Hiroshima Okonomiyaki 広島風お好み焼き
Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki recipe and instructions with step by step photos and tips to make exactly you would get it in Japan at your home.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 100 ml water
- 70 g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp dashi powder
- 1 drop vegetable oil
- 1 handful bonito flake (*1)
- 150 g thinly shredded cabbage
- 15 g chopped scallions
- 50 g bean sprouts
- 2 tbs Tempura crisps
- 1 tbs seaweed flake
- 1 Yakisoba Noodle (*2)
- 2 tbsp Okonomiyaki sacue
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- 1
Hiroshima Okonomiyaki batter
- 2
Pour the water into a medium sized bowl and add dashi powder and a drop of oil.
- 3
Combine them all using a whisk.
- 4
Add flour and mix until just combined. * 3
- 5
Cover the bowl with a cling wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
- 6
Fry Hiroshima Okonomiyaki all together( for making one)
- 7
Set the hotplate temperature 160-170°C ( 320-338°F) and put 1tbs of the olive oil.
- 8
When the oil heated, pour I ladle of okonomiyaki batter and spread it out from the centre using the bottom of the ladle by circling motion.
- 9
Quickly top with fish bonito flake and cabbage before the batter get cooked.
- 10
Keep adding tempura crisps, chopped scallions, and bean sprouts. *4
- 11
Splatter a little bit of batter *6 and topped with thinly slice pork.
- 12
Using two large pancake flippers, flipp them all together towards yourself.
- 13
While the pork cooked and browned and all other ingredients being steamed cook in the middle, place half of the noodle on the side of it.
- 14
Try to shape the noodle like same size circle.
- 15
When the pork and noodle cooked, place the Okonomiyaki on top of the noodle carefully by using two pancake flippers.
- 16
While the noodle is browend by the weight of the Okonomiyaki, crack a egg next to it.
- 17
Using a pancake flippers corner, break the egg and shape it same sized circle of the okonomiyaki.
- 18
Before the egg completely cooked, lift the okonomiyaki and noodle all together and sliced over the egg with two pancake flippers.
- 19
Spread 1 tbs Okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise and garnish with seaweed flake to serve.