I got this delicious recipe for Okonomiyaki from my friend Mayumi, who is from Osaka. Okonomiyaki is basically a savory vegetable and meat pancake that is topped with 2 kinds of sauce: Okonomi sauce, which is similar to Worcestershire sauce but is thicker and sweeter, and Mayonnaise - the mayonnaise used on okonomiyaki is a Japanese brand called Kewpie. It is a bit thinner and more tangy than the mayo sold in the US. Many people call Okonomiyaki "Japanese Pizza", which is a translation that doesn't really work, frankly. It is round, hot, and you choose what sort of meat you want to put in it; but that's pretty much where the similarities end. You can use whatever sort of meat you'd like in these, the most common is pork and/or shrimp; but you could use chicken or bacon or squid or anything…

Ingredients

2 serv.

cup flour↗1
eggs↗2
cup water↗1⁄3
cups cabbage, finely chopped↗2
green onions, finely chopped↗4
tablespoon pickled ginger, finely chopped↗1
lb pork belly, cut in very thin strips1⁄2
kewpie mayonnaise↗
okonomi sauce
bonito flakes
Pam cooking spray or vegetable oil

Step-by-step instructions

1
In a large bowl, beat together the eggs, nagaimo and water.
2
Slowly beat in the okonomiyaki mix until it is well incorporated with the nagaimo/egg mixture. This is your okonomiyaki batter.
3
Mix the cabbage, kimchee, green onions and pickled ginger into the okonomiyaki batter. Set aside.
4
Heat a large skillet over medium heat and grease lightly with Pam or vegetable oil.
5
Fry the pork belly until it is just cooked (do not brown, it will be cooking more later) and set aside.
6
Add the 1/2 cup of tenkasu to the okonomiyaki batter.
7
Make a large pancake (or two smaller ones) in the skillet with the okonomiyaki batter - you will have to be turning this pancake over at some point, so don't make it so big that you won't be able to flip it.
8
Place the cooked pork belly on top of the pancake and push it down a bit (gently) into the batter. Let the pancake cook for about 10 minutes. Keep peeking at the bottom - you want it to brown but not to burn.
9
Flip the pancake over and let it cook for another 5 minutes or so until it is browned.
10
Place the pancake on a plate and top with okonomi sauce, mayonnaise, and bonito flakes - the heat from the pancake will make the bonito flakes "dance"! It's pretty cool.

Source: food.com

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