Saturday, May 09, 2009

English version of Daiso Okonomiyaki recipe for the microwave oven

Finally finished doing a decent-enough translation of the recipe I got
with the Daiso okonomiyaki microwave oven cookware I got. You'll have to
convert the metric measurements yourself.

1. 40 grams flour (wheat or whatever)

2. 50 cc dashi (fine powder dissolved dashi is OK)

3. Yamato Imo aka Japanese yam (potato) - a small amount
(Not sure what to tell you on that. I don't like yams, but I would
think you would peel and grate like a tablespoon of a yam if you like.)

4. 100 grams cabbage (cut small / shredded)

5. 1 Egg

6. tenkasu - as desired

I had to look up tenkasu. It's bits of crunchy deep fried flour dough.
The best way to describe it is the crumbs made when deep frying
batter-dipped fish at you-know-where, but failing having that on hand,
crispy rice cereal works as a good substitute! Or maybe any kind of
crispy unsweetened cereal that holds up. It's easy enough to make
anyway.

7. Red Ginger - as desired

8. Sliced Pork - as desired

Toppings - Aonori, bonito flakes, mayonaise, okonomiyaki sauce

1. Mix the first 3 ingredients together in a bowl. Fold in 4-7 and mix
well.

2. Arrange the meat nicely in the center of the bottom lid.

3. Pour batter over the meat, covering it completely.

4. Lock the upper lid on securely.

5. Cook in the microwave. Use these times as a guide in case your
microwave has a different power level, in which case your cooking time
will vary.

6 minutes in a 600 watt oven, or 6:30 in a 500 watt oven.

Remove when done, but flip the cookware over and put it back in the
oven. There'll be hot steam leaking out through gaps in the lid and will
turn into hot water droplets. Be careful not to burn yourself!

6. When ready, remove the upper lid. Top as you like in this order:
Mayonaise, Okonomiyaki sauce, and then with the aonori and bonito
flakes.

You can serve it on a plate or in the dish you cooked it in. I would say
be careful not to scratch the plastic as you cut and eat the okonomiyaki
if you do it that way.

And that's it. Daiso sells the okonomiyaki cookware on their website
from one of their California stores in packs of 5 for about $8 with
another $9 for UPS shipping, and is just the kind of thing you need when
you can't use an electric hot plate.

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