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Great recipe for Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic). Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is the most popular of Hiroshima soul food. It is cooked by layering cabbage, green onions, pork, eggs and noodles on top of a thin flour dough.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (basic) using 23 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic):
- Take Batter
- Get 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Make ready 3/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon mirin (Japanese rice wine) *optional
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon dashi powder. (kelp powder or Hondashi powder is ok.) *optional
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Get Main Ingredients
- Get 1/2 teaspoon fish meal (or bonito powder)
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon kelp powder *option
- Take 1/2 tablespoon chopped green onion
- Get 2 big handfuls shredded cabbage
- Get 1 normal handful bean sprouts
- Take 2 tablespoon tenkasu (bits of fried tempura batter)
- Get 2 thin slices of bacon or unsalted pork belly (cut in 4" long)
- Prepare 2 portions pre cooked egg noodle
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Prepare Water mixture of 1/8 of cup water, 1 tablespoon of sake, 1 tablespoon of mirin, 1/8 teaspoon of dashi powder *optional
- Get Sauces and Toppings
- Make ready 2 tablespoon Otafuku Okonomiyaki Sauce
- Make ready 2 tablespoon Kewpie mayonnaise *optional
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon aonori (dried powdered seaweed)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon dried bonito *optional
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon red pickled ginger *optional
Hiroshima style okonomiyaki, is unique to the prefecture of Hiroshima where the pancake ingredients are cooked in separate layers. For reference, okonimiyaki in the Kansai region of Japan is not layered, but instead all of the ingredients are mixed together and a single pancake is cooked. Okonomiyaki Recipe Variations Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki Recipe. In addition to our Best Recipe for Osaka style, Hiroshima style of Okonomiyaki is also very popular.
Instructions to make Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic):
- Prepare all the ingredients.
- Here are the ingredients used in this recipe. From the left: Kelp dashi powder, dried kelp (Ground kelp can be used as a substitute of kelp dashi powder), tenkasu, mirin, Otafuku Okonomi Sauce or Otafuku Gluten free Okonomi Sauce (your choice of the sauce), Kewpie mayonnaise, aonori, and dried bonito.
- To prepare the batter, mix flour, water, mirin, dashi and salt. Rest the mixture in the fridge for at least 2 hours so that all the ingredients come together. If time allows, rest it overnight. The batter will become well-blended to make a thin crepe easily. If there is no time, it's OK to use immediately, but it won't be as good.
- Cut the cabbage in quarters and remove the core. Place the core side down, and shred the cabbage starting from the top in abjout 1/8" wide strips. The width is all up to you.
- Heat the electric griddle to 350F. Grease the griddle slightly using a paper towel. Making a thin crepe will be difficult if too much oil is added onto the griddle because a crepe will easily slide off the griddle.
- Scoop a little less than 1/4 cup of batter, and drop it onto one side of the griddle. To make a thin crepe, spread the batter using five concentrate circles starting from the center and moving out. Do not go over the same area more than once and avoid leaving gaps in within the crepe.
- Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon fish meal, 1/4 teaspoon kelp powder and 1/4 tablespoon chopped green onion onto each crepe.
- Once the crepes look dry (in 10-20 seconds after spreading the batter), place one big handful of shredded cabbage and 1/2 handful of bean spouts onto each crepe.
- Add tenkasu onto the bean sprouts. Grill the bacon aside.
- With grilled side down, add bacon on top. Drop a tablespoon of batter onto the pile evenly so all ingredient come together. From the beginning to now, it should take 2 minutes.
- Put the egg noodle on the grease left from the previously cooked bacon. Add the water mixture to moisten it, and add flavor with a table spoon of Okonomi sauce. Adjust the noddle's shape so it is a circular shape slightly smaller than the crepe. Cook the pile and the flavored egg noodles for 2 minutes.
- Once the edge of crepe looks dried and slightly lifted, flip the pile upside down. Raise the temperature of the griddle to 390F, and cook about 30 seconds. Bring the scattered cabbages under the crepe nicely with the spatula.
- Lower the temperature of griddle to 350F. Press down the pile with the spatula to remove the excess moisture. Lift the pile up, rotate it and put it down for a couple of times. In this way, the cabbage is evenly steamed. If the quality of cabbage looks dried, inject 1 tablespoon of the water mixture under the crepe using a tube. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Place the crepe pile onto the noodle. Cook for 1 minute.
- Crack an egg onto the griddle, and spread it in a round shape. Place the pile onto the egg spread, and cook for 30 seconds. Flip the whole pile downside up (egg side up).
- Add Okonomi sauce, mayonnaise, and aonori. Bonito and pickled ginger is optional.
This uses the same basic ingredients as Osaka style, but instead of being all mixed together in a thick pancake, the ingredients are cooked in separate layers on top of the batter which is cooked as a thin pancake or crepe. Try out a different version of a Japanese favourite with this easy Hiroshima okonomiyaki recipe. Unlike the more mainstream version of okonomiyaki, where the batter is mixed with the cabbage and other ingredients, each ingredient in Hiroshima okonomiyaki is stacked on top of each other and covered with a layer of yakisoba noodles, egg, tasty sauces, and toppings. The basic ingredients are similar to its cousin, the Osaka style Okonomiyaki. The exception is the addition of noodles.
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