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Want some Japenese taste? I'd like to share Okonomiyaki, a japanese recipe that I truly love.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Okonomiyaki ( Okonomiyaki?) is a Japanese dish consisting of a pan-fried batter cake and various ingredients. Okonomi means "what you like" or "what you want", and yaki means "grilled" or "cooked" (cf. yakitori and yakisoba); thus, the name of this dish means "cook what you like". In Japan, okonomiyaki is mainly associated with Kansai or Hiroshima areas, but is widely available throughout the country. Toppings and batters tend to vary according to region.

Ingredients:
1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup water
1 egg
salt to taste
1 mounded cereal bowl of cabbage
add green onion, cheese, etc.
meat (thinly sliced pork or beef, squid, shrimp)

OR FOR DETAILED INGREDIENTS HERE IS IT:
Base:
1 cup flour
3/4 cup dashi (or water, see below)*
1 egg
1/8-1/4 of a cabbage

Toppings - any of the below:
Chicken
Roast pork or beef
Squid, Octopus, other seafood
Corn
Mushrooms
Onion

Garnishing - any of the below, if you can find it and actually want it:
Katsuo-bushi (dried bonito flakes)
Sakura-ebi (dried shrimps)
Beni-shoga (red ginger)
Ao-nori (green seaweed)

Sauces:
Okonomiyaki sauce (or tonkatsu sauce)
Mayonnaise

For sure it's hard to find okonomiyaki sauce in the market especially here in Poland so you can make your own okonomiyaki sauce which is:
3 tbsp ketchup
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce

Directions:
Combine flour, water, and egg and possibly salt in a bowl. Mix in cabbage and onions. Combine throughly. Split mixture in half (or you'll have a hell of a time flipping if you're not used to it) and place one half into a buttered pan. Form into a disc. Fry until bottom is golden brown.
You can either add your meat to the top of your okonomiyaki and then flip it, or place it on the pan before you pour in your batter.
Flip, fry until other side is golden brown, and serve with mayo, shredded nori, katsuobushi, and okonomiyaki sauce

Here's the detailed one: my own style of making it..

Step 1:
So firstly grab that cabbage and chop it up finely. Better to have too much than too little because it shrinks a little as it cooks, and it's mega cheap anyway. Get out as much of the white stem parts as you can.



Step 2:
Now break an egg into a large bowl and pour in the dashi/water, and the flour.



Step 3:
Then beat with a whisk until smooth.

Step 4:
Now add some of the finely chopped cabbage and mix as best you can. It should end up looking like this.



Step 5:
Heat up your skillet, electric frypan, grill, whatever you're going to use to cook for it. Preferably use something that's got teflon on it :-)

Step 6:
Now prepare your toppings. I'm using pork BBQ slices, a little bell pepper, some onion, mushrooms, parsely and spring onion. Just chop it all up good.

Step 7:
Throw it all in the frypan with some oil (sesame is good) to keep it all well-lubed. Cook until either heated through or in the case of raw meat or veges, for a few minutes until it's getting close to being cooked.



Step 8:
Arrange the nearly cooked toppings in a round...



Step 9:
Then throw the cabbage/dough mixture on top, also in a round!

Step 10:
Turn up the heat a little to medium and let it cook through for 5 minutes or so. Then flip it. In the picture below, I had to cut the round in half to flip it, which doesn't matter because we'll be cutting it into pieces later anyway. You could always make two okonomiyaki instead!

Let it cook for another 5-10 minutes. You can break away a bit of the dough bit when it doesn't look raw any more and see if the cabbage and dough is cooked through.



Step 11:
Flip it out onto a plate and cover liberally with Okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise! OH GOD MY TASTEBUDS!



Step 12:
Cut, serve and savour! Enjoy!

SMACZNEGO! ( Enjoy your meal or Bon appetit in Polish)