OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】. Put the bowl in water to cool down; set aside. Mix roughly cake flour, baking powder, and dried bonito powder; set aside. Okonomiyaki is the famous Japanese savory pancake that is usually cooked at the dining table so you can customize it to your taste.
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is sometimes called “Japanese savory pancake” or “Japanese pizza”, but personally, I think it’s more like a dish between savory pancake and frittata. Top this dish off with a delicious sauce and the whole family will enjoy. In Japan, the batter and toppings will differ from region to region, but the three main styles are Kansai or Osaka, Hiroshima, and Tokyo. You can cook OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】 using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】
- It’s 250 g (8.8 oz) of thin sliced pork belly.
- Prepare 400 g (14 oz) of cabbage, about 1/2 heads.
- Prepare 6 stalks of scallion.
- Prepare 40 g (1.4 oz) of red pickled ginger.
- It’s 10 leaves of perilla leaf.
- Prepare 4 of eggs.
- Prepare of oil for frying.
- You need of Okonomi-yaki batter.
- Prepare 200 ml (6.8 fl oz) of boiled water.
- You need 2 tsp of Japanese soup stock (dashi), granule type.
- Prepare 200 g of (7 oz, 1.6 cups) cake flour.
- Prepare 1.5 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 2 tsp of dried bonito powder (optional).
- It’s 150 g (5.3 oz) of Japanese yam.
- It’s of Topping (adjust to suit your taste).
- Prepare of okonomiyaki sauce (savory pancake sauce, It’s kind of similar to barbecue sauce.).
- You need of mayonnaise.
- It’s of dried green nori flakes.
- You need of dried bonito flakes.
- Prepare of 1cup=235cc(USA).
My favourite is the Kansai style because that’s the area I grew up in. See great recipes for OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】 too! It’s a traditional Japanese savoury pancake that is sometimes also called Japanese pizza and is a very popular festival (matsuri) street food in Japan. There are many Okonomiyaki-ya, or Japanese restaurants that serve this delicious pancake, where you can even make your own with tables that have built in grill, or teppan.
OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)【Recipe Video】 instructions
- ★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..
More information Best Okonomiyaki Recipe (Osaka style) or better known as ‘Japanese Pizza’. “This is a recipe for a basic home-cooked Osaka-style okonomiyaki. In addition to pork belly, common fillings include: tomato and cheese; oysters; squid; or shrimp. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese pancake stuffed with yummy goodness! ‘Okonomi’ means what you like and ‘yaki’ means grilled. The ingredients provided are the basic okonomiyaki recipe. Feel free to add any vegetables or other meats.