Local name: お好み焼き
Osaka's shredded-cabbage pancake, pan-cooked then covered in sweet-savoury sauce, mayonnaise and nori, here without dried bonito.
Photo: ume-y, CC BY 2.0
Okonomi means “what you like” and yaki “grilled”: you put in whatever you want. In Osaka it is often cooked by the diners themselves on a hotplate in the middle of the table.
An estimate computed from the recipe quantities and the USDA food composition database. Real values vary with the products used.
No: in Osaka it often holds pork and is topped with dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi), which are fish. This version keeps the cabbage, egg and sauce, swaps the bonito for nori and pickled ginger, and uses an okonomi sauce without fish extract — check the label.
The batter was overmixed or the cabbage chopped too fine. Cut the cabbage into thin shreds, mix just to coat, and do not press the pancake in the pan: the air between the shreds is what keeps it tender.
Slide it onto a plate, cover with a second plate, turn the whole thing over and slide it back into the pan. Or use two wide spatulas at once.
Learn to make dashi without bonito, tell the forms of tofu apart, and build a Japanese vegetarian meal from small plates.
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