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Okonomiyaki With Pea Sprouts and a Little Spicy Ground Pork - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Okonomiyaki With Pea Sprouts and a Little Spicy Ground Pork.
We cooked the okonomiyaki with lots of crispy pea sprouts and cabbage and added the ground pork seasoned with sweet and a little spicy sauce. Yamato-imo is a kind of Japanese yam that is stickier than Nagaimo (yam), and in some regions, it is also called icho-imo or tsukune-imo. The sweet and a little spicy ground pork is mixed well into the batter that is full of vegetables and brings an accent to the taste.
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Cook time

20 minutes

Ingredients
1 serving

  • Flavored Chicken Flakes (Soboro)
  • Ground pork
    100 g
  • (A)Cooking sake
    1 tbsp
  • (A)Gochujang
    1 tbsp
  • (A)Japanese sweet cooking wine (Mirin)
    1 tsp
  • (A)Soy sauce
    1 tsp
  • (A)Grated garlic
    1 tsp
  • Sesame oil
    1 tsp
  • Pea sprouts
    1/2 package(s)
  • Cabbage
    100 g
  • Batter
  • Cake flour (Pastry flour)
    40 g
  • Water
    20 ml
  • Tempura bits
    20 g
  • Japanese yam (Yamato-imo)
    20 g
  • Eggs
    1
  • Japanese versatile dashi base (Shiro-dashi)
    1 tbsp
  • Sesame oil
    1 tsp
  • Japanese Mayonnaise
    2 tbsp
  • Chili threads
    as needed

How to make

  1. 1. Cut off the base of pea sprouts and cut them into 0.8-inch width pieces.
  2. 2. Thinly slice the cabbage.
  3. 3. Heat sesame oil in a pan over medium heat, add ground pork, and cook until the color changes.
  4. 4. Add ingredient (A) and cook until the liquid evaporates, then transfer to a tray and let it cool.
  5. 5. Grate the Japanese yam (yamato-imo).
  6. 6. Mix the batter ingredients in a bowl, add Step 1, 2, and 4, and mix until everything is blended.
  7. 7. Heat a pan over medium heat, add sesame oil, and spread Step 6 onto a pan in a circle.
  8. 8. Once browned, turn it over, cover it with a lid, and cook over low heat for about 5 minutes until heated through, then remove from the heat.
  9. 9. Transfer to a plate, top it with Japanese mayonnaise and chili threads, and it's ready to serve.

Tips for cooking

The texture is slightly different, but you can substitute it with other Japanese yam. The flavor and the intensity of a Japanese versatile dashi base (shiro-dashi) differ depending on the type, so please use the amount on the package as a guide and adjust to your preference.

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