Teenage Date-Night Okonomiyaki Savoury Prawn Pancake

Name: Teenage Date-Night Okonomiyaki Savoury Prawn Pancake
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves — 2 sharing
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: ½ mild long red chilli; 1 bunch fresh coriander leaves to serve; 1 handful bonito flakes to serve; 2 eggs; 125 ml (4 fl oz) water; 90 g (3¼ oz) Japanese pancake flour (okonomiyaki flour); olive oil for cooking; Kewpie mayonnaise to serve; tonkatsu sauce to serve; 1 bunch fresh Vietnamese mint leaves to serve; 4 cooked prawn tails, cut into bite-size chunks; ½ cup finely sliced white cabbage, soaked in iced water; ½ cup sliced spring onion

Preparation info

Serves —
2
sharing

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Masu

By Nic Watt

Published 2016

About

Instant Japanese food at its best! In Japan, okonomiyaki cafés are filled with teenagers out on dates. In these cafés the tables have a hot-plate in the centre where you cook and eat your pancake together.

Ingredients

2 eggs
125 ml (4 fl oz) water
90

Asia
Japan
Main course
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Begin by whisking the eggs and water into the pancake flour to form a smooth batter.

Add the prawns to the batter with half of the sliced cabbage and the spring onion. Stir through the batter to evenly disperse the ingredients.

Heat a small frying pan over a medium heat, and add a dash of olive oil. Ladle in two even pancakes of the batter. Cook until the batter rises and you ge