One of our friends of House of Q is Steve Waldron who loves cooking (Instagram: Grill’Inn Guy). His food inspirations come from his travels all over the world including to Japan for griddled teppanyaki and the dish okonomiyaki. This is a “cabbage pancake” and is a perfect dish to be creative and to craft craft variations. Especially for BBQ enthusiasts! Steve most certainly is a foodie, a decorated BBQ pitmaster and seems to always be hungry.
BBQ Griddled Okonomiyaki – a cabbage, bacon and egg pancake
To help us understand this dish, Steve described that okonomiyaki means “anything you like, grilled”. The only rule seems to be the base ‘pancake’ is a mixture of cabbage and flour batter.
Steve says he “swapped out some traditional ingredients with items that are easy to find locally. Many you may already have on hand.”
Normally okonomiyaki is cooked on a steel griddle or a teppan. Many BBQ and grill manufacturers have griddle plates as an add-on feature for their products and it might be worthwhile looking for one the next time you look at BBQ accessories. In this instance, Steve used the Island Grillstone instead.
This dish is best cooked on a medium low heat so the inside steams before the outside gets over cooked. Another tip Steve offers “is not to flatten it down too much. You want it to be a light texture and not dense.” That’s a good tip!
The best part though, is you can add whatever toppings that make you happy! That does indeed make us happy!
Thank you Steve for the recipe, idea and inspiration in the kitchen. We gotta make this one!
Okonomiyaki – Japanese Teppanyaki
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped cabbage/bag coleslaw
- ¼ cup chopped green onions
- ¼ cup panko
- 1/3 cup cake or all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup chicken stock
- 3 eggs – divided
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 3 strips thin cut bacon
- 1 Tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp House of Q House Rub
- 2 Tbsp House of Q Backyard Classic BBQ Sauce
- 1-2 Tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
- Sliced green onions for garnish
Instructions
- On a gas grill, preheat the Grillstone to medium low heat. (about 325F).
- Mix the 1/3 cup flour with the House Rub and coat the bacon strips on both sides. Move to the side.
- Mix the chicken stock and soy sauce together.
- In a large bowl, mix the cake flour, baking powder and salt together. Pour in the chicken stock mixture and 2 of the eggs. Beat well but do not over beat or the okonomiyaki may turn out a bit tough due to the gluten from over mixing. A few lumps in the batter would be fine. Cake flour has less gluten than the AP flour.
- Add the cabbage, green onions and panko to the batter and mix well.
- Lightly spray the preheated grillstone with vegetable oil.
- Add the cabbage mixture and form into a circle. Make it an even thickness but do not flatten it thin or it will be too dense.
- Add the bacon and cook for 8 – 10 minutes then flip and cook for another 8 – 10 minutes.
- Flip one more time so the cooked bacon is now facing up. Brush with Backyard Classic, Five Star or your choice of BBQ sauce then move off the BBQ while you cook the egg.
- While the egg is cooking, drizzle the okonomiyaki with the mayonnaise.
- Add the egg and garnish with more green onions.
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