Okonomiyaki

[Egenglert]

Hi everybody!

Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is one of my favorite foods, a japanese "pizza" if you like. I've been looking for a gluten-free recipe for about a year now (since coming back from Japan).

Any help is appreciated.

[Takala]

I had to try making this after reading about it, but the problem is I've never tasted the original so I'm not sure if I'm on to it tastewise or not. I also changed the recipe technique a bit to compensate for the gluten free flours. I also read that the "yam" they used is nothing like American yams so I just used an extra egg.

But it already looks very much like something I'd cook anyway. Use a small cast iron pan, 8" size, and put oil in it, heat it up, and then add the cabbage/meat. Pour the egg batter on top, but don't stir. Cook it until the bottom is done, then place the pan under the broiler in the oven and broil until the top is done. I make a lot of quickbreads with this technique, and you don't even have to use xantham gum. Cut into wedges to serve.

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Gluten Free Japanese Cabbage Pancake

Filling:

about one cup shredded cabbage (bagged preshredded cole slaw mix is really good for this )

meat or fish or shrimp, chopped ( I used turkey lunchmeat but bacon, shrimp, tuna, etc is more authentic)

(optional. pickled ginger if you can find it gluten free, bonito flakes, chopped green onions )

cooking oil ( I used olive oil, because that's what I have here. )

Batter:

2 eggs

tablespoon of oil

teaspoon of gluten-free real apple cider vinegar or real gluten-free rice vinegar

1/2 cup of gluten free flour mixture ( I used my standard mix of 1/3 each tapioca, rice, almond meal)

dash salt

pinch cumin ( i put this in most of my bread mixings )

about an eighth to quarter teaspoon baking soda (big pinch )

about 2 tablespoons water

Assemble the ingredients. Turn on the oven broiler. Put the pan on the oven top with some oil to heat it up. Mix the eggs up with the oil and vinegar and water. Put the dry ingredients into another cup (the gluten-free flour, salt, cumin, baking soda ) but don't mix them into the egg liquids until you're nearly ready to use it. Toss the cabbage into the heated pan, add the meat, spread it out evenly, to give the cabbage a bit of a head start, but watch it carefully. NOW mix the flours with the eggs to make a batter. Pour this batter over the cooking cabbage in the pan so it coats everything. Cook it until the bottom is done but the top is still soft/runny, then put it under the broiler and finish it. Watch the pan under the broiler CAREFULLY and don't leave it, because the gluten free flours burn easily.

I don't like flipping cooking food, especially glutenfree food which can act a bit differently, so this is what I came up with to cook both sides with out something landing on the floor. The vinegar also makes the dough behave better, as well as adding leavening power to the baking soda.

I would imagine if you wanted to put other stuff on top of it you could, to make it taste more like okonomiyaki. I just put mayonnaise and ketchup on top of mine with a little bit of gluten-free soy sauce.

If you wanted to add crunchiness, you could add crumbled Lundberg rice cake to it.

This is the recipe I used as a template:

Open Original Shared Link

Attention other people , this bento box lunch site is absolutely full of good ideas that can be used by us because the author did some gluten free cooking for awhile for her husband. The "traveling with bento box lunches" is especially interesting. Open Original Shared Link

here is another recipe from recipezaar:

Kansai Style Okonomiyaki

Open Original Shared Link

this could be made by substituting gluten free flours for the regular flours

I would think that any mixture of 2 or 3 gluten free flours would work.

[Egenglert]

Awesome, thanks so much! I'll try it as soon as I can, I'll post how it worked out!

Also, squid okonomiyaki is one of my favorites, but I also enjoy it with a little seaweed.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Do a search on www.lunchinabox.net, and, if necesssary, send a pm to the blogger. She is no longer gluten-free, but was for nearly a year when her husband was misdiagnosed with celiac disease (it turned out he had an intestinal bacterial infection instead, and once that was properly treated, everything was fine).

Another helpful blogster to ask would be Open Original Shared Link

Good luck!