Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, okonomiyaki (japanese pizza / japanese savory pancake)【recipe video】. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】 is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】 is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook okonomiyaki (japanese pizza / japanese savory pancake)【recipe video】 using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】:
- Make ready 250 g (8.8 oz) thin sliced pork belly
- Take 400 g (14 oz) cabbage, about 1/2 heads
- Get 6 stalks scallion
- Prepare 40 g (1.4 oz) red pickled ginger
- Get 10 leaves perilla leaf
- Get 4 eggs
- Take oil for frying
- Prepare Okonomi-yaki batter
- Make ready 200 ml (6.8 fl oz) boiled water
- Get 2 tsp Japanese soup stock (dashi), granule type
- Prepare 200 g (7 oz, 1.6 cups) cake flour
- Make ready 1.5 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 2 tsp dried bonito powder (optional)
- Get 150 g (5.3 oz) Japanese yam
- Make ready Topping (adjust to suit your taste)
- Prepare okonomiyaki sauce (savory pancake sauce, It's kind of similar to barbecue sauce.)
- Prepare mayonnaise
- Take dried green nori flakes
- Take dried bonito flakes
- Get 1cup=235cc(USA)
Instructions to make OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】:
- ★Recipe video★ (my You Tube channel)→https://youtu.be/u59j7GmSckc
- 【For Okonomiyaki batter】Put 200 ml (6.8 fl oz) boiled water in a bowl and add Japanese soup stock, stir well. Put the bowl in water to cool down; set aside. Mix roughly cake flour, baking powder, and dried bonito powder; set aside.
- Grate Japanese yam into a large bowl. Pour the prepared stock in it while stirring. Sift dry ingredients over it.
- Mix well until smooth. Let it sit in a fridge for 3 hours or more to bring out the ''umami''(savory taste) of the flour.
- 【Prepare other ingredients. 】Chop cabbage into about 1 cm (0.4'') square. Chop the core of cabbage into fine pieces. Cut stalks scallion into small pieces. (You should wipe off moisture after you wash vegetables, before cutting them.)
- Cut leaves perilla leaf into small pieces. Chop red pickled ginger into fine pieces.
- 【Cook it with a frying pan.】Put one serving of the batter and vegetables in a bowl (1/4 each). Add an egg and mix roughly.
- Heat a frypan on medium-low heat and add a splash of oil for frying. Pour the okonomiyaki mixture into the pan. Use a spatula to form it into a round pancake about 2cm (0.8'') thick.
- Cook it for 3 mins on medium heat. Gently lay about 1/4 of the pork belly slices on top of the pancake. When golden brown on the bottom, flip it and cook the other side.
- Cook it on medium heat for 4-5 mins until golden too or pork belly gets crispy. Please don't push down on the okonomiyaki in the pan to get a fluffy pancake. Flip it again, warm it on low heat and then turn off the heat.
- 【Toppings】Apply okonomiyaki sauce with a spoon or brush, add mayonnaise in zigzagging lines, and sprinkle dried green nori flakes and dried bonito flakes. Please try freshly cooked OKONOMIYAKI!
- Notes: If the time has passed after putting cabbage into the batter, the water in the cabbage will come out and the batter will become watery. If the batter becomes watery, the cooked okonomiyaki won't get fluffy, so when cooking, it's better to mix the batter and vegetables just before cooking.
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