Easy Okonomiyaki Recipe

Easy okonomiyaki

Name: Easy okonomiyaki
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 100g plain flour; 1 egg beaten; 125ml chicken stock made up and cooled; a 250g wedge hispi or sweetheart cabbage finely shredded; 100g raw king prawns chopped; a bunch spring onions white and green bits divided and shredded; for frying vegetable oil; 5 strips streaky bacon; drained and chopped to make 1 tbsp pickled ginger; sesame seeds; 6 tbsp tomato ketchup; 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp mirin; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; a good pinch garlic powder

Published: June 30, 2016 at 10:15 AM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 35 mins

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These trendy Japanese savoury pancakes are popping up everywhere and are a brilliant way to use summer cabbage. This is a super-simplified version.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

100g plain flour
1 egg

beaten
125ml chicken stock

made up and cooled
a 250g wedge hispi or sweetheart cabbage

finely shredded
100g raw king prawns

chopped
a bunch spring onions

white and green bits divided and shredded
for frying vegetable oil
5 strips streaky bacon
drained and chopped to make 1 tbsp pickled ginger
sesame seeds

SAUCE

6 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp caster sugar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
a good pinch garlic powder

Nutrition: per serving

kcal647
fat19.2g
saturates5.9g
carbs79.2g
sugars34g
fibre7.9g
protein35.4g
salt5.4g

Method

step 1

Mix all the sauce ingredients together. Put the plain flour in a large bowl. Whisk in the egg and the cooled chicken stock to make a batter. Season.
step 2

Stir in the cabbage, prawns and white spring onion bits. Heat a good coating of oil in a non-stick frying pan. Tip in the batter mix and press down with a spatula so it fills the pan.
step 3

Cook on a medium heat until the underside is golden and cooked through and it has set enough to turn. Slide it onto a plate, uncooked-side up, then add the strips of bacon to the top. Put the frying pan over the plate and use the plate to turn the pancake, uncooked-side down, back into the pan. Keep cooking, pressing down with a spatula until the inside is cooked and piping hot (you can test this with a metal skewer.)
step 4

Serve bacon-side up, drizzled with the sauce and sprinkled with ginger, sesame seeds and spring onion greens.

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