Monjayaki

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Teppan Fried Batter

Monjayaki is a popular Tokyo street food made from a flavorful batter mixed with diverse ingredients like cabbage, seafood, and meat. Discover its origins, variations, and how to recreate authentic restaurant-style monjayaki at your own dining table!

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Monjayaki

Yield

2 servings

Type

Street food

Time

25 minutes

Level

Easy

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what you'll need:

» cooking oil » cake flour » dashi stock » Worcestershire sauce » soy sauce » tempura bits (tenkasu) » shredded dried squid (kiri ika) » dried baby shrimp (hoshi ebi) » chopped cabbage » cheese (cheddar or gouda) » seaweed powder (aonori)

Preheat

Preheat the griddle on a medium-high setting and add a drizzle of oil. Spread it around evenly. While you're waiting for it to heat up, prepare the batter and ingredients.

1

Sift flour

Sift the cake flour into a bowl to prevent lumps of flour in the batter.

2

Make batter

Add dashi, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce to the flour and mix until smooth. The batter should be thin like water.

3

Add dry ingredients

Add the dried squid, dried shrimps and tempura bits and mix.

4

Add cabbage

Roughly cut the cabbage into small pieces and place it in the bowl so that the underneath is touching the batter, no need to mix.

5

Cook cabbage

Once the griddle is hot, add the cabbage and a small amount of batter. Mix well and cook until slightly softened.

6

Make a well

Make a well in the center by pushing the cabbage to the edges to form a ring shape. Try and make the well big and the edges tall so that the batter doesn't leak out when you pour it in.

7

Add batter

Pour the batter into the well one third at a time. If it seems like it's going to overflow, then make the well bigger and the cabbage wall taller.

8

Thicken and mix

Allow the batter to thicken a little before mixing everything together.

9

Spread

Spread the monjayaki batter into one thin layer.

10

Add toppings

Sprinkle your choice of toppings such as shredded cheese, mochi, aonori, etc. Cook until the underneath forms a thin crust.

11

Enjoy!

Scoop up and eat straight from the griddle, or divide onto plates. Enjoy!

12

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