This is the ultimate okonomiyaki recipe, arrived at after dozens of restaurant visits and trial-and-error, that will make you feel like you don't need to go to a restaurant anymore. With a focus on the golden ratio, how to mix the batter, and grilling technique, you can recreate a fluffy and undeniably delicious dish at home. Please give it a try.
Ingredients
Main Ingredients (2 servings)
- 200g Cabbage
- 2 slices Pork Belly
- 10g Japanese Yam
- 40g Tenkasu (tempura scraps)
- 2 Eggs
- 10g Pickled Ginger (beni shoga)
- 10g Chopped Green Onion
- 20g Tempura Flour
Seasonings
- 30cc Mentsuyu
- to taste Otafuku Sauce (Okonomiyaki Sauce)
- to taste Mayonnaise
- to taste Bonito Flakes
- to taste Aonori (seaweed flakes)
Steps
- First, thinly slice 200g of cabbage into coarse shreds.
- Place the sliced cabbage in a colander and rinse with water.
- In a bowl, combine 20g of tempura flour and 24cc of mentsuyu, mixing thoroughly until uniform. [This is the key!] It's good to make a generous amount of the batter mixture.
- Peel the skin thickly from 10g of Japanese yam and grate it.
- Thoroughly drain the water from the cabbage that was rinsed.
- In a large bowl, add 100g of the drained cabbage.
- Next, add 5g of pickled ginger and 5g of chopped green onion to the bowl.
- Precisely measure and add 5g of the grated Japanese yam to the bowl. [This is the key!] Precisely adhering to the amount of Japanese yam significantly impacts the final result.
- Measure and add 20g of the batter mixture you prepared to the bowl. [This is the key!] Accurately measuring the amount of batter mixture is crucial.
- Crack 1 egg into the bowl.
- Add 20g of tenkasu and mix all the ingredients together.
- While mixing the ingredients, heat a frying pan over medium heat and heat the oil to 170 degrees Celsius.
- Pour the mixed batter onto the heated frying pan, shaping it into a round form. At this stage, do not press down firmly from above.
- Place 1 slice of pork belly on top of the batter.
- Cover with a lid and grill at 170 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes.
- Once browned, flip it over, cover with a lid, and grill the other side at 170 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes.
- Flip it over one more time and generously drizzle with Otafuku Sauce (Okonomiyaki Sauce).
- Drizzle with mayonnaise, and sprinkle with an appropriate amount of bonito flakes and aonori.






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