Japanese Pancake Okonomiyaki

⏳ Time

40 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Okonomiyaki are large cabbage pancakes that Japanese people often make at home. This dish is sometimes called Japanese pizza due to its simplicity of preparation and the variety of possible fillings. The base is made from egg batter and cabbage, and then you can add just about anything: ham, seafood, or vegetables. This is reflected in the name of the dish, which consists of two parts: 'okonomi' — 'what you love' or 'what you want', and 'yaki' — which denotes fried dishes in Japanese. Traditionally, okonomiyaki is topped with mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce and sprinkled with bonito flakes: the streams of hot air coming from the okonomiyaki cause them to move as if they were alive.

Ingredients

Tempura Flour - 1.1 oz
Dashi powder - 1 tablespoon
Wheat Flour - 5.6 oz
Salt - ¼ spoons
Sugar - ¼ spoons
White Cabbage - 16.9 oz
Scallions - 1.4 oz
Salted pork belly - 5.6 oz
Pickled garlic - 0.4 oz
Yakiniku sauce - to taste
Kewpie Japanese Mayonnaise - to taste
Tuna - to taste
Chicken Egg - 4 pieces
Water - 8 fl oz
Vegetable Oil - 17 fl oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Gather the necessary ingredients.

Step 2

To prepare tenkasu, mix tempura flour with 40 milliliters of cold water until smooth.

Step 3

In a small saucepan, heat vegetable oil and pour in the tempura batter in small droplets. Fry for one to two minutes, then remove the fried batter droplets.

Step 4

Transfer them to paper towels to remove excess fat.

Step 5

Dissolve the dashi powder in 200 milliliters of water. In a large bowl, mix the flour, salt, and sugar, then pour in the dashi broth, add the eggs, and knead the dough.