From an Overseas Expat: Takoyaki by an Osaka Native
From an Overseas Expat: Takoyaki by an Osaka Native

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, from an overseas expat: takoyaki by an osaka native. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for From an Overseas Expat: Takoyaki by an Osaka Native. I live overseas, so I used to buy imported frozen takoyaki from Japan. But when I visited Japan, I bought a takoyaki maker and carried it back with me.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have from an overseas expat: takoyaki by an osaka native using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make From an Overseas Expat: Takoyaki by an Osaka Native:
  1. Take 200 grams ☆Cake flour
  2. Make ready 2 tsp ☆Baking powder
  3. Take 4 Eggs (large)
  4. Take 16 grams Dashi stock granules
  5. Prepare 1000 ml Water
  6. Get Fillings of your choice
  7. Make ready 1 Octopus, shrimp, squid
  8. Make ready 1 Tempura batter bits (tenkasu)
  9. Get 1 Red pickled ginger
  10. Make ready 1 Chopped green onion
  11. Make ready Toppings:
  12. Get 1 Takoyaki sauce (or okonomiyaki sauce)
  13. Get 1 Mayonnaise
  14. Make ready 1 Bonito flakes
  15. Prepare 1 Aonori

Takoyaki is one of the famous dishes of Osaka. Join us as we sample the delicious takoyaki of Daikanyama Tempu in Shibuya, a store owned by a chef Takoyaki, the famous dish of Osaka, is the kind of cuisine that best represents "flour-cuisine" (Japanese cuisine that uses wheat flour as a main. Osaka is the third largest city in Japan after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is famous for its people's sense If you decide to visit Osaka, you may be looking for great souvenirs to take home to your friends and Takoyaki is such a famous street food in Osaka that it also comes in many forms of souvenir that are.

Instructions to make From an Overseas Expat: Takoyaki by an Osaka Native:
  1. Sift the ☆ ingredients together. (If you don't have cake flour in your region, use pastry flour.)
  2. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them.
  3. Add dashi stock granules to the eggs. Add water little by little while whisking.
  4. Put sifted flour into the egg mixture, and stir until there are no lumps.
  5. Cover the bowl of batter with plastic wrap, and let it rest in the refrigerator. In the meantime, get the fillings ready.
  6. When everything is ready, switch on the takoyaki maker to heat it up. Don't forget to plug it in first!
  7. When the takoyaki maker has heated properly, oil it generously. Use plenty of oil to make the outsides crispy!!
  8. Pour in batter to fill about 80 to 90% full. Put a piece of octopus (or other filling) into each hole. The flour tends to sink to the bottom of the batter, so give it a little stir each time you pour it in.
  9. Add enough batter to the takoyaki pan to hide the surface completely, and add tenkasu (tempura batter crumbs), green onion, and red ginger.
  10. When the outsides of the batter in the indentations come up as shown, it's time to flip them over!
  11. It looks like this when you flip the balls. It looks like a mess, but don't worry.
  12. Flip the balls repeatedly while tucking the raggedy pieces under them. The balls will become rounder and rounder. Add some oil if needed.
  13. When the balls are done, pour on the toppings of your choice and enjoy!
  14. Since I live overseas, it's difficult for me to get a hold of octopus. So I substitute it with squid or shrimp. I make my own tenkasu, and blend my own sauce.

Takoyaki is a fast food that's representative of Osaka. It's in the Amerikamura area of Osaka, an area frequented by young. An Osaka soul food in which you can enjoy the harmony of octopus and dashi soup. Takoyaki is diced octopus inside a round ball of dough. The dough is wheat flour mixed with eggs and flavored with dashi soup.

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