Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki is a mixture between pancake and pizza. "Okonomi" means "as you like". This refers to the ingredients.

Ingredients:

• Dough
• 300 g flour
• 210 ml water
• 2 eggs
• Cabbage
• Possible ingredients to put into/onto Okonomiyaki
• Katsuobushi: Dried, shaved benito (katsuo)
• Aonori: Green, dried seaweed.
• Leek or green onion
• Beef: thinly sliced or ground
• Pork: thinly sliced or ground
• Chicken: breast filets
• Octopus
• Squid
• Prawn
• Tuna
• Mushrooms
• and much more...
• Sauces
• Brown okonomiyaki sauce
• Mayonnaise

Preparation:

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  Cut four large, green cabbage leaves without the hard, white core in thin strings (ca. 4 mm).
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  Mix the water, flour, eggs and the cabbage strings together.
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  You may now add more ingredients to the dough: e.g. seafood, cut in little pieces, ground meat, cut mushrooms, etc.
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  Fry the dough like a pancake in a small frying pan.
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  Before turning the okonomiyaki over, and while the dough is still quite soft, you may put other ingredients on top of the dough.
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  Turn the okonomiyaki.
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  When fried well, serve the okonomiyaki with katsuobushi, aonori, mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce.