Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake with cabbage, bean sprout, noodles, sliced pork belly and a fried egg, topped with savory sauce and Japanese mayo. How to make Hiroshima Okonomiyaki using a frying pan. This is the easiest way to make this delicious Japanese savory pancake.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have hiroshima-style okonomiyaki using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki:
- Get <Crepe>
- Prepare 50 g Plain Flour *about 1/3 cup
- Take 100 ml Water
- Get Oil for cooking
- Prepare *You must save 2 tablespoons batter
- Take <Toppings>
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) *optional, crumbled
- Prepare 2 handfuls thinly sliced Cabbage
- Take 1 handful Bean Sprouts
- Take 2 tablespoons ‘Tenkasu’ *also called ‘Agedama’
- Make ready *Note: ‘Tenkasu’ is Deep-fried Tempura Batter Chips and it can be impossible to find for many of us. The best substitutes are ‘Fried Shallots’, ‘Shrimp Crackers’ or Indian ‘Boondi’
- Take 50 g thinly sliced Pork
- Prepare 1 serving (100g) Yakisoba Noodles OR Stir-fry Noodles
- Prepare Salt & Finely Ground Pepper
- Make ready 1 Egg
- Take Okonomiyaki Sauce
- Get 1 Spring Onion *finely chopped
- Make ready Aonori (Finely Shredded Green Seaweed) *optional
- Make ready Benishoga (Red Pickled Ginger) OR Pink Pickled Ginger *optional
Trying Hiroshima's "soul food" is a must. You haven't done Hiroshima if you haven't done Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki! The Hiroshima style okonomiyaki starts out with a layer of the batter being poured onto the pan that is topped with a pile of shredded cabbage and bean sprouts and then some shrimp and bacon. Which region makes the best okonomiyaki?
Steps to make Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki:
- Make the crepe batter by mixing Flour and Water, and set aside. Prepare the vegetables.
- Heat a large frying pan over high heat, apply a small amount of Oil, and reduce the heat to medium low. *Note: If you use a not-stick frying pan, simply heat over medium low heat and apply a small amount of Oil.
- Spread the batter to create a crepe about 18cm in diameter. (The larger the crepe is, the harder to flip over.) *You must save 2 tablespoons batter.
- Sprinkle with the crumbled Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) (*optional). Place thinly sliced Cabbage, Bean Sprouts and ‘Tenkasu’ (OR the substitute), drizzle the saved batter over, and cover with Pork slices. Sprinkle with Salt & Pepper.
- When the crepe is nicely browned, carefully flip the whole thing over using 2 turners so that the Pork slices are now touching the frying pan. FIGHT against the temptation that you want to press it down, and let it cook slowly for 4 to 5 minutes. (Slow steam-cooking makes the Cabbage sweet.) Then you may press it down.
- *Tips: Some vegetable pieces would fly off all over the frying pan when you flip it over. Just gather them back to the pancake.
- Meanwhile, cook Yakisoba Noodles in another frying pan, with a small amount of Oil. Season with Salt & Pepper, OR/AND Okonomiyaki Sauce. Carefully transfer the whole pancake, as Pork slices are facing down, onto the Noodles.
- Crack an Egg onto the emptied frying pan and spread it out into the same size as the crepe. Carefully transfer the whole pancake with the Noodles onto the Egg. Cook for another 1 minute until the Egg is cooked.
- Flip over the completed Okonomiyaki, and transfer to the serving plate.
- Spread a generous amount of Okonomiyaki Sauce on the top, sprinkle with Aonori (*optional) and finely chopped Spring Onion, and enjoy with Pickled Ginger (*optional). Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is traditionally served WITHOUT mayonnaise.
But the main two competing regions for the best style of Okonomiyaki are Hiroshima and Kansai. Front Left: Osaka Style Okonomiyaki; Right: Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki. Even when outside of Hiroshima, you'll sometimes see restaurants serving "Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki." In the Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki, a small thin pancake is grilled and then other ingredients are layered on top, starting with a large amount of shredded cabbage. This Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is a twist on the traditional Japanese savoury pancake as it layers ingredients including yakisoba noodles and egg. Okonomiyaki has been described as 'Japanese pizza' or 'Japanese pancake.'.
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