Japanese Okonomiyaki
Okonomiyaki is a savory pancake that is one of the foods you must try when you are in Japan but they are also relatively easy to make at home.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups warm water
- 1 teaspoon dashi power
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tbsp potato starch or corn starch
- 3 cups cabbage, finely chopped
- 4 tbsp green onion, finely chopped
- 4 tbsp French fried onion or tenkasu if you have it
- 6-8 strips bacon
- vegetable oil
- roasted sesame seeds optional
Toppings
- tonkatsu sauce
- Japanese mayonaise
- red ginger (beni-shoga) optional
- aonori optional
Instructions
- Add dashi powder in the warm water and mix until mostly dissolved. In a large bowl, put flour, baking powder and potato/corn starch and pour dashi mix to make batter. Rest the batter for up to an hour in the refrigerator.
- Mix ingredients for one serving/one sheet of okonomiyaki at a time: Take about 1/2 cup of the batter into another bowl. Then mix about 3/4 cup of chopped cabbage, 1 tablespoon of green onions, and a tablespoon of French onion. Add an egg in the batter and stir.To make the batter for all 4 servings at once: Mix cabbage, green onions, French fried onion and eggs into the batter and stir. Then divide the batter into 4 servings. NOTE that mixing batter for one serving at a time is recommended so that each serving gets the equal amount of all the ingredients.
- Lightly oil and heat a griddle or skillet over medium heat. Pour cabbage batter mix in the pan into a round shape. Cook for about 5-6 minutes.
- Before flipping the okonomiyaki, add 1-2 slices of bacon and sprinkle roasted sesame. Flip the okonomiyaki and cook for about 5 minutes. (You can also add another egg on top before flipping if you want a fried egg on your okonomiyaki!)
- Remove okonomiyaki from griddle/skillet. Spread sauce and mayonnaise on top. Sprinkle aonori over sauce and mayo, add red ginger on top or on the side and serve while hot. Or you can serve the okonomiyaki without any toppings so that each person can add any of the toppings as they prefer!