Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki
Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is something that I’ve loved my entire 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. The recipe for Hiroshima style okonomiyaki (savory pancake) differs slightly from those made in Tokyo and Kansai regions.

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

The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki:
  1. Take <Crepe>
  2. Prepare 50 g Plain Flour *about 1/3 cup
  3. Make ready 100 ml Water
  4. Make ready Oil for cooking
  5. Make ready *You must save 2 tablespoons batter
  6. Make ready <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. Make ready 50 g thinly sliced Pork
  13. Make ready 1 serving (100g) Yakisoba Noodles OR Stir-fry Noodles
  14. Take Salt & Finely Ground Pepper
  15. Take 1 Egg
  16. Get Okonomiyaki Sauce
  17. Prepare 1 Spring Onion *finely chopped
  18. Get Aonori (Finely Shredded Green Seaweed) *optional
  19. Take Benishoga (Red Pickled Ginger) OR Pink Pickled Ginger *optional

Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki is a layered pancake with the batter making up only a thin layer at This is a full size Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki (Japanese Layered Pancakes) served on its own as. 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.'.

Instructions 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.

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.'. 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.

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