ingredients (9 servings):
Takoyaki:
100 g flour
0.5 dl dashi (or chicken soup stock)
0.25 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp pickled ginger, chopped
1 green onion, chopped
8 boiled octopus pieces (2cm big pieces)
Okonomiyaki sauce
mayo
katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes)
seaweed
oil
DISCLAIMER: This recipe is not like the real deal! The flavours are similar but the texture is more like fried bread balls. :)
How to:
Takoyaki
Mix the flour, baking powder, dashi and soy sauce. Make sure that everything is incorporated, (add more dashi if needed), but do not over mix. Divide the dough into 8 pieces, arround 18.75 gram/ piece.
Roll out each small dough ball as thinly as possible without them tearing. Add an octopus piece, a pinch of pickled ginger and a pinch of green onion and then pinch the dough together and roll them into balls.
Heat up some oil and when hot enough cook the balls for 3 minutes per side. Put them on a paper towel to remove the excess oil and then place them nicely on a plate. Drizzle some Okonomiyaki sauce and mayo over them and finish the dish by sprinkling some Katsuobushi over the balls.