japanese-style pancakes

• u.s.
• metric

ingredients:

• 16 shrimps
• 4 ounces thinly sliced pork or beef
• 7 ounces cabbage
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour or cake flour
• 2/3 cup bonito soup stock or water
• 2 teaspoons oil
• suitable amount mayonnaise (optional)
• suitable amount bonito flakes (optional)

sauce:

• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 3 1/2 teaspoons honey

step 1:

Cut the cabbage into julienne slices. Slice the meat into thin slices. Hull shell, remove tail and devein the shrimps.

step 2:

Mix the flour and cold water or bonito soup stock.

step 3:

Add the cabbage, the shrimps, the meat 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 in. high. Bake on medium heat about 8 minutes. Don't push with a spatula because that will make the okonomiyaki hard.

step 5:

Turn with a spatula and bake the other side on medium heat about 8 minutes.

step 6:

To make the sauce, mix the ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and honey.

step 7:

Coat the pancake with the sauce.　If you like, spread mayonnaise and sprinkle bonito flakes on top. Remove from the pan.

step 8:

To make the second pancake, repeat Steps 4, 5 and 7.