How to Make Speedy Okonomiyaki
Hello everybody, it's Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Okonomiyaki. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Many things affect the quality of taste from Okonomiyaki, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Okonomiyaki delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.
As for the number of servings that can be served to make Okonomiyaki is 2 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have Okonomiyaki using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Okonomiyaki (‘grilled as you like it’) is a Japanese shredded cabbage-based pancake. From its name suggests, okonomiyaki is a flexible dish that made with flour, shredded cabbage, egg, meat/ seafood and topped with variety of condiments like okonomiyaki sauce, Japanese mayonnaise, dried seaweed, and dried bonito flakes. You can add any ingredients come down to what's at hand. Thin strips of pork belly slices is a common choice. Shrimp and octopus are also popular fillings. For myself, adding green onions and pickled red gingers is a must. Some people even adding cheese and rice cakes to boosts the flavour (I never tried it but sounds yumyum). There are two styles to cook okonomiyaki - "Hiroshima style", where the plain batter pancake is grilled, then topped with the chosen cooked ingredients such as bean sprouts and Yakisoba noodles (egg noodles), or "Osaka style", where all the ingredients are mixed into the batter, then cooked like a frittata. The recipe I am going to introduce is Osaka style, which is the most common in Japan's okonomiyaki bars.
To create this delicious okonomayaki, there are some key ingredients that are necessary to boots the flavour compared to the ones do not include them.
-Okonomiyaki Sauce
-Japanese mayonnaise (slightly different to the Western style mayonnaise)
-Katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes)
-Aonori (dried green seaweed)
*All the ingredients are easy to buy from either Amazon or Japanese/ Asian grocery stores.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Okonomiyaki:
- 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp Kosher salt
- 1/8 tsp Granulated sugar
- 1/8 tsp Baking powder
- 1 inch Nagaimo
- 90 ml Dashi
- 400 g/ half Large cabbage head
- 4 Sliced pork belly (other ingredients such as shrimps and squids can be used as well)
- 2 Eggs
- 3 tbsp Tempura scraps
- 4 tbsp Pickled red ginger
- 4 tbsp Green onion/ scallions
- Oil
Instructions to make Okonomiyaki
- Okonomiyaki batter:
Combine the all-purpose flour, salt, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl and mix all together.
- Peel and grate nagaimo in a small bowl. Add the grated nagaimo and dashi in the bowl.
- Mix all together till combined.
- To cook:
Remove the core of the cabbage and mince it. Set aside to let the moisture evaporate to avoid dilute the batter.
- Halve the pork belly slices and set aside.
- Add the eggs, tempura scraps, green onions and pickled red ginger in the batter. Mix well until well-combined.
- Add the minced cabbage into the batter.
- Heat oil in a large pan on medium heat. Spread half of the batter in a circle on the pan. The optimum thickness of the okonomiyaki is 2 cm. Thicker okonomiyaki tastes better.
- Place 3-4 sliced pork belly on top of Okonomiyaki and cook covered for 5 minutes.
- When the bottom is set and browned, flip over.
Gently press the okonomiyaki to re-shape and keep it together. Cover and cook for another 5 minutes. - Flip over one last time and cook uncovered for 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate and apply the toppings.
- Apply okonomiyaki sauce with brush, then add Japanese mayonnaise. At last, prinkle dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi) and dried green seaweed (aonori). Enjoy.
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