Recipe: Yummy Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki. Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake with cabbage, bean sprout, noodles, sliced pork belly, and a fried egg, topped with savory sauce and Japanese mayo.

Now the fun part, take a frying pan or hot plate and grease with a splash of vegetable oil and place on a medium heat. Make sure the pan is evenly heated before the next step or the okonomiyaki will have trouble taking shape. Hiroshima style okonomiyaki, is unique to the prefecture of Hiroshima where the pancake ingredients are cooked in separate layers. You can cook Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

1. You need of <Crepe>.
2. It's of Plain Flour *about 1/3 cup.
3. It's of Water.
4. Prepare of Oil for cooking.
5. Prepare of *You must save 2 tablespoons batter.
6. Prepare of <Toppings>.
7. It's of Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) *optional, crumbled.
8. It's of thinly sliced Cabbage.
9. You need of Bean Sprouts.
10. You need of ‘Tenkasu’ *also called ‘Agedama’.
11. It's of *Note: ‘Tenkasu’ is Deep-fried Tempura Batter Chips and it can be impossible to find for many of us. The best substitutes are ‘Fried Shallots’, ‘Shrimp Crackers’ or Indian ‘Boondi’.
12. Prepare of thinly sliced Pork.
13. It's of serving (100g) Yakisoba Noodles OR Stir-fry Noodles.
14. You need of Salt & Finely Ground Pepper.
15. It's of Egg.
16. It's of Okonomiyaki Sauce.
17. Prepare of Spring Onion *finely chopped.
18. It's of Aonori (Finely Shredded Green Seaweed) *optional.
19. Prepare of Benishoga (Red Pickled Ginger) OR Pink Pickled Ginger *optional.

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, a savory pancake cooked on an iron hotplate, containing egg, chopped vegetables, meat and/or seafood, is found all over Japan. In Hiroshima, this dish is bulked up by adding noodles and lots of veggies. Rather than mixing all the ingredients together, as in the more common Kansai or Osaka style, here in Hiroshima they are layered.

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki step by step

1. Make the crepe batter by mixing Flour and Water, and set aside. Prepare the vegetables..
2. Heat a large frying pan over high heat, apply a small amount of Oil, and reduce the heat to medium low. *Note: If you use a not-stick frying pan, simply heat over medium low heat and apply a small amount of Oil..
3. Spread the batter to create a crepe about 18cm in diameter. (The larger the crepe is, the harder to flip over.) *You must save 2 tablespoons batter..
4. Sprinkle with the crumbled Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) (*optional). Place thinly sliced Cabbage, Bean Sprouts and ‘Tenkasu’ (OR the substitute), drizzle the saved batter over, and cover with Pork slices. Sprinkle with Salt & Pepper..
5. When the crepe is nicely browned, carefully flip the whole thing over using 2 turners so that the Pork slices are now touching the frying pan. FIGHT against the temptation that you want to press it down, and let it cook slowly for 4 to 5 minutes. (Slow steam-cooking makes the Cabbage sweet.) Then you may press it down..
6. *Tips: Some vegetable pieces would fly off all over the frying pan when you flip it over. Just gather them back to the pancake..
7. Meanwhile, cook Yakisoba Noodles in another frying pan, with a small amount of Oil. Season with Salt & Pepper, OR/AND Okonomiyaki Sauce. Carefully transfer the whole pancake, as Pork slices are facing down, onto the Noodles..
8. Crack an Egg onto the emptied frying pan and spread it out into the same size as the crepe. Carefully transfer the whole pancake with the Noodles onto the Egg. Cook for another 1 minute until the Egg is cooked..
9. Flip over the completed Okonomiyaki, and transfer to the serving plate..
10. Spread a generous amount of Okonomiyaki Sauce on the top, sprinkle with Aonori (*optional) and finely chopped Spring Onion, and enjoy with Pickled Ginger (*optional). Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki is traditionally served WITHOUT mayonnaise..

Okonomiyaki is mainly associated with the Kansai or Hiroshima areas of Japan, but is widely available throughout the country. Toppings and batters tend to vary according to region. In Tokyo, there is a semi-liquid okonomiyaki called monjayaki. Hiroshima Okonomiyaki consists of shredded cabbage, tempura crisps, scallions, bean sprouts, pork, yakisoba noodle, fried egg, okonomiyaki sauce and seaweed flake. Tempura crisps are a byproduct of Tempura.