Japan
Photo: ume-y, CC BY 2.0, croppedOkonomiyaki
お好み焼き
/okonomʲijakʲi/oh-koh-noh-mee-YAH-kee
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- Taste
- Savory
- Made with
- Wheat & flourVegetablesEggPork
History
The name means "grilled as you like it", and that is the whole idea: a batter of wheat flour and shredded cabbage cooked on a hot iron plate with whatever the cook has, then brushed with a thick sweet-savoury sauce, mayonnaise, seaweed flakes and bonito. Thin flour pancakes sold to children before the war were its ancestor. It became a staple in the hungry years after 1945, when flour was easier to find than rice. Two cities claim it. Osaka mixes everything into the batter; Hiroshima builds it in layers with a crepe, a mound of cabbage and a bed of fried noodles.
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