Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki
Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna 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. Watch the video tutorial for step-by-step instructions! Have you tried the Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) before? Hiroshima style okonomiyaki, is unique to the prefecture of Hiroshima where the pancake ingredients are cooked in separate layers.

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

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

This is the Hiroshima version of the okonomiyaki is made in a layered fashion. Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki is a layered pancake with the batter making up only a thin layer at the bottom. Osaka Style Okonomiyaki is more floury and pancake-like with the ingredients mixed into the batter. Both are equally tasty and so it is a matter of preference.

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.

Osaka Style Okonomiyaki is more floury and pancake-like with the ingredients mixed into the batter. Both are equally tasty and so it is a matter of preference. Ingredients To Make This Okonomiyaki This Hiroshima style okonomiyaki is special to me because it reminds me of one of my trips to Japan. For this variation, we're using yakisoba noodles and adding in a sunny side up egg. It's best served hot off the stove and topped with Kewpie Mayonnaise, Okonomiyaki sauce and of course - aonori, katsuobushi, and shichimi pepper.

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