Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, takoyaki. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
At Your Doorstep Faster Than Ever. Takoyaki (たこ焼き or 蛸焼) or "octopus balls" is a ball-shaped Japanese snack or appetizer made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (), pickled ginger (beni shoga), and green onion (negi). The balls are brushed with takoyaki sauce (similar to Worcestershire sauce) and mayonnaise, and.
Takoyaki is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Takoyaki is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook takoyaki using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Takoyaki:
- Prepare 1 cup Plain Flour
- Make ready 1 & 1/2 cups Dashi Stock *Or Water 1 & 1/2 cups and Dashi Powder 1/4 teaspoon
- Take 1 Egg
- Take 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- Make ready Cooked Octopus *OR Prawns, Squid, Ham, Bacon, Cheese, Corn, etc
- Make ready 1/2 cup Spring Onion OR Cabbage *finely chopped
- Make ready Red Or Pink Pickled Ginger *optional
- Make ready <Toppings>
- Make ready Pickled Ginger
- Take Takoyaki Sauce OR Okonomiyaki Sauce OR Tonkatsu Sauce
- Get Japanese Mayonnaise
- Take Aonori (Dried Green Seaweed)
- Make ready Katsuobushi
This is a mouthwatering street food that originated in Osaka, Japan. Takoyaki is basically a bite-sized dough ball with an octopus chunk inside. It is great as a quick lunch or even an appetizer for dinner. Go ahead and try making this takoyaki recipe - it also tastes amazing with some cheese added in as well!
Steps to make Takoyaki:
- Cut the cooked Octopus into bite size pieces. Octopus is hard to find for me, so I often use cooked Prawns or Squid.
- Place Plain Flour, Dashi Stock, Egg and Soy Sauce in a mixing bowl and mix well. If you have a measuring cup or jag with a handle, pour the batter in them first so that it’s easier to pour the batter onto the pan.
- Heat the pan over high heat. When the pan is hot, use a brush to oil the pan, quite generously, and lower the heat to medium to low.
- Pour the batter to fill the bowls of the pan. Add 1-2 Octopus pieces in each hole and sprinkle on the Spring Onion and Pickled Ginger. Pour a little bit more batter over.
- When the bottom of the balls is hardened enough, turn each piece over. The batter flows out from the inside of each bowl and creates the other side of the ball. Flip the ball occasionally to cook evenly.
- When outside is golden, transfer onto a plate and pour Takoyaki Sauce, and other toppings. Serve immediately.
- *Note: You don't have either Takoyaki Sauce, Okonomiyaki Sauce OR Tonkatsu Sauce? Don't give up. Create your own sauce by adding Soy Sauce, Ketchup and/or Oyster Sauce to BBQ sauce.
It is great as a quick lunch or even an appetizer for dinner. Go ahead and try making this takoyaki recipe - it also tastes amazing with some cheese added in as well! Tako means octopus and yaki means grill or fry (as explained in these Japanese food terms), though, it is not just grilled octopus. They are round in shape and made from a batter of flour, egg and dashi stock with octopus and other ingredients as fillings. They are also round because they are cooked in a special pan.
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