お好み焼き-OKONOMI-YAKI- Japanese style pancake

I assume that lots of people have ever heard 'お好み焼き：OKONOMI-YAKI', Japanese style pancakes.


'OKONOMI' means 'Your Favorite', so you can put anything you want in OKONOMI-YAKI (*'-')b


Popular toppings are:
    *Meat ― We usually use thin sliced meat and pork which is the most popular one.
    *Seafood ― Prawns, Squids are popular. 
    *Cabbage ― This is essential!  I usually chop it finely. 
    *Cheese ― This can be a good accent of the taste! Yum! (＾▽＾)/
    *Taro ― If you add them, the dough turns to soft and kinda fluffy.
    *Spring onions ― There is a similar and popular dish called 'ねぎ焼き：NEGI-YAKI', 
　　　　　　　　　　　      which uses  lots of spring onions instead of cabbage.  It's yum! 
                               So of course, spring onions go well with OKONOMI-YAKI!
    * Kim chi ― Kim chi goes well with pork.  So why not??


Since thin sliced meat is hard to get (and usually expensive!!) in Australia, I usually use mince instead of thin sliced meat.  
Mince is incredibly reasonable in Australia!!
Mince is ESSENTIAL to live in Australia!  Hahaha


We usually do not use seafood because darling does not like it...(￣▽￣;)!!
I LOVE prawns... but oh well.. can't be helped..


Our favorite toppings are Pork mince, cabbage and cheese.


For dough, I usually use this

I bought this at Asian grocery store in the city for $2.00 on sale.
This comes with three bags of mixing for OKONOMIYAKI dough and you don't need anything but only two eggs, 100g flour and 150ml water.


Of course, you can make dough by yourself.


Use one cup of flour, two table spoons of HONDASHI (Blog'Basic'), two eggs and a half cup of water.


Easy, isn't it?!


Plain flour is a bit heavy, so I usually mix plain flour and self raising flour. 
Then OKONOMI-YAKI turns to fluffy and yum!!

All right!  Let's Cook!!

Now, make the dough, throw the toppings as you like,mix and bake it!!

You can of course cook them on a pan, but ours is small so we cooked on BBQ ...ρ(･･､)

We had sausages as well this time. 

 Yum Yum!!

Tadaaan!!

Yum Yum OKONOMI-YAKI!!!

Pour sauce(OKONOMI-YAKI sauce is available at Asian Grocery.  YAKISOBA sauce, TONKATSU sauce are fine as well.) and mayonnaise on OKONOMI-YAKI.  If you have and if you like, add Bonito flakes on it. Yum!!

Now...

♪いただきま～す♪

(ITADAKIMASU: a greeting you say before you eat) 

This dish costs around $2.50 for 6 pieces OKONOMI-YAKI, which is enough for three adults.


Mmmm..  Yum Yum!!


♪ごちそうさまでした～♪
(GOCHISOU-SAMA-DESHITA: a greeting you say after you eat)




【NOTE】
If Japanese sauce I mentioned is not available, you can also use Worcester sauce.
In that case, you might be better to mix it with mayonnaise and use it as OKONOMI-YAKI sauce.
This is my family's style.
Make sure that you use Japanese mayonnaise not western ones!!
Japanese mayonnaise is always the BEST!!!




o(〃＾▽＾〃)o

Basic

I introduce basic essential condiments for Japanese food φ(￣ー￣ )

From Left to Right.

*SOY SAUCE-SYOUYU

   Nowadays, it can be safe to say that  soy sauce is available anywhere in the world!

   Any brand one should be fine but I recommend you to get at least some 

 JAPANESE  brand one, not CHINESE brand one o((＞ω＜o))

*COOKING SAKE-RYOURI SHU

   You can use white wine in place of SAKE.  

   They are usually available at Asian grocery shop.

*SWEET COOKING RICE WINE-MIRIN

  This is not necessary because you can use sugar if you don't have it.  

   Still, why not having one??

*BONITO STOCK―HON-DASHI

   This is ESSENTIAL!!

   My partner and I called this 'MAGIC POWDER' because once you use this, it turns to a      

   Japanese dish!! ((((((ﾉﾟ⊿ﾟ)ﾉ

*Mixed powder of salt, pepper and MSG―AJI-SHIO-  KOSYOU

   This is not necessary but it is useful if you have one.

   I bet every family in Japan has one at least.

Of course, when you cook, you may need other condiments as well like sugar, salt, pepper, MISO and stuff.

o(*^▽^*)o~♪

PS

Queensland is still under a sever condition.

I hope the Sun shows up and it dries water.

Introduction

I've been living in Melbourne Australia for more than two years.

I always think that food is EXPENSIVE w(￣▽￣;)w  

In fact, EVERYTHING is expensive here.

One major super market promotes themselves saying 

   

                             ♪ 'Feed your family for under $10'♪

Does it sound reasonable??

To me, NO, NOT AT ALL!!! ε＝(＞ε＜)

Plus this recipe is not $10/family but $10/family member!!! 

However, it is too soon to give up!!

My budget for food is only $5 for two people(my partner and me)/day!!! 

And it is possible!!  ヾ(＠＾▽＾＠)ﾉ

You can cook real home style yummy Japanese food for only $5 for two or three people!!

I'm not a good cook.

Actually, I did not cook at all before coming to Australia.

Still my partner says 'You're a good cook'

So the recipe I introduce here is EASY, REASONABLE and YUMMY!!

Plus, it usually does not take so long!!!

How good it is?!   

o(*^▽^*)o~♪

PS

I send my sympathy to people in Queensland and sincerely hope that people can get back the normal life as soon as possible.