Takoyaki using plain flour / octopus balls 🐙

Name: Takoyaki using plain flour / octopus balls 🐙
Yield: 40 balls
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 g Boiled octopus tentacles; 1 egg; 200 g plain flour; 20 g cornstarch; 1 pack spring onions; 700 ml water; 1 sachet dashi powder; 2 tbs mirin; 2 tbs soy sauce; Okonomiyaki sauce; Mayonnaise (optional); Aonori (dried fine seaweed, optional); Katsuo bushi (dried bonito flakes)

Takoyakinori @search

Bristol

I have made thousands of takoyakis after living in the U.K. I got this simple recipe after several failures.

Takoyakinori @search

Bristol

I have made thousands of takoyakis after living in the U.K. I got this simple recipe after several failures.

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Ingredients

40 balls

500 gBoiled octopus tentacles
1egg
200 gplain flour
20 gcornstarch
1 packspring onions
700 mlwater
1 sachetdashi powder
2 tbsmirin
2 tbssoy sauce
Sauce & toppings
Okonomiyaki sauce
Mayonnaise (optional)
Aonori (dried fine seaweed, optional)
Katsuo bushi (dried bonito flakes)

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Steps

1

Make 700 ml of dashi broth. I just add a sachet of dashi powder into the water.
2

Mix dashi broth, plain flour, mirin and soy sauce
and egg till you find no flour powder.
3

Fine cut spring onions
4

Cut octopus tentacles into small pieces.
5

Pour the batter, don’t fill up yet. Put octopus and spring onions. Make sure all the halls have a piece of octopus. Then cover up with the batter.
6

Keep rolling!
7

Put the balls on a plate. Add mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce, then sprinkle bonito flakes and aonori.