Japanese Curry Bread (Kare Pan) — Plus, How To Air Fry It!

Ingredients

• ½ cup lukewarm milk of choice
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp instant dry yeast or 1¼ tsp dry active yeast
• 1 ½ cups bread flour
• 2 tsp sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• Activated yeast mixture from above
• 2 tsp neutral oil or room temperature butter
• Neutral oil, for cooking
• ½ cup finely chopped onion (from ½ a small onion)
• ½ cup finely chopped carrots (from one small carrot)
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• ½ lb ground beef or other ground meat of choice
• 2 Tbsp curry powder
• ¼ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp soy sauce
• ½ cup beef or vegetable broth
• Cornstarch slurry (1 Tbsp cornstarch mixed with 2 Tbsp cold water)
• 1 egg, whisked
• 1 cup panko
• 3 cups high heat oil for deep-frying or spray oil for air frying