How to Cook Yummy OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)

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Put the bowl in water to cool down; set aside. Mix roughly cake flour, baking powder, and dried bonito powder; set aside. Okonomiyaki, sometimes referred to as Japanese "pizza", is a comforting street food that takes well to leftover veggies, veggie proteins and even the occasional soba noodle. You can have OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake) using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake)

1. You need 250 g (8.8 oz) of thin sliced pork belly.
2. It's 400 g (14 oz) of cabbage, about 1/2 heads.
3. It's 6 stalks of scallion.
4. Prepare 40 g (1.4 oz) of red pickled ginger.
5. Prepare 10 leaves of perilla leaf.
6. It's 4 of eggs.
7. Prepare of oil for frying.
8. Prepare of Okonomi-yaki batter.
9. It's 200 ml (6.8 fl oz) of boiled water.
10. It's 2 tsp of Japanese soup stock (dashi), granule type.
11. You need 200 g of (7 oz, 1.6 cups) cake flour.
12. You need 1.5 tsp of baking powder.
13. It's 2 tsp of dried bonito powder (optional).
14. You need 150 g (5.3 oz) of Japanese yam.
15. Prepare of Topping (adjust to suit your taste).
16. Prepare of okonomiyaki sauce (savory pancake sauce, It's kind of similar to barbecue sauce.).
17. It's of mayonnaise.
18. You need of dried green nori flakes.
19. You need of dried bonito flakes.
20. You need of 1cup=235cc(USA).

The secret to it's gluey batter is the root veggie nagaimo, sometimes called "mountain potato", a mild-flavored Japanese tuber that gets crazy gooey as you shred it; look for it in Japanese or Korean markets. Okonomiyaki are Japanese savoury pancakes packed with flavour and SO easy to make! Why We Love This This is one of our favourite (and most cooked) Japanese recipes ever from our blog. Popular street food from Osaka, Japan, Okonomiyaki is a savory version of Japanese pancake, made with flour, eggs, shredded cabbage, and your choice of protein, and topped with a variety of condiments.

OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake) step by step

1. ★Recipe video★ (my You Tube channel)→https://youtu.be/u59j7GmSckc.
2. 【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..
3. Grate Japanese yam into a large bowl. Pour the prepared stock in it while stirring. Sift dry ingredients over it..
4. 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..
5. 【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.).
6. Cut leaves perilla leaf into small pieces. Chop red pickled ginger into fine pieces..
7. 【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..
8. 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..
9. 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..
10. 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..
11. 【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!.
12. 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..

Among all the Osaka specialty, Takoyaki (たこ焼き) and Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) are most well-known. OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake). Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a Japanese street food which is very popular among Western visitors who often try it for the first time in Japan. It is a savory pancake with a batter made with loads of shredded cabbage then pan fried with egg, sliced meat and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes) on top. OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese Pizza / Japanese Savory Pancake).