japanese-style pancakes with green onion

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ingredients:

• 2 ounces green onion or scallion
• 2 tablespoons red pickled ginger
• (beni-shōga)
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour or cake flour
• 2/3 cup bonito soup stock or water
• 1 to 2 tablespoons soy sauce or sauce of Japanese-Style Pancakes
• 2 teaspoons oil
• suitable amount green laver (ao-nori)
• suitable amount dried small shrimps (hoshi-ebi) (optional)

step 1:

Chop the green onion into small pieces.

step 2:

Mix the flour and water (or bonito soup stock).

step 3:

Add the green onion, the red pickled ginger, dried small shrimps (optional) and eggs. Mix for only 1 minute because otherwise the batter will become too hard when cooked.

step 4:

Heat a medium-size frying pan on medium heat. Add the oil. Add half of the mixture (Step 3). Arrange in a circle about 1/3 in. high. Bake on medium heat about 5 minutes. Don't push with a spatula because that will make the negiyaki hard.

step 5:

Turn with a spatula and bake the other side on medium heat about 3 minutes.

step 6:

Coat the pancake with 1/2 to 1 tablespoon soy sauce or sauce of Japanese–Style Pancakes. Sprinkle green laver on top. Remove from the pan.

step 7:

To make the second pancake, repeat Steps 4, 5 and 6.