Best Japanese Okonomiyaki Recipes

OKONOMIYAKI (JAPANESE PANCAKE)

Steps:

• Mix flour and water together in a bowl until smooth. Stir in cabbage, bacon, eggs, sausage, green onions, shrimp, cheese, and tenkasu.
• Preheat a griddle to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C); coat with oil. Pour in flour mixture in the shape of a pancake. Cook until golden brown, about 6 minutes per side. Transfer to a serving plate.
• Mix soy sauce, ketchup, and vinegar together in a small bowl to make okonomiyaki sauce. Drizzle over pancake. Garnish with panko and mayonnaise.

CLASSIC OKONOMIYAKI (JAPANESE CABBAGE AND PORK PANCAKES)

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine hondashi with 1 cup water and whisk until dissolved. Whisk in eggs until well combined. Add flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and whisk until smooth. Fold in cabbage, scallions and ginger until well incorporated.
• In an 8-inch nonstick skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil. Add half the batter, spreading cabbage mixture into an even 6-inch round about 1-inch thick (resist the urge to push down on the mixture). Arrange half the pork belly over the cabbage, slightly overlapping. Cook over medium-low until pancake is set and golden brown underneath, 8 to 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low and carefully flip pancake by inverting onto a plate then slipping back into the skillet.
• Cook until golden brown on second side, pancake is cooked through in center and pork is lightly golden, about 8 minutes. Transfer pancake, pork side up, onto a large plate. Wipe out skillet and repeat with remaining oil, batter and pork belly.
• Drizzle pancakes with okonomi sauce and Kewpie mayonnaise, then top with a handful of shaved bonito and nori. Serve warm.

JAPANESE OKONOMIYAKI

Steps:

• Combine the flour, baking powder, egg and stock. Mix until smooth, whisking out any lumps without overmixing. Add the potato, season with a little salt and white pepper, cover and rest for at least 2 hrs.
• While the mix is resting, combine the ingredients for the sauce, stirring until it's smooth. Set aside.
• Remove the batter from the fridge and add the cabbage, spring onion, ginger, soy, mirin and chosen seafood. Stir to thoroughly coat the mix in the batter.
• Heat a thin layer of oil in a frying pan on a medium heat. Pour the mixture into the pan, keeping it as circular as possible. Fry for 3-5 mins. Use a palette knife to help you flip it over and cook for a further 3-5 mins, using a lid at intervals to trap the heat so it cooks through. Test to see if it's ready by sticking a chopstick into the middle. If it comes out dry, it's ready.
• Flip onto a board and serve with the sauce and garnishes to taste. Eat straight away.

JAPANESE VEGETABLE PANCAKES (OKONOMIYAKI)

Steps:

• While oil is heating over medium high heat, make vegetable mixture. In a large mixing bowl, mix all the vegetables, eggs, flour, soy sauce, bonito and dashi.
• When oil is hot drop vegetable mixture into pan flatening it into a small pancake shape. This needs to be no thicker than 1/3 of an inch so that it has time to cook through. Fit as many as you can in your pan without overcrowding or dropping the temperature too much. Once browned on one side, flip and brown the other side. Remove to drain on a paper towel.
• For the sauce, mix the mayo, ketchup and worcestershire sauce together and then drizzle over the hot pancakes. Top with the dried seaweed and serve.

EASY JAPANESE OKONOMIYAKI

Steps:

• Mix flour, dashi, egg, zucchini, cabbage, carrot, and 1 green onion in a large bowl for the batter.
• Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Pour in batter. Top with bacon slices. Cook until golden brown, 5 to 15 minutes per side. Top with okonomiyaki, mayonnaise, and remaining green onion.

OKONOMIYAKI - JAPANESE PIZZA

Steps:

• Toast the nori by waving it over a flame until it stiffens slightly, but be careful--it burns easily. Crumble into little pieces and set aside.
• Combine all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan and simmer for 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
• Remove from the heat and cool to room temperature.
• Beat the eggs in a large bowl.
• Add the flour and water and continue beating until you have a batter the consistency of pancake batter.
• Add the sake and salt.
• Fold in the cabbage, carrots, and scallions. Be sure to mix the batter and vegetables together evenly. Each okonomiyaki will use 1/4 of this mixture.
• Heat 1 tbsp. of the oil in a standard 10-inch skillet. Spoon 1/4 of the batter onto the hot skillet (like a pancake) making sure the vegetables are evenly distributed.
• Then sprinkle 1/4 of the shrimp or meat of you choice on top.
• Cook each side on medium heat for 2 minutes, until lightly browned. Reduce the heat to low and cook, covered, for another 5 minutes, occasionally turning and gently pressing the okonomiyaki with a spatula.
• Prepare three more okonomiyaki as above. Keep the finished pancakes warm in a low oven while making the rest, or use two skillets and make two okonomiyaki at a time.
• Serve hot with the sauce to taste--I recommend 1 tbsp. per okonomiyaki-- and top with about a tsp. of mayonnaise and a sprinkling of toasted nori.

