Fluffy Light Okonomiyaki. Lay the pork belly strips first, and cook the okonomiyaki with the fat that renders. Make the pancake as thick as possible, and don't spread it out. Once you pour the batter on the griddle, put the other ingredients on top.

We have tried a lot of restaurants from Osaka to Kyoto to Tokyo. We love soft okonomiyaki and this is our ideal texture. While my husband was cooking, I measured all the ingredients and took photos. You can have Fluffy Light Okonomiyaki using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Fluffy Light Okonomiyaki

It's 200 grams of Okonomiyaki flour.
It's 1 block of Silken tofu.
It's 200 grams of Yamaimo yam.
It's 300 ml of Water.
It's 1 tbsp of Mentsuyu (optional).
It's 4 of Eggs.
It's 8 slice of Thinly sliced pork belly (sliced for okonomiyaki).
You need 1/2 large of Cabbage.
Prepare 1 of Green onions or scallions.
It's 1 of Tenkasu (tempura batter crumbs, optional).
It's 1 of Dried shrimp (optional).
It's 1 of Other - shrimp, squid, scallops, oysters, etc..
Prepare 1 of Okonomiyaki sauce (a sweet one).
You need 1 of Mayonnaise, aonori, bonito flakes.

This recipe is a result of our. Great recipe for A Kansai Native's Light and Fluffy Okonomiyaki. This is a recipe that was improved using the know-how I picked up when I worked at an okonomiyaki restaurant. This amount always yields fluffy okonomiyaki pancakes.

Fluffy Light Okonomiyaki step by step

Chop the cabbage finely. Slice the green onion thinly. Cut up all the other filler ingredients such as the pork into easy to eat pieces..
Add the tofu to the flour without draining. Add water little by little, add the mentsuyu sauce, and then add the grated yamaimo yam. Mix to make the batter..
Prepare the other ingredients for 1 portion. Combine the cabbage, egg, green onion, tenkasu, and dried shrimps. Add 1 ladle plus of the batter, and mix together..
Heat an electric griddle. Lay the pork belly strips first, and cook the okonomiyaki with the fat that renders. Make the pancake as thick as possible, and don't spread it out..
Once you pour the batter on the griddle, put the other ingredients on top. Flip the pancake over when it's done on one side. Don't press down!.
Don't ever press down on it! When the center gets fluffy and the added ingredients are cooked through, flip the pancake over one more time. Don't press down!!!.
Stick the edge of the spatula into the pancake in several places. If it comes out clean, the okonomiyaki is done..
To decorate the top of the okonomiyaki with sauce: Cover the top with lots of okonomiyaki sauce..
Draw stripes on top with mayonnaise..
Make stripes perpendicular to the mayonnaise stripes with a thin object, like a chopstick. First from top to bottom....
..and the next stripe from bottom to top. Repeat these two strips, Up, down, down, up....
Done!.

The key to a soft, airy fluffy okonomiyaki is to mix up the batter and vegetable while incorporating air just before cooking. Pour the batter onto the electric griddle. When it's cooked through, raise the heat to medium and continue cooking until the surface is browned to your liking. Cover with okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise, bonito flakes, and aonori seaweed, and it's done! Repeat with the rest of the batter and additions.