. The vegetarian version has no meat in it, instead the filling is a combination of mashed potatoes, onion, green chillies, spices and salt, cooked for a bit together. This version is more popular with the vegetarian Indian population. This should not be confused with grilled patties such as Aloo Tikki. A cutlet is traditionally deep-fried.

Iranian cuisine

In Iran, cutlet ( Persian: کتلت) is a popular hamburger-like thin layered fried of mixture of ground beef Or pea flour, mashed or grated potatoes, eggs, onions, spices and bread crumbs.

Italian cuisine

The use of the cutlet ( cotoletta) is quite widespread in Italian cuisine in many different variations. The most famous variant is the Milanese cutlet (''cotoletta alla milanese''), a veal cutlet covered in bread crumbs and fried in butter. It should not be mistaken for the ''Wiener schnitzel'' (which should be referred as a ''scaloppina alla viennese'', or as ''fettina impanata'' in Italian), because it's a different cut of meat; the Milanese cutlet cut includes the bone, whereas the Wienerschnitzel doesn't. It is disputed whether the ''cotoletta alla milanese'' originated the Wienerschnitzel, or vice versa.

Japanese cuisine

The cutlet was introduced to Japan during the

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, in a Western cuisine restaurant in the fashionable

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district of

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. The Japanese pronunciation of cutlet is ''katsuretsu''. In

Japanese cuisine Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes. The traditional cuisine of Japan ( Japanese: ) is based on rice with miso soup and ot ...

, ''katsuretsu'' or shorter ''katsu'' is actually the name for a Japanese version of the Wiener schnitzel, a breaded cutlet. Dishes with ''katsu'' include tonkatsu and katsudon. Image:Katsukare-.jpg, '' Katsukarē'' (cutlet

curry A curry is a dish with a sauce seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine. In southern India, leaves from the curry tree may be included. There are many varieties of curry. The choice of spices for each dish in trad ...

rice) Image:Escalope2.jpg, ''Esukaroppu'' (" escalope") Image:Tonkatsu by luckypines.jpg, ''Ton-katsu'' (pork cutlet)

Polish cuisine

The Polish pork cutlet, kotlet schabowy, is a pork chop coated with breadcrumbs. Kotlet schabowy can be served with mashed potatoes, home fries,

fried mushrooms Fried mushrooms or battered mushrooms are a dish made by the frying or deep frying of edible mushrooms, sometimes after dipping them in batter. In the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, they are often served as an appetizer or sn ...

, cooked vegetables ( cabbage), with salads or with

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. ''Kotlet z kurczaka'' is a

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cutlet coated with breadcrumbs. ''Kotlet z indyka'' is a

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cutlet coated with breadcrumbs. File:Pierś z kurczaka panierowana.jpg, Polish ''Kotlet z kurczaka'' Breaded

cutlet with cabbage salad. File:Kotlet schabowy.jpg, One of typical ways of serving ''kotlet schabowy''

cutlet on a plate with home fries. File:Kotlet.jpg, ''Kotlet z indyka''

cutlet with spring onion

mash potato Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American and Canadian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt and pepper. It is generally served as a ...

cucumber Cucumber (''Cucumis sativus'') is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae family that bears usually cylindrical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.semi-processed ground meat cutlets were introduced in the USSR. Colloquially known as Mikoyan cutlets (named after Soviet politician Anastas Mikoyan, who served as a minister of food industry for a long time and was responsible for introducing a lot of industrial-made products into the Soviet food chain), these were cheap pork or beef cutlet-shaped patties which resembled American burgers. In Ukrainian cuisine, a variety called ''sichenyk'' ( uk, січеник) is made of minced meat or fish and vegetables and covered with bread crumbs. A particular form of the Russian ''kotleta'' known as Pozharsky cutlet is an elaborated version of minced poultry ''kotleta'' covered with breadcrumbs or small croutons. A distinct feature of this cutlet is that butter is added to minced meat, which results in an especially juicy and tender consistency. Another Russian version of a cutlet, called ''otbivnaya kotleta'' (), meaning "beaten cutlet", is a fried slice of meat, usually pork or beef, beaten flat with a tenderizing hammer or knife handle and covered with beaten eggs, dough or breadcrumbs. The recipe is similar to those of escalopes, schnitzel, Polish, or American cutlets. Today, this dish is simply called ''otbivnaya'', with the word ''kotleta'' reserved for minced meat patties. Chicken Kiev is called ''kotleta po-kievski'' () in Russian and similarly ''kotleta po-kyivski'' () in Ukrainian, which means "Kiev-style cutlet". File:Kotleta.JPG, Two minced pork and one chicken ''kotleta'' File:Pozharskaya_kotleta.jpg, ''Pozharskaya kotleta'' served with mashed potatoes and a mushroom sauce File:Kotleta 013.jpg, ''Otbivnaya kotleta'' File:Chicken Kiev - Ukrainian East Village restaurant.jpg, ''Kotleta po-kievski'' (chicken Kiev)

Sri Lankan cuisine

In Sri Lankan cuisine cutlets almost always refer to fish (usually

tuna A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae ( mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max le ...

mackerel Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment. ...

) and potato

croquettes A croquette is a deep-fried roll consisting of a thick binder combined with a filling, which is breaded and deep-fried; it is served as a side dish, a snack, or fast food worldwide. The binder is typically a thick béchamel or brown sauce, m ...

. Usually the fish and potatoes are mixed with spices, green chilies and onions and dipped in a batter made of flour and eggs before being crumbed and fried.

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