February 6, 2012

PAN...what? I mean KO

Panko.  Most of us know that Panko is a Japanese bread crumb especially since it is now on every real
and not so real reality type of cooking show. I just wanted to add my two sense in there by saying that
the meaning of panko comes from the Japanese word pan meaning bread and ko meaning crumb.

The most common type of bread crumbs come from old bread being pulverized
in a food processor or blender.  Panko is sort of the same thing except the fact that they are
not pulverized as much and they are always made from bread without the crust which allows the
food being used with panko to be crispier especially because the individual bread crumbs are
larger than regular bread crumbs.