Okonomiyaki sauce

"Okonomi" in Japanese means "what you love", "yaki" - "everything that is fried on the fire". The name itself reflects the Japanese people's ardent love for cabbage pancakes okonomiyaki. The recipe is based on the pizza principle: everything that is currently in the refrigerator can become part of the pancakes. There are two traditional cooking options. The first is when a pancake made of thin tempura dough is baked separately, and then everything else is dumped on it (this is the Hiroshima and Tokyo style). The second is when chopped cabbage can be mixed into the dough, and the pancake turns out thick, like a pancake - this style is practiced in Osaka. But no matter how the relationship between the dough and cabbage develops, okonomiyaki is always decorated with curls of mayonnaise and a wiggling tuna shaving on top . Recipe from the tatinomi bar "Teburashika.

Okonomiyaki is a large cabbage pancake that the Japanese often make at home. This dish is sometimes called Japanese pizza because of its ease of preparation and the variety of possible fillings. Egg whites and cabbage are used as a base, and then you can add anything you like: ham, seafood, and vegetables. This is reflected in the name of the dish, which consists of two parts: "okonomi" - "what you like" or "what you want", and "yaki" - this is how fried dishes are called in Japanese . Traditionally, okonomiyaki is decorated with mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce and sprinkled with tuna shavings: from the streams of hot air coming from the okonomiyaki, it begins to move as if alive.