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Steps to Prepare Ultimate Hiroshima Okonomiyaki

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Beulah Willis
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Hiroshima Okonomiyaki

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hiroshima okonomiyaki. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hiroshima okonomiyaki using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hiroshima Okonomiyaki:
  1. Prepare 1 c. Flour or Okonomiyaki flour
  2. Take 1 t. Mirin
  3. Prepare 2/3 c. Cold water
  4. Take 1 small head of cabbage, rinsed
  5. Make ready 2 c. Bean sprouts, rinsed and drained
  6. Make ready 2 bunches green onions, thinly and diagonally sluced
  7. Get 1 lb. pork belly, thinly sliced
  8. Make ready 2 eggs
  9. Take Okonomiyaki sauce
  10. Get Kewpie mayonnaise
  11. Prepare 1 pkg. yakisoba (3/pkg)
  12. Prepare Oil

Okonomiyaki is the most famous as Hiroshima soul food, and as for the number of the Okonomiyaki restaurants per population in each prefecture in Japan, Hiroshima prefecture ranks in the first. Okonomiyaki is cooked with superposition of cabbage, bean sprouts, pork, egg and noodles, which is soba or udon, on thin flour dough spread like crepe. Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is quite different to the Okonomiyaki (Japanese Savoury Pancake) that I posted some time ago, but equally delicious. It is a layered savoury pancake.

Instructions to make Hiroshima Okonomiyaki:
  1. Mix mirin and water in measuring cup.
  2. Add to flour and mix with a whisk until smooth in small bowl. Refrigerate at least an hour, no longer.
  3. In the meantime, thinly slice cabbage and put aside. Slice green onions and put aside.
  4. Heat large nonstick pan (use nonstick griddle or electric frying pan if you have one).
  5. Take out flour mixture from refrigerator and stir. Using ladle, scoop out about 1/2 c. and pour into heated pan swirling around into a circle like a pancake. No need to make it thick. It will “fluff” up otherwise it will be too thick.
  6. Pile up 1/2 of each - cabbage, bean sprouts, and green onions. It will cook down. Don’t press down.
  7. Place 1/2 lb. pork belly slices across the pile.
  8. Smear about 1 tbsp. on top. With 2 large spatulas, flip it over and let it cook. Need pork belly to cook. No smashing down.
  9. Meanwhile, using a frying pan (or side of the griddle) put in 1-1/2 pkg. yakisoba separating it. Put oil on it and help oil distribute through the noodles.
  10. Add 1 tbsp. Okonomiyaki sauce to the noodles and stir it in. Let noodles cook until slightly browned and flip over.
  11. Go back to the pancake and transfer it over on the fried noodles.
  12. Where the space you were cooking the pancake, break one egg and fry it breaking the yolk and mix around.
  13. Don’t overcook the egg.
  14. Carefully transfer the pancake onto the egg. Let cook for 1 minute.
  15. Using 2 spatulas, flip the entire pancake onto a plate
  16. Using Okonomiyaki sauce and Kewpie mayonnaise, squirt it in zig zag fashion separately.
  17. Serve hot. Then make second pancake.

Hiroshima Okonomiyaki is quite different to the Okonomiyaki (Japanese Savoury Pancake) that I posted some time ago, but equally delicious. It is a layered savoury pancake. Each ingredient is placed on top of the pancake in a particular order, making a very thick okonomiyaki. You will need either a flat rectangle griddle pan over stove/BBQ, electric flat griddle or two frypans on the stove top. Hiroshima Okonomiyaki. featured in How To Make Homemade Japanese Food.

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