Fluffy Light Okonomiyaki
- 200 grams Okonomiyaki flour
- 1 block Silken tofu
- 200 grams Yamaimo yam
- 300 ml Water
- 1 tbsp Mentsuyu (optional)
- 4 Eggs
- 8 slice Thinly sliced pork belly (sliced for okonomiyaki)
- 1/2 large Cabbage
- 1 Green onions or scallions
- 1 Tenkasu (tempura batter crumbs, optional)
- 1 Dried shrimp (optional)
- 1 Other - shrimp, squid, scallops, oysters, etc.
- 1 Okonomiyaki sauce (a sweet one)
- 1 Mayonnaise, aonori, bonito flakes
- Chop the cabbage finely.
- Slice the green onion thinly.
- Cut up all the other filler ingredients such as the pork into easy to eat pieces.
- Add the tofu to the flour without draining.
- Add water little by little, add the mentsuyu sauce, and then add the grated yamaimo yam.
- Mix to make the batter.
- Prepare the other ingredients for 1 portion.
- Combine the cabbage, egg, green onion, tenkasu, and dried shrimps.
- Add 1 ladle plus of the batter, and mix together.
- Heat an electric griddle.
- Lay the pork belly strips first, and cook the okonomiyaki with the fat that renders.
- Make the pancake as thick as possible, and don't spread it out.
- Once you pour the batter on the griddle, put the other ingredients on top.
- Flip the pancake over when it's done on one side.
- Don't press down!
- Don't ever press down on it!
- When the center gets fluffy and the added ingredients are cooked through, flip the pancake over one more time.
- Don't press down!!
- !
- Stick the edge of the spatula into the pancake in several places.
- If it comes out clean, the okonomiyaki is done.
- To decorate the top of the okonomiyaki with sauce: Cover the top with lots of okonomiyaki sauce.
- Draw stripes on top with mayonnaise.
- Make stripes perpendicular to the mayonnaise stripes with a thin object, like a chopstick.
- First from top to bottom...
- ..and the next stripe from bottom to top.
- Repeat these two strips, Up, down, down, up...
- Done!
flour, silken, yamaimo yam, water, eggs, pork belly, cabbage, green onions, tenkasu, shrimp, shrimp, mayonnaise
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153449-fluffy-light-okonomiyaki (may not work)