Okonomiyaki:

Okonomiyaki is often described as a Japanese pizza. It can be filled with various Ingredients like fish, cheese, bacon, ricecake or different vegetables.

Normally its made on a hot plate (Teppanyaki), but because I sadly live in Germany I developed my own way to make Okonomiyaki in 2 fry pans.

You can change the filling to your liking, although cabbage is more or less the filling you will found in nearly every Okonomiyaki.

I love noodles, this is why I went for a Yakisoba base. You can also skip the Yakisoba part and go with a plain egg base. ^_-

Ingredients (6 portions)

1,5 cups fleur

2 cups water

1 small bag of Dashimoto

oil

Pizza Cheese

1/2 cabbage

Champignons

Bacon stripes (12)

6 eggs

3 packs of Chuuka soba

Okonomiyaki sauce

Mayonnaise

Yakisoba sauce

Bonito flakes

Nori flakes

As for the Yakisoba/ Okonomiyaki sauces: I like to use the brand “Otafuku”. I tried out various brands and just love the taste of this sauces. You can also make the sauces by yourself.

Preparations:

1) Cook the Chuuka soba and mix the soba with the Yakisoba sauce (like instructed on the package).

2) Chop the vegetables into small pieces.

3) Mix the Dashimoto, water and fleur until the lumps

disappeared.

Now we can start!

1) Pan 1: Fill some batter into the pan, wait a bit and top it with cheese

Pan 2: Fry the bacon until its crispy

2) Pan 1: Top the Batter with Cabbage, champions. Add some batter on the top and afterwards the bacon.

Pan 2: Fry 1 egg

3) Pan 1: Flip the whole thing (if some cabbage drops out, just push it under the batter after flipping). Wait until the cabbage is more or less cooked (to your liking).

4) Pan 2: Put the egg onto a plate. Top the egg with the prepared Yakisoba.

5) Pan 1: Take the batter and put it on the yakisoba.

6) Decorate it with Okonomiyaki sauce, Mayonnaise, Bonito and Nori

Enjoy!

Some hacks:

1) If you don’t like raw cabbage, fry it before adding the cabbage to the batter

2) If you use 2 pancake turners, its easier to flip the Okonomiyaki

3) Press the Okonomiyaki with the pancake turner in Step 3) from time to time in the pan.

Also press the Yakisoba on to the Egg after step 3). If you flatten it out, its easier to eat afterwards and don’t look like the tower of Pisa.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask. 

And no worries this will not become a cooking blog.

Im not good at cooking at all. Actually Okonomiyaki is the only food I can make. XD