Fae's Food Corner - Page Two
Fae's Food Corner
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Index:
I. Okonomiyaki(Osaka Style)
II. Okonomiyaki(Hiroshima Style)
III. Gyudon
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I. Okonomiyaki(Osaka Style)
Information:
Okonomiyaki is a popular pan fried food.
It is basically a sort of pancake pizza.
The first recipe-style is a popular one from Osaka.
Ingredients:
2 cup all purpose flour
1 1/4 cup
dashi soup stock or water
4-6 eggs
1 - 1 1/4 lb cabbage
6 tbsps chopped green onion
2/3 cup
tenkasu (
tempura flakes)
12 - 18 strips of thinly sliced pork or beef
For toppings:
Aonori (green/blue seaweed)
Okonomiyaki sauce (or
tonkatsu sauce)
Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Put dashi soup stock in a bowl.
Mix the flour in the soup stock.
Rest the batter for an hour in the refrigerator.
Now for the big part!
1. Chop cabbage finely.
2. Take about 1/2 cup of the batter (to make one sheet of okonimiyaki) in another bowl.
3. Mix chopped cabbage (about 1/4 lb), chopped green onion (about 1 tbsp), and tempura flakes (about 2 tbsps) in the batter.
4. Make a hole in the middle of the batter and add an egg in the hole.
5. Stir the batter.
6. Heat an electric pan and oil slightly.
7. Pour the batter over the pan and make a round.
8. Fry meat or your choice of toppings on the side.
9. Cook 5-7 minutes and place meat (toppings) on top of the okonomiyaki.
10. Flip the okonomiyaki and cook for 5-7 more minutes.
11. Flip the okonomiyaki again and spread okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise on top.
12. Sprinkle aonori over the sauce.
13. Sprinkle katsuobushi (bonito flakes) and beni-shoga (red ginger) if you would like.
Makes 4-6 sheets.
Enjoy!
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II. Okonomiyaki(Hiroshima Style)
Okonomiyaki is as stated above a sort of pancake-pizza.
This recipe is a regional favourite from Hiroshima.
Ingredients:
1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup dashi soup or water
4 eggs
2 cups finely chopped cabbage
2 cups bean sprouts
12 pieces thinly sliced pork
4 packages pre-steamed chucka noodles for yakisoba
Seasonings:
yakisoba sauce or salt
okonomiyaki sauce or worcester sauce
mayonnaise
Toppings:
chopped green onion
aonori (dried seaweed powder made from green/blue seweed)
Preparation:
1. Mix flour and dashi soup stock to make okonomiyaki batter.
2. Heat and oil a large skillet or iron plate.
3. Spread a scoop of the batter into a thin round over the pan.
4. Place a handful of cabbage and bean sprouts on top of the batter.
5. Place pork slices on top of the vegetables.
6. Pour some okonomiyaki batter over the ingredients.
7. Flip the okonomiyaki over with spatulas.
8. Cook it on low heat until meats and vegetables are cooked.
9. Meanwhile, fry yakisoba noodles on the side and lightly season with okonomiyaki sauce or salt as you like.
10. Replace okonomiyaki with spatulas on top of yakisoba noodles and press on the top firmly.
11. Fry an egg on the side an break the egg york with spatula.
12. Replace the okonomiyaki on top of the fried egg and again press on the top firmly.
13. Spread okonomiyaki sauce or worcester sauce and mayonnaise on the okonomiyaki.
14. Sprinkle chopped green onion and ao-nori (dried seaweed powder) on the top.
Repeat this process to make more okonomiyaki.
Serving:
Serve the okonomiyaki on a plate with the egg side up.
Makes 4 servings
Enjoy your meal!
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III. Gyudon
Information:
Gyudon is basically rice with beef topping.
It is simple, cheap and fairly quick to make.
Estimated time for this meal: About 30min.
Ingredients:
4 cups of hot cooked rice
200g thinly sliced beef
1 onion
1 tbsp salad oil
2 tbsp white wine
Soup:
1 cup of
dashi jiru
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar,
1 tbsp mirin (sweet sake for seasoning)
Topping:
Benishoga (red ginger) as needed
Preparation:
1. Cut beef into bite-sized pieces and soak them in white wine for 10 minutes.
2. Slice onion thinly about 5mm width.
Cooking:
1. Put soy sauce, sugar and mirin in a pan, and boil up.
2. Add splice beef in the pan and boil for 2-3 minutes.
3. Add onion slices and dashi soup in the pan, and boil down for 5 minutes.
(Do not forget putting on the lid.)
4. Stir and boil another 5 minutes.
Serving:
1. Serve cooked rice in a deep rice bowl and put the beef topping on the top of rice.
2. If you would like, place benishoga (red ginger) on the top.
Enjoy!
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That is all for now. Enjoy!