A Monday night quickie … welcome Okonomiyaki mini

Well after all the tex-mex delights yesterday and a big huge mega craving for plain old toast averted … I gritted my teeth and whipped up some Okonomiyakis (Japanese pancakes) in miniature. 

For the pancakes just quickly spirolli a carrot and a zucchini. Add half a cup of Slendier Angel Hair noodles. Mix. Season. Heat frying pan to medium heat. Add oil, heat to hot. Grab a bundle of your long strands and wrap them in a tight ball like a ball of string. Place in pan and with an egg flip flatten them. Cook one side 5-10 mins until browned and crispy. They will splatter and spit, ignore, they will flatten as the water leaves the zucchini and carrot.

Flip (carefully) and cook other side for the same. Remove and allow to sit on paper towel. Don’t leave too long. They hold together really well, as long as they’re bound properly to begin with. Don’t try to make them bigger than your palm, or else they don’t hold together well, thus the “mini” in this recipe.

The above recipe makes 6 small pancakes.

Have your sauces ready to devour. You want to eat them crispy and yummy, they go soggy if you leave them too long. Not one to freeze or pre-cook, just eat on the spot, a bit like toast !

The brown sauce recipe is below, this is where the magic lives. I used my cauliflower mayonnaise in combination.

YUM YUM !

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Japanese Brown Sauce
Serves 8
A Japanese inspired tangy sauce, use with sushi and okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes)
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Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
3 min
Total Time
8 min
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
3 min
Total Time
8 min
Ingredients
  1. 1/4 cup Fountain Good Choice tomato sauce (or similiar, low cal & sugar)
  2. 1 1/2 tbs Worcestershire sauce
  3. 1 tsp Stevia (optional)
  4. 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  5. 1/4 tsp Dijon mustard
  6. 1/2 tbs rice wine vinegar
  7. 1 tbs soy sauce
Instructions
  1. Place all ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook on a medium heat for 3 minutes until it thickens and goes syrupy.
Notes
  1. This sauce keeps in the fridge for a up to a week.
  2. The ground ginger is what gives it a great flavour.
  3. Nutritional Panel Notes
  4. This is a US based scoring system, so notes fibre as a sub category of carbs, so you need to minus fibre to get the total carb count for the Australian & NZ calculation
  5. Also note nutritional panel is calculating sugar based on normal tomato sauce, it doesn't recognise the Good Choice brand (low salt and sugar), therefore sodium and sugar is miscalculated as well.
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  1. Kerry Newbery
    August 11, 2015

    This was a great lunch today, sauce is fantastic but I added Cumin and Curry to the zuchinnis and carrots. Yummo – thank for sharing Joni

    • Joni Condos
      August 11, 2015

      Sounds like a great addition Kerry ! I shall give that a go, thanks for suggestion 🙂 Joni x