Description
Okonomiyaki is one of my favourites – an absolutely addictively savoury Japanese pancake topped with juicy prawns and sticky sauce!
Ingredients
Units
For the pancake
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 120ml fish stock
- 150g firm silken tofu, mashed with a fork
- 3 eggs
- 450g green cabbage, thinly sliced
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
- 1/2 cup rice crackers or tempura scraps
- 100g caught on line peeled medium prawns
- 3 Tbsp pickled ginger (optional but great!)
- thinly sliced nori seaweed, Japanese mayo and spring onions for topping
For the sauce
- 3 Tbsp Oyster sauce
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 5 Tbsp tomato sauce
- 3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
The Pancake
- Add the flour to a bowl, then the tofu and reserved prawn stock.
- Lightly whisk into a smooth batter, cover with a tea towel, then place in the fridge to rest for one hour.
- Add the eggs, ginger, spring onions and tempura scraps or rice crackers.
- Once the batter is combined, add the cabbage and prawn meat, and stir.
- Add a small amount of oil to a frying pan and measure out a small scoop of pancake batter into the pan.
- Cook for 8-10 minutes, with the lid on, over medium heat.
- When the pancake is cooked through, flip it over and poke several holes through the top to allow steam to escape.
- Cook for a further 5 minutes until crispy.
The Sauce
- While the okonomiyaki is cooking, prepare the sauce.
- Combine all of the sauce ingredients together in a bowl, and microwave until the sugar has completely dissolved. You can also do this on the stovetop.
Assembly
- Brush the pancake with the okonomi sauce, turn the pancake glazed-side down onto a plate, and brush the other side thickly with sauce.
- Cover generously with kewpie mayonnaise, (for additional decoration tips, click here for the video) top with shredded nori or bonito flakes, if available.
- Finally, top with fresh spring onion salad.
Enjoy!
- Category: Mains
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Japanese
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 1315.92kcal
- Sugar: 38.54g
- Sodium: 5282.96mg
- Fat: 38.33g
- Saturated Fat: 8.6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 14.07g
- Trans Fat: 0.05g
- Carbohydrates: 171.55g
- Fiber: 16.62g
- Protein: 77.71g
- Cholesterol: 520.78mg