Thermomix Okonomiyaki

Ingredients (Makes about 10 x 15cm pancakes)

• Ingredients A (Pancakes):
  • 110g Tasty Cheese, in 2 or 3 pieces
  • 1/4 Small Cabbage, white or green, roughly chopped
  • 1 Carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 3 Stalks Celery, roughly chopped
  • 3 Spring Onion, sliced into 1cm rings
  • 300g Flour, or  Okonomiyaki Flour
  • 1 Egg
  • 30g Brown Sugar
  • 5g Salt
  • 300g Milk
  • Vegetable Oil, for frying
  • Kewpie Mayonnaise, to serve

  Ingredient B (Okonomiyaki Sauce):

  • 2 Cloves Garlic
  • 10g Ginger
  • 60g Tomato Ketchup
  • 30g Tamari
  • 10g Mirin
  • 20g Rice Vinegar
  • 15g Sugar
  • 1 tsp Mustard

Directions

1. For Okonomiyaki Pancakes, place the tasty cheese in mixing bowl and grate for 5s/ Speed 9.
2. Add cabbage, carrot, and celery and chop for 5s/ Speed 5.
3. Add the spring onion, flour, egg, brown sugar, salt and milk, and combine on Reverse/ Speed 4.
4. After about 10 seconds, slowly add about 100g of water until stiff batter forms.
5. Heat the vegetable oil over medium heat in a large fry pan.
6. It’s hot enough when a drop of batter sizzles. Ladle the batter to make pancakes.
7. Cook for 3 minutes each side or until golden brown. While pancakes are cooking, make the sauce.
8. For the Okonomiyaki Sauce, place garlic and ginger into mixing bowl and chop for 4s/ Speed 7.
9. Add all the other ingredients, plus 1/2 Measuring Cup (MC) water and cook for 10 mins/ 100°C/ speed 1/ MC off, with simmering basket resting on the TM lid, or until the sauce is reduced to a glossy pouring consistency.
10. Strain the sauce into a dish for spooning onto the okonomiyaki pancakes.

Tip: Bite-size okonomiyaki makes great canapes, and can be frozen for lunchboxes.

Recipe adapted from In the Mix by Dani Valent

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