Okonomiyaki

Name: Okonomiyaki
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: About 2/3 cup (100g) of flour; 1 (8 g) packet of Hondashi; 1 medium or large egg; 120 ml luke warm water; 1/4 head (200 g) cabbage; 100 g pork (or other desired ingredients); 2 Tbsp Tenkasu tempura (optional); to taste Okonomiyaki sauce; to taste Mayonnaise; to taste Katsuoboshi (thin dried flakes of tuna); Cooking oil for frying; to taste Aonori (seaweed flakes)

Hailey Perlitz-Young @cook_3979083

Kyoto, Japan / Edmonton, Canada

I lived in Japan for a year and a half and often went out to restaurants to eat okonomiyaki (often called Japanese pizza or Japanese cabbage pancake). I'm back in Canada and my grandma has been asking me to make this for her, so I found this recipe. It makes 1 large or 2 medium sized patties. Pictured above is a medium sized one, about 2-3 cm thick.

Hailey Perlitz-Young @cook_3979083

Kyoto, Japan / Edmonton, Canada

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Ingredients

2 servings

About 2/3 cup (100g) of flour
1 (8 g)packet of Hondashi
1medium or large egg
120 mlluke warm water
1/4 head (200 g)cabbage
100 gpork (or other desired ingredients)
2 TbspTenkasu tempura (optional)
to tasteOkonomiyaki sauce
to tasteMayonnaise
to tasteKatsuoboshi (thin dried flakes of tuna)
Cooking oil for frying
to tasteAonori (seaweed flakes)

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Steps

1

Mix hondashi into water, then combine with flour and egg in a bowl. Mix until smooth.
2

Cut cabbage into thin bite sized pieces. Cut pork into easy to eat pieces.* Add the cabbage, pork*, and tempura balls into the mixture from step one and mix so everything is coated in batter.
3

Add oil to fry pan and pour the mixture in, making a circular shaped patty. Cook on low to medium heat until the bottom is well cooked (dark brown but not burnt), then flip it carefully and continue cooking, reducing the heat.
4

Cook until cooked through (use a toothpick to test that the batter in the centre is cooked)
5

Serve on a plate and top with okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise, katsuoboshi, and aonori to taste.
6

Other common fillings are octopus, shrimp, potato + cheese + mochi, or plain. Also commonly added is pickled ginger.