Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, octopus ball (takoyaki). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Takoyaki, which literally translates to grilled octopus, are round shaped balls made with a mixture of whole wheat batter, eggs, soy sauce, and dashi, stuffed with chopped octopus, scallions, and benishouga (pickled red ginger). The batter is poured in a special takoyaki pan which comes with rounded molds to create the iconic takoyaki ball shape. Vegetarians can replace the octopus with vegetables like shiitake mushrooms. - If you don't have a takoyaki pan, you can also use a aebleskiver pan for Danish pancake puffs.
Octopus Ball (Takoyaki) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Octopus Ball (Takoyaki) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have octopus ball (takoyaki) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Octopus Ball (Takoyaki):
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Get 2 egg
- Prepare 3/4 cup water
- Take 1 teaspoon Dashi powder (Japanese fish stock powder)
- Get octopus
- Make ready minced spring onion
- Make ready red ginger
- Prepare Tempra flake or cut tempra
- Get bonito flake
If the batter is too thick, add a little more water. Heat and lightly grease the hotplate of a takoyaki. Takoyaki or Japanese octopus balls are an iconic Japanese snack or street food that is filled with octopus chunks, other various ingredients, and topped with sauces and toppings full of umami flavor! Although it's usually associated as a food eaten outside on the street, it's actually very easy to make at home.
Steps to make Octopus Ball (Takoyaki):
- Make Takoyaki batter.
- Prepare ingredients on the table and this is Takoyaki cooker.
- Pour the batter half in cooker and put octopus, ginger, spring onion and Tempra flake then pour the batter over.
- Turn Takoyaki ball with chopsticks or folk.
- Sprinkle bonito flakes and your favorite sauce. Soy sauce or Takoyaki sauce with mayonnaise is best.
OCTOPUS BALLS are a common street food in Japan and I've finally mustered enough confidence to try it out!. These octopus balls are usually dressed with a special Takoyaki Sauce which is similar to Okonomiyaki sauce. It has a sweet fruity flavor but is mellower than Okonomiyaki sauce. It is also often dressed with Japanese mayonnaise. I recommend the "Otafuku" brand, and they should be available from Japanese grocery stores.
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