Perfectly Round Takoyaki With Crisp Outsides and Creamy Insides

Name: Perfectly Round Takoyaki With Crisp Outsides and Creamy Insides
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 tentacles Octopus (sashimi grade); 400 ml ▲ Cake flour; 2 tbsp ▲ Dashi soup stock (I recommend regular dashi stock or chicken soup stock. I use dashida.); 1200 ml ▲ Water; 2 ▲ Eggs; 200 ml Tempura batter crumbs; 1 Japanese leek

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Takoyaki are fun to make This griddle cost less than 20 dollars.

Be sure to heat the griddle first! After grilling one side, do not flip them over completely! Recipe by Sahosaho

Takoyaki are fun to make This griddle cost less than 20 dollars.

Be sure to heat the griddle first! After grilling one side, do not flip them over completely! Recipe by Sahosaho

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Takoyaki are fun to make This griddle cost less than 20 dollars.

Be sure to heat the griddle first! After grilling one side, do not flip them over completely! Recipe by Sahosaho

Takoyaki are fun to make This griddle cost less than 20 dollars.

Be sure to heat the griddle first! After grilling one side, do not flip them over completely! Recipe by Sahosaho

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Ingredients

3 servings

4tentacles Octopus (sashimi grade)
400 ml▲ Cake flour
2 tbsp▲ Dashi soup stock (I recommend regular dashi stock or chicken soup stock. I use dashida.)
1200 ml▲ Water
2▲ Eggs
200 mlTempura batter crumbs
1Japanese leek

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Steps

1

Combine the ▲ ingredients (until lumps are gone). Roughly chop the Japanese leek. Chop the octopus into 1-2 cm cubes.
2

Add the Japanese leek and tempura batter crumbs to the batter from Step 1.
3

Now, just grill.
4

How to grill takoyaki: Grease the griddle (soak a paper towel in vegetable oil and rub it into each depression ) Heat until the griddle starts to slightly smoke.
5

Pour in plenty of batter!
6

Add the pieces of octopus. If they are too large, the batter will spill out of the griddle.
7

Flip them over halfway and wait. Do not flip them over completely.
8

Once they are perfectly round, they're done.