Hiroshima

Hiroshima okonomiyaki

Name: Hiroshima okonomiyaki
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 6 tbsp maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1/2 cup water; Cabbage, very finely shredded; 1 cup bean sprouts moong sprouts (mung bean sprouts); 6 thin slices pork belly; 2 portions ramen or yakisoba noodles wheat noodles; 2 egg; 4 tsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 4 tbsp okonomi or tonkatsu sauce tonkatsu sauce; 4 tsp mayonnaise; 2 pinches bonito flakes; 1 tsp crumbled nori sheets; 2 stalks sliced spring onion (green onion, scallion); Pickled ginger, red pickled ginger, to serve

Osaka mixes everything in one batter. Hiroshima stacks it like a skyscraper with noodles in the basement.

45 minTime

29 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

998kcal

29 gprotein

9 gfibre

45minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)6 tbsp

Water½ cup

Cabbagevery finely shredded

Moong sprouts (mung bean sprouts)1 cup bean sprouts

Pork belly6 thin slices

Wheat noodles2 portions ramen or yakisoba noodles

Egg2

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)4 tsp

Tonkatsu sauce4 tbsp okonomi or tonkatsu sauce

Mayonnaise4 tsp

Bonito flakes2 pinches

Nori sheets1 tsp crumbled

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)2 stalks, sliced

Pickled gingerred pickled ginger, to serve

Method

7 steps

1Whisk the maida and water into a smooth thin batter and rest 10 minutes. Boil the noodles 2 minutes, drain and toss with 1 tsp oil.
2Heat a tawa on medium low and brush with oil. Pour half the batter and spread it into a 20 cm thin round with the back of a ladle.
3Pile half the cabbage high on the crepe, then half the bean sprouts, a pinch of bonito and 3 pork slices on top. Drizzle 1 tbsp batter over the pork.
4Cook 4 minutes, then flip the whole stack with two wide spatulas. Cook 6 more minutes without pressing hard.
5Beside the stack, fry half the noodles with 1 tbsp sauce for 2 minutes and shape into a round. Slide the cabbage stack onto the noodles.
6Crack an egg onto the tawa, break the yolk and spread it into a round. Slide the whole stack onto the egg, cook 1 minute and flip so the egg is on top.
7Brush with sauce, zigzag the mayonnaise, scatter nori, bonito and spring onion. Repeat for the second one.

Serve it like this

Slide onto a board, cut into wedges with the spatula, and eat straight from the board. Pickled ginger on the side.

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