Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is another Japanese street food, like Yakisoba (Japanese Stir Fried Noodles) which I posted few weeks ago. The batter with loads of shredded cabbage is pan fried with egg, sliced meat, bonito flakes on top. Drizzle sweet Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise and sprinkle aonori (青のり, green seaweed flakes), benishoga (紅しょが, red pickled ginger) and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes) over it to make it a complete okonomiyaki. The recipe is to make one pancake at a time but you can make two at once if you have extra fry pan or large iron plate to cook on. Please note that cooking time is the time to cook one okonomiyaki or to cook two okonomiyaki at once.
Kewpie Japanese mayonnaise ((optional, Note 3))optional
Aonori ((dried seaweed flakes))
Benishoga ((red pickled ginger))
Katsuobushi ((dried bonito flakes))
14 Ingredients
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Instructions
1
Place flour and dashi in a bowl. Mix well until the batter becomes smooth and lump free. I use a whisk.
2
Add cabbage, an egg and mix well.
3
Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large fry pan or an iron plate over medium heat.
4
Using a ladle, pour little bit less than half of the batter (Note 5) onto the fry pan/iron plate and spread the batter to make a round pancake (diameter is about 18cm/7”).
5
Place half of the Topping cabbage on the pancake. Make a well in the middle of the cabbage. Crack an egg in the well.
6
Spread half the pork over the pancake covering the entire surface. Then sprinkle half the katsuobushi over it.
7
Fill a bit of batter in a ladle and drizzle it back and forth in across the surface (Note 5). Do not cover the entire surface. All you need is to drop some batter across the meat pieces so that they don’t get separated when cooked.
8
Cook for about 10 minutes until the bottom of the pancake is light golden brown and when you lift the pancake with a spatula, the pancake does not bend much.
9
Turn it over with a spatula and cook for another 10 minutes or until the bottom of the pancake is light golden brown.
10
Turn it over again so that the topping side is facing up. Stick a chopstick in the centre of the pancake and remove it to see if the middle of the pancake is cooked through. If the chopstick is clean and dry, then it is ready to eat.
11
Transfer the pancake to a plate.
12
Repeat for the second pancake.
13
Drizzle sauce over the surface of the pancake, then Kewpie mayonnaise in the same way if using. Sprinkle aonori, benishoga and katsuobushi if using.
14
Cut the pancake into quarters and serve immediately.
