How To Make Nutritious and Yummy Okonomiyaki

I'm looking for some yummy and nutritious vegetable snack recipe and came across this Okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki is also called the "Japanese Pizza". 'Okonomi' means 'whatever you like' and 'yaki' means 'cook or fry.' I've found many versions on how to make nutritious and yummy Okonomiyaki in the web, but I like the one posted by visualrecipes.com. It's called Osaka-style Okonomiyaki.

Ingredients:

Base:

1 cup flour

3/4 cup dashi (or water, see below)*

1 egg

1/8-1/4 of a cabbage

Toppings - any of the below:

Chicken

Roast pork or beef

Squid, Octopus, other seafood

Corn

Mushrooms

Onion

Garnishing - any of the below, if you can find it and actually want it:

Katsuo-bushi (dried bonito flakes)

Sakura-ebi (dried shrimps)

Beni-shoga (red ginger)

Ao-nori (green seaweed)

Sauces:

Okonomiyaki sauce (or tonkatsu sauce)

Mayonnaise

Cooking procedure:

1. Chop the cabbage finely. Do not include the white stem parts.
2. Break an egg into a large bowl and pour in the dashi/water, and the flour. Then beat with a whisk until smooth.
3. Add some of the finely chopped cabbage and mix as best you can.
4. Heat up your skillet, electric fry pan, grill, or whatever you're going to use to cook this yummy recipe. Preferably use something that has teflon on it.
5. Prepare your toppings and just chop it all up good.
6. Throw it all in the fry pan with some oil to keep it all well-lubed. Cook until either heated through or in the case of raw meat or veges, for a few minutes until it's getting close to being cooked.
7. Arrange the nearly cooked toppings in a round. Then throw the cabbage/dough mixture on top, also in a round!
8. Turn up the heat a little to medium and let it cook through for 5 minutes or so. Then flip it. Let it cook for another 5-10 minutes. You can break away a bit of the dough bit when it doesn't look raw any more and see if the cabbage and dough is cooked through.
9. Flip it out onto a plate and cover liberally with Okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise!
10. Cut, serve and enjoy!

For a detailed cooking procedure with images, go to visualrecipes.com.

Image credit: visualrecipes.com