Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki
Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hiroshima-style okonomiyaki using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki:
  1. Make ready <Crepe>
  2. Take 50 g Plain Flour *about 1/3 cup
  3. Get 100 ml Water
  4. Prepare Oil for cooking
  5. Prepare *You must save 2 tablespoons batter
  6. Get <Toppings>
  7. Get 1 tablespoon Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) *optional, crumbled
  8. Make ready 2 handfuls thinly sliced Cabbage
  9. Get 1 handful Bean Sprouts
  10. Take 2 tablespoons ‘Tenkasu’ *also called ‘Agedama’
  11. 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’
  12. Prepare 50 g thinly sliced Pork
  13. Get 1 serving (100g) Yakisoba Noodles OR Stir-fry Noodles
  14. Get Salt & Finely Ground Pepper
  15. Get 1 Egg
  16. Make ready Okonomiyaki Sauce
  17. Prepare 1 Spring Onion *finely chopped
  18. Prepare Aonori (Finely Shredded Green Seaweed) *optional
  19. Prepare Benishoga (Red Pickled Ginger) OR Pink Pickled Ginger *optional

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. Trying Hiroshima's "soul food" is a must. If you're talking about okonomiyaki then it has to be in Osaka or Hiroshima. Okonomiyaki has been described as 'Japanese pizza' or 'Japanese pancake.'.

Steps to make Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki:
  1. Make the crepe batter by mixing Flour and Water, and set aside. Prepare the vegetables.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. *Tips: Some vegetable pieces would fly off all over the frying pan when you flip it over. Just gather them back to the pancake.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Flip over the completed Okonomiyaki, and transfer to the serving plate.
  10. 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.

This video shows that the similarity ends at its shape and the number of items one can choose to put into it. One type of Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki, has a style in which it is grilled while the ingredients are stacked, instead of mixed. Putting noodles, eggs, and bean sprout on the top is also. This Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is a twist on the traditional Japanese savoury pancake as it layers ingredients including yakisoba noodles and egg. THe Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki uses similar ingredients as the Osaka-style, but the biggest difference is that while the Osaka-style mixes all the ingredients, the.

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