JAPANESE OKONOMIYAKI

Steps:

• Fry the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until slightly crispy. Remove to paper towels to drain and set aside.
• In a large bowl, stir together the water and eggs. Gradually stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Add the cabbage and ginger; stir until evenly distributed.
• Heat a skillet over medium heat and coat with cooking spray. Pour about 1/4 of the batter into the center of the skillet. Place 4 slices of cooked bacon in the center. Use a spatula to shape the pancake into a circle. Fry for about 5 minutes or until the edges are dry. Flip and cook on the other side until the center is stable and it is browned on both sides. Remove from the pan and drizzle with tonkatsu sauce to serve. Continue with remaining batter and bacon.

OKONOMIYAKI (JAPANESE PIZZA)

Steps:

• Mix together Flour, Water, and Mashed Potatoes and then lastly add the Cabbage. (I know people don't usually have mashed potatoes hanging about but if you don't have time to make them before hand, try another egg replacer to see what happens?).
• Heat a skillet on medium, adding a little bit of oil. Cut up the Sandwich "Meat" and/or mushrooms and fry them slightly ( if you fry the veggie ham for too long they will become too crunchy). Right over the ham/mushroom pieces, pour in one third of the mix and spread it around in the frying pan so that it becomes a "pancake" shape (Conversely, you can mix the "ham" into the mix above and skip this step).
• Cook for 5 mins (I usually cover it with a pan lid).
• Flip. Cook for 5 more minutes.
• Repeat steps 2 to 4 for the last two pancakes.
• Mix together equal parts of mayonnaise and BBQ sauce for the sauce to spread on the "pizza".
• If you're vegan, you're on your own for finding/making vegan mayo and bbq sauce, but I know it's doable!
• Note for Eggless option you MUST use Vegan mayo. Mayo has eggs unless stated as Vegan.

OKONOMIYAKI (A.K.A: JAPANESE PIZZA)

Steps:

• 1. Mix water and flour and stir well. 2. Beat eggs, add to flour and stir until lumps are gone and batter is smooth. 3. Mix in the rest of your ingredients. 4. Mix in cabbage at at the end. 5. Heat vegetable oil in skillet The amount of shredded cabbage may seem to be too much, but once it is mixed in well, the cabbage will be coated with the batter and will settle into the mix. 6. Pour a portion of batter onto the oiled and heated frying pan 7. Smooth the batter down to form a pancake. 8. Fry over medium heat. When the edges start changing color, it is ready to flip. The process is like making a pancake. The other side should be golden in color. Note: Try experimenting with different meats, cheeses, vegetables and spice combinations and make it your own.

OKONOMIYAKI (VEGETABLE JAPANESE GRIDDLE CAKE)

Steps:

• Mix flour with water in medium size bowl.
• Stir eggs and vegetable ingredients in the batter.
• Heat oil on a griddle, a hot plate, or in a large skillet.
• Pour enough batter to make a single serving griddle cake (about 6" across and 1/2" thick.) Repeat for three more servings as room allows.
• Cook both sides on medium-low heat until golden brown (about 5 minutes each.).
• Move each griddle cake to a serving plate and immediately spread 1/4 cup of Okonomi sauce over the top of each one.
• Top the griddle cakes with the remaining ingredients evenly.

OKONOMIYAKI (JAPANESE SAVORY CABBAGE PANCAKE)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Toss cabbage with flour in large bowl.
• Whisk eggs with bouillon powder and 2 Tbsp. water until blended. Add to cabbage mixture; mix lightly.
• Drop cabbage mixture into 20 mounds, 1/2 inch apart, on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray, using about 2 Tbsp. cabbage mixture for each mound.
• Bake 10 min. or until centers of pancakes are set.
• Meanwhile, mix ketchup, dressing, oyster sauce, sugar and remaining water in small saucepan until blended. Bring to boil on medium heat, stirring constantly; simmer on medium-low heat 10 min. or until sauce is slightly thickened, stirring frequently.
• Spoon sauce evenly onto centers of pancakes, adding about 1 tsp. sauce to each pancake. Top with mayo and bacon.

JAPANESE OKONOMIYAKI

Steps:

• Fry the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until slightly crispy. Remove to paper towels to drain and set aside. In a large bowl, stir together the water and eggs. Gradually stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Add the cabbage and ginger; stir until evenly distributed. Heat a skillet over medium heat and coat with cooking spray. Pour about 1/4 of the batter into the center of the skillet. Place 4 slices of cooked bacon in the center. Use a spatula to shape the pancake into a circle. Fry for about 5 minutes or until the edges are dry. Flip and cook on the other side until the center is stable and it is browned on both sides. Remove from the pan and drizzle with tonkatsu sauce to serve.You may also drizzle with mayo if desired. Continue with remaining batter and bacon.