Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we are diving back into our series dedicated to classic Japanese dishes with a shot at a Japanese savory pancake known as okonomiyaki. Though you will find that savory pancakes appear all throughout pan-Asian cuisine (such as the Korean kimchi pancake or the Taiwanese scallion pancake), okonomiyaki stands apart because of its inclusion of a dried and smoked tuna fish shaving known as "katsuobushi," or bonito flake. This as you might imagine, gives the dish a smokey and fishy umami forward quality that is very much in line with...pretty much all of the Japanese cuisine that you've probably come across.
Unlike many of its contemporaries though, our pancake will be assembled into a batter (rather than a dough ball), making use of the tuber known as nagaimo, or sometimes mountain yam or Chinese yam, to yield a slimy and sticky texture which is absolutely unlike any other yam that I personally have ever come across. These yams are...weird y'all. In addition to this, the okonomiyaki is also iconically fried on top of a bed of pork belly or bacon strips to give the dish that classic "cooked-in-bacon-fat" feel that we all want in a pancake. Hope you try it.
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0:00 Hello Hi Everyone!
1:35 Mise En Place (veggies)
2:21 Mise En Place (mountain yam)
2:50 Mise En Place (batter)
3:42 Mise En Place (sauce)
4:17 On The Stove (fry)
4:56 On The Stove (garnish)
5:18 Let's Eat!
6:24 Thanks For Watching!