We used to host International students who would come here to study English and stay with us while they did it. These people are among the bravest people on Earth. They go far from anything that is familiar to them - the customs, the weather, the language and the food. How they don't go mad is beyond mousey me. Most of the people who stayed here were just folks - some folks you like - some - not so much. Some you love. Yoshihiro Shimada San is one of those. He cooked this for us. I wish he would come back, so I could cook for him again. I know some Japanese recipes now Yoshi - please come.
YOSHI'S OKONOMIYAKI
2 cups of plain white flour
1 1/2 cups dashi stock
1 egg
1 potato - peeled and grated
grated cheese
Mix flour, stock and egg to a paste. Stir in potato and cheese.
Add your choice of any number of the following:
beef, pork, bacon or chicken - minced or sliced thinly
seafood - minced or sliced thinly
finely shredded cabbage
chopped onions
a little ginger and/or garlic
sliced mushrooms
canned sweet corn kernels
Cook in an oiled frypan. Yoshi explained this as a kind of Japanese Pizza. (this was back in the day when there were no Japanese restaurants in town and we had never eaten Japanese food - hard to imagine!)
Cook it slow because you want the inside to not be raw floury when you eat it, turn it to cook the other side.
I used to make this into small pikelet things - much easier to flip!
Serve topped with the brown sauce and Japanese mayonnaise that you can get at the supermarket
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