Easy Way to Prepare Delicious Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

Hey everyone, welcome to our recipe page. Today I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki Recipe. At that time, the country was quite poor and people only used a little bit of flour and vegetables to make Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. The current Hiroshima Okonomiyaki with meat, egg, and noodles is a version that has evolved throughout the years.

You can cook Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

1. You need of <Crepe>.
2. It’s 50 g of Plain Flour *about 1/3 cup.
3. It’s 100 ml of Water.
4. Take of Oil for cooking.
5. It’s of *You must save 2 tablespoons batter.
6. You need of <Toppings>.
7. Take 1 tablespoon of Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes) *optional, crumbled.
8. Prepare 2 handfuls of thinly sliced Cabbage.
9. Prepare 1 handful of Bean Sprouts.
10. Take 2 tablespoons of ‘Tenkasu’ *also called ‘Agedama’.
11. You need 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. Make ready 50 g of thinly sliced Pork.
13. Prepare 1 of serving (100g) Yakisoba Noodles OR Stir-fry Noodles.
14. Take of Salt & Finely Ground Pepper.
15. It’s 1 of Egg.
16. You need of Okonomiyaki Sauce.
17. It’s 1 of Spring Onion *finely chopped.
18. You need of Aonori (Finely Shredded Green Seaweed) *optional.
19. Take of Benishoga (Red Pickled Ginger) OR Pink Pickled Ginger *optional.

This is the Hiroshima version of the okonomiyaki is made in a layered fashion.Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き広島風) This Hiroshima style okonomiyaki is my favorite.I like this more than Osaka the other most popular okonomiyaki.In Japan, there's a rivalry between Hiroshima and Osaka, on who has better okonomiyaki.

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..

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.Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima Style Recipe : Okonomiyaki is Japanese comfort food also known as the Japanese pancake or the Japanese pizza where the base is made with vegetables and it is commonly topped with a sweet Worcestershire like sauce along with mayonnaise.

Similar to the rivalry of New York pizza versus Chicago style pizza.The Hot plate is particularly useful for making Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki.This is because you need to cook the Okonomiyaki batter, and quickly pile up ingredient after ingredient.At same time, the noodles need to be cooked.And while the Noodles and other ingredients are being steam cooked, the egg needs to be cooked beside.