2 Jul 2010

Okonomiyaki

What is fast food in your place? Burgers? Chips? I will introduce some Japanese fast food called okonomiyaki today.

Okonomiyaki is very popular in Japan. There are two main types from Osaka and Hiroshima. Osaka okonomiyaki uses a thick flour with a lot of cabbage and another ingredients like pork. Hiroshima one has a thin flour but also a lot of noodles. However, recently you can find many different types of okonomyaki with cheese, mochi (rice cake), kimchi etc.

Today I will cook three types of simple okonomiyaki. They are normal, egg and kimchi. Of course you can put anything you like on the okonomiyaki. This could be meat, sea food, vegetables or spices... because 'customization' is the best thing about okonomiyaki!
Ingredients:
flour (3tbsps)
water (3tbsps)
dried soup stock
salt
cabbage
chinese chive
(kimchi)
(egg)

1- Cut the vegetables finely and mix the flour, water, salt and soup stock.

2- Mix 1 together. Heat some oil on a pan and fry the mix.

3- When the bottom side is cooked, flip around and fry it until it's all cooked.

For the kimchi okonomiyaki, please mix the finely cut kimchi with 1 (picture above). For the egg type, you can put an egg in the pan after the bottom side is cooked, then flip the okonomiyaki on it.

Itadakimasu.