Step-by-Step Guide to Make Favorite Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic)

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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. Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (広島風お好み焼き) is a type of Okonomiyaki that originated in Hiroshima, Japan. How to make Hiroshima Okonomiyaki using a frying pan. This is the easiest way to make this delicious Japanese savory pancake.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (basic) using 23 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic):

1. Get Batter
2. Take 1/2 cup all purpose flour
3. Get 3/4 cup water
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon mirin (Japanese rice wine) *optional
5. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon dashi powder. (kelp powder or Hondashi powder is ok.) *optional
6. Take 1 pinch salt
7. Make ready Main Ingredients
8. Get 1/2 teaspoon fish meal (or bonito powder)
9. Get 1/2 teaspoon kelp powder *option
10. Prepare 1/2 tablespoon chopped green onion
11. Make ready 2 big handfuls shredded cabbage
12. Take 1 normal handful bean sprouts
13. Get 2 tablespoon tenkasu (bits of fried tempura batter)
14. Take 2 thin slices of bacon or unsalted pork belly (cut in 4" long)
15. Prepare 2 portions pre cooked egg noodle
16. Make ready 2 eggs
17. Make ready Water mixture of 1/8 of cup water, 1 tablespoon of sake, 1 tablespoon of mirin, 1/8 teaspoon of dashi powder *optional
18. Take Sauces and Toppings
19. Prepare 2 tablespoon Otafuku Okonomiyaki Sauce
20. Prepare 2 tablespoon Kewpie mayonnaise *optional
21. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon aonori (dried powdered seaweed)
22. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon dried bonito *optional
23. Take 1/2 teaspoon red 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. Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki is a layered pancake with the batter making up only a thin layer at the bottom. This is a full size Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki (Japanese Layered Pancakes) served on its own as a main dish. The difference with Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is that the ingredients are carefully layered, so you get a distinct bite of every flavour!

Instructions to make Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki (Basic):

1. Prepare all the ingredients.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon fish meal, 1/4 teaspoon kelp powder and 1/4 tablespoon chopped green onion onto each crepe.
8. 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.
9. Add tenkasu onto the bean sprouts. Grill the bacon aside.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Place the crepe pile onto the noodle. Cook for 1 minute.
15. 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).
16. Add Okonomi sauce, mayonnaise, and aonori. Bonito and pickled ginger is optional.

This is a full size Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki (Japanese Layered Pancakes) served on its own as a main dish. The difference with Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is that the ingredients are carefully layered, so you get a distinct bite of every flavour! Hiroshima style okonomiyaki also uses noodles and fried eggs as toppings, which is unusual compared to the standard okonomiyaki dish. When served with a layer of fried noodles (either yakisoba or udon), the resulting dish is called modan-yaki (モダン焼き), the name of which may be derived from the English word "modern" or as a contraction of mori dakusan (盛りだくさん). All Hiroshima okonomiyaki starts with the basic niku-tama, consisting of pork, eggs, cabbage layered between two thin crepes.

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