Takoyaki is a traditional Japanese fast food, which has acquired dizzying popularity around the world. Pieces of an octopus wrapped in a delicate "coat" of liquid dough and cheese, and a snack with mayonnaise and greens ... There is not only the Japanese who can stand. It is not easy to prepare this dish for a beginner, but we'll figure out how to make takoyaki, what recipe, and what it will take.
How to cook takoyaki?
Before you prepare takoyaki, you need to get everything you need, and if you find an octopus nowadays is simpler, then with a special takoyaki-frying pan, things are more complicated: acquiring it on our spaces is not an easy task, but you can not order it on the Internet. What's so special about this frying pan? It has holes throughout its area, which makes it possible to give the finished dish its usual appearance, which resembles a donut. Even for takoyaki it will be necessary to purchase seaweed kombu dasi and katsu dasi (or simply - dried sea kale) in the form of pellets, as well as fish sauce, special takoyaki-sauce, crispy rice and shavings of tuna (Bonito). All the ingredients are easy to find among the heap of delicacies of any market bench of oriental themes, or according to the classics - on the Internet.
Now let's go directly to the cooking process, that is, how to prepare takoyaki.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 300 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- water (cold) - 1 l;
- salt - a pinch;
- kbabu dasi - ½ tsp;
- katsu dasi - ½ tsp;
- soy sauce - 2 tsp.
For filling:
- boiled octopus;
- green onion - ½ beam;
- crispy rice - 100 g;
- grated cheese - 70 g.
For toppings:
- Japanese mayonnaise;
- takoyaki sauce;
- shavings of tuna.
Preparation
We beat eggs, granulated algae and water. The resulting mixture is poured into flour, all the salt and mixed until homogeneous. Cells on takoyaki-frying pan individually oiled with vegetable oil with a brush or a moistened cloth, make sure that the frying pan is sufficiently heated.
Pour the dough to the very edges of the panes in the pan (do not worry if it drips slightly over the edges), now it's time to add chopped green onions, slices of boiled octopus, crispy rice and grated cheese.
To find out if Takoyaki is ready, try turning them around: if you can not do it, then you still have to wait (on average, the correct frying takes about 10 minutes).
One side was roasted? We turn 180 degrees and wait for the second one to fry.
Golden takoyaki cooked at home are served on an oblong plate and are decorated with toppings in the form of mayonnaise, special sauce for takoyaki and shavings bonito. Bon Appetit!