Okonomiyaki (Japanese style pancake)

There are many delicious pancakes around the world like a strawberry pancake, a banana chocolate pancake, a marron pancake with lot’s of whipped cream of course we have many sweet desert pancakes in Japan however there are also Japanese style savory pancake, it’s called Okonomiyaki お好み焼き here. Okonomi means whatever you like and yaki means bake or grill so that Okonomiyaki is something grilled that mixed with whatever you like. It contains mainly a lot of cabbages in it. It’s like a pizza too.
I’m going to share how to cook Okonomiyaki simply today.

The powder of Okonomiyaki

A chef of Okonomiyaki restaurant cook it that mixes some flours, water, egg, Japanese soup stock called dashi and more. But there are useful kit for homemade Okonomiyaki at the supermarket! When I usually cook Okonomiyaki at home, I use this Okonomiyaki kit by OTAFUKU that is already contains wheat flour, yam powder, salt, sugar, lot’s of broth and many toppings and more. At an important point is to contain yam powder. Japanese yam makes okonomiyaki fluffy and airy.

Recipe

Mix 160cc water and Okonomiyaki powder.
Cut a lot of cabbages almost 300g.
Mix cabbages, green spring onion 10g, one back of tempura scraps included and two eggs into Okonomiyaki batter with containing air.

If you like fluffy Okonomiyaki, add some grated Japanese yam.

You can add anything you want! I put a lot of cheese, some boiled whitebaits, sergestes lucens celled Sakura shrimp in Japanese and Natto it is fermented soybeans.

How to grill

Grill them shaped circle 2 centimeters in thickness on the electric griddle .
After 3 minutes, place the 3 slices boneless pork ribs and turn them over.
Put the lid on and steam them for about 4 minutes.
Take the lid off and check golden brown on the bottom.
Turn them over and grill them 3 minutes more.

Toppings

You can put toppings anything you want, usually we put some mayonnaise, sauce, bonito flakes and green dried seaweed. I love spicy so I add lot’s of chili sauce and Chinese spice seasonings.

Summary

It’s easy to cook and you can get a lot of vegetables of course you can put anything you want in Okonomiyaki. It is famous in west of Japan especially Osaka prefecture. There are so many Okonomiyaki restaurants in Osaka and each restaurant have different tastes. It’s worth a try many different restaurants around Osaka when you visit there!

See you next time!