Lunch · 45 min · hawaiian

Hawaiian Plate Lunch

This is the kind of Hawaiian lunch you’ll make on repeat — chicken katsu and white rice, 45 minutes, big payoff.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 1 lb Chicken katsu
• 4 cups White rice
• 3 cups Macaroni salad
• 1/4 cup Tonkatsu sauce
• 1/4 cup Pickled ginger

Steps

1. Fry the chicken katsu golden and crisp; rest 3 minutes so the crust sets before slicing.
2. Build the plate the local way: two scoops of rice, one big scoop of mac salad, katsu fanned alongside.
3. Drizzle with tonkatsu sauce and tuck pickled ginger at the edge for palate relief.
4. This is Hawaii's definitive lunch — hearty, unpretentious, and gone in minutes.
5. Eat it the local way: a little of everything in each bite — that is why it is all on one plate.

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