Breaded cutlet
![Breaded cutlet dishes are popular around the world. Katsu is the Japanese name for breaded cutlet and tonkatsu refers to pork cutlet.](/Images/godic/202502/01/Tonkatsu_by_ayustety_in_Tokyo0156.jpg")
![Cotoletta alla milanese](/Images/godic/202502/01/Milanesa0156.jpg")
![Wiener schnitzel](/Images/godic/202502/01/Wiener_Schnitzel!0156.jpg")
![Tonkatsu served with shredded cabbage, boiled rice and miso soup in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan](/Images/godic/202502/01/Tonkatsu_set_by_zezebono_in_Sapporo,_Hokkaido0156.jpg")
Breaded cutlet is a dish made from coating a cutlet of meat with breading or batter and deep frying it. Breaded cutlet is known as schnitzel in Germany, Austria and Israel, cotoletta or scaloppine in Italy, filete empanado in Spain, milanesa in Latin America, katsu in Japan and Korea, and kotlet schabowy in Poland.