Recipe: Perfect Hiroshima Okonomiyaki

Hiroshima Okonomiyaki. Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake with cabbage, bean sprout, noodles, sliced pork belly and a fried egg, topped with savory sauce and Japanese mayo. Watch the video tutorial for step-by-step instructions! Have you tried the Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) before?

It includes plenty of cabbage, bean sprouts and pork slices along with some unique ingredients. Unlike the more mainstream version of okonomiyaki, where the batter is mixed with the cabbage and other ingredients, each ingredient in Hiroshima okonomiyaki is stacked on top of each other and covered with a layer of yakisoba noodles, egg, tasty sauces, and toppings. Enjoy this recipe as a main meal. You can cook Hiroshima Okonomiyaki using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hiroshima Okonomiyaki

1. Prepare 1 c. of Flour or Okonomiyaki flour.
2. Prepare 1 t. of Mirin.
3. Prepare 2/3 c. of Cold water.
4. It's 1 of small head of cabbage, rinsed.
5. It's 2 c. of Bean sprouts, rinsed and drained.
6. Prepare 2 bunches of green onions, thinly and diagonally sluced.
7. You need 1 lb. of pork belly, thinly sliced.
8. Prepare 2 of eggs.
9. Prepare of Okonomiyaki sauce.
10. Prepare of Kewpie mayonnaise.
11. You need 1 pkg. of yakisoba (3/pkg).
12. Prepare of Oil.

Hiroshima Okonomiyaki consists of shredded cabbage, tempura crisps, scallions, bean sprouts, pork, yakisoba noodle, fried egg, okonomiyaki sauce and seaweed flake. Tempura crisps are a byproduct of Tempura. Useful Tools and Kitchen gadgets Slice the cabbage on a mandoline and spread out on a parchment-lined sheet pan. Slice the carrots on a mandoline and spread out on a parchment-lined sheet pan.

Hiroshima Okonomiyaki instructions

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..

Combine the flour, water, and mirin in a bowl and whisk until combined. Place cabbage, tempura, bean sprouts, and scallions on top of the batter to fully cover it. Okonomiyaki is the famous Hiroshima-style food like Western Pizza which consist of cabbage, eggs, bacon, seafood, buckwheat noodles and wheat noodles topped (different from region to region) with sauces, mayonnaise, dried seaweed and dried bonito flakes. Hiroshima okonomiyaki includes vegetables, egg, meat, and is commonly served with a layer of noodles as well. The noodle choices are soba, which refers to yakisoba or chuka style noodles, but not to be mistaken with buckwheat soba noodles which are not used in this dish.