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How To Make Traditional Okonomiyaki Easily At Home

Okonomiyaki are the Japanese Street Food Pancakes of your dreams. No not the fluffy pancakes that you've seen float around the internet, these are better. This is a real deal (kind of authentic) okonomiyaki that in my opinion is the best way to serve it. It's simple, easy to make, and it's delicious. That's how I like mine.

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Prep
5 minutes
Cook
8-10 minutes
Total
13-15 minutes
Serves
1
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Ingredients

Okonomiyaki Batter:

  • 1 cup (152g) all purpose flour
  • ¼ tsp (1g) baking powder
  • ½ tsp (3g) kosher salt
  • 4 whole eggs, whisked  
  • ½ cup (120ml) dashi
  • ½  large head cabbage 
  • 1 bunch green onion, only the whites, save the greens for garnish, thinly sliced 
  • 2 Tbsp (30g) red pickled ginger chopped (beni shoga)
  • ½ cup (30g) agedama/tenkasu (tempura scrap) *optional* 
  • ¼ lb shrimp, poached and cut into small bite sized pieces

Homemade Okonomiyaki Sauce: 

  • 2 Tbsp (53g) lacto ketchup or regular ketchup
  • 2 Tbsp (30ml) Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 Tbsp (14ml) soy sauce
  • 1 Tbsp (14g) honey
  • 2 tsp (8g) molasses

Toppings:

  • Bonito Flakes  
  • Thin sliced green onion  
  • Thin chiffonade nori

Directions

Batter:

  1. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, whole eggs and dashi. Lumps are ok.
  2. Season your green cabbage, with salt, and squeeze the water out of it.
  3. Poach your shrimp in a bit of dashi. Cool off and cut into small pieces
  4. Toss cabbage, shrimp, pickled ginger, agedama and onion whites in batter.
  5. To cook the pancake, start a nonstick pan with a cooking spray on medium heat.
  6. Add thin strips of pork belly.
  7. Flip pancake and brush with sauce.
  8. Flip pancake again and brush the other side with sauce.
  9. Once pancake is done, finish with one last drizzle of sauce, finish with bonito flakes, kewpie mayonnaise, sliced green onions and nori.

Okonomiyaki Sauce:

  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Store and use as needed.

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