Okonomiyakiお好み焼き

Okonomiyaki or お好み焼きis a famous savoury Japanese pancake where you can find it at every corner at Japan. It is originated from Osaka, Japan. Basically, most of the ingredients are available in my country, Malaysia but not for the okonomi sauce or Otafuku. Perhaps, you may get it easily now at hypermarkets which import Japanese products.

My sakura trip to Japan triggered me to buy those ingredients from Japan, planning to make it once I was back. And I had both okonomi sauce and bonito flakes or katsuobushi.

Okonomiyakiお好み焼き

Batter

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2cups water

¼ tspn chicken stocks (optional)

Other ingredients:

1 Cabbage, sliced

Chicken, sliced

Crab sticks, sliced

1 Onion, sliced

Okonomi sauce/ otafuku

Bonito flakes/ katsuobushi

Mayonnaise

4 eggs

*You may add any of your favourite ingredients like spring onion, bacon, sausage and seafood!

Method:

1. Whisk flour and water until smooth before adding in chicken stock to form a batter.

2. Put suitable amount of the batter into a bowl together with 1 egg, sliced cabbage, onion, chicken, crab sticks and mix them together.

3. Heat up a pan with some oil.

4. Add the mixture on the pan and form pancake using spatula.

5. After few minutes, flip over and cook for another few minutes until both sides turn brown.

6. Add bonito flakes onto the pancake before flipping over. (Notice the dancing bonito flakes! It is really magical!)

7. Flip over again and now drizzle it with mayonnaise and okonomi sauce accordingly. (You may sprinkle it with seaweed flakes/aonori and bonito flakes)

8. Serve it while it is hot.