How to Cook Japanese TAKOYAKI

Do you like Japanese Food?
i want to share with you one of their delicious food ,the TAKOYAKI
it is round in shaped kind a crispy outside and juicy inside..

luweeh's kitchen 

Takoyaki Recipe from Luweeh's Kitchen 

If you never heard or tried TAKOYAKI..Tako means octopus and YAKI means to fry or to grill..and made of flavored wheat flour based batter filled with some Japanese ingredients.
you can see them selling usually in festival season ..and of course everywhere ..
i heard that it's also popular in the Philippines, but never tried how they cook it ,what the ingredients they used and how it tastes like..excited to try on my next vacation.

I learned to eat Takoyaki when i met my husband (1986) at first i thought i can not eat them..and i learned to cooked it when my kids requested to make it at home that was 1990 ..

INGREDIENTS 
16 pieces Takoyaki balls ..3 cups flour for 2 cups water or adjust as it needed

12 to 14  pieces takoyaki balls 
2 cups takoyaki flour
1 egg
1 1/2 cup water and more 1/4 cup water..
1/4 cup chopped green onion /chives
boiled takoyaki ..sliced into small pieces or 1 cut bite size per takoyaki ball.
some amount of pickled salted ginger , cut in small pieces /beni shoga
tempura scraps / age dama /optional
dried small shrimps
1/2 tsp fish powder/optional

you can add some chopped cabbage
dried flakes squid
cheese
mochi

SAUCE and toppings
takoyaki sauce or tonkatsu sauce
mayonaise
dried sea weed powder
bonito flakes/katsuo bushi


tools you need..
2 barbecue stick ,or sharp thin tools for takoyaki making..
grilling plate for making takoyaki
some oil and brush


how to cook 
in a mixing bowl combine flour .beaten egg.fish powder and water..mix them all together
consistency should be liquidy not thick batter..

heat your takoyaki plate ...brush with oil all over
and pour the batter to fill the holes and put tako in each holes ,then scattered chives, ginger . dried shrimps ..don't disturbed in 3 minutes..

wait until turned to brown then turn each piece using the skewers ,stuffed the edges as you turn them in a nice round shape balls..
do it every pieces of each holes so that every balls cooked evenly .should be golden brown on all sides..try to eat one piece of takoyaki to know if it's already cooked .

then it's time to plate and brush or pour takoyaki sauce ,mayonnaise .sprinkle it with sea weed powder and bonito flakes on top

serve while it hot...enjoy...

video cooking here..

hope you like the recipe..