Takoyaki recipe: detailed description and cooking methods

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

In order to have some idea of the national cuisine of a particular country, you should try to cook one of its most famous dishes. However, sometimes it is not as easy as we would like. For example, in Japan, not only every cook, but also every housewife knows the takoyaki recipe. And for Russians, this is an exotic product that many would like to try.

Main recipe

Those who were lucky enough to visit the Land of the Rising Sun and get to know the local cuisine better know that takoyaki are dough balls stuffed with octopus meat. The Japanese are very sensitive to their traditions, so every cafe or restaurant uses the same takoyaki recipe.

According to the rules for its preparation, it is required: 200 grams of boiled octopus meat, 450 milliliters of water, 6 grams of powdered broth, onion, 2 eggs, a little olive oil, mayonnaise, dried tuna shavings, chopped pickled ginger and takoyaki sauce(or tonkatsu).

The dish is prepared as follows:

1. First, the broth must be diluted in water, and then add eggs and flour to it. Mix the mass well.
2. For cooking, a special device is used, which is called a "taco bar". In fact, this is a frying pan in which there are several recesses in the form of hemispheres. Before use, it must be well smeared with oil, using a brush for this.
3. Fill 80 percent of each mold with dough.
4. Then add the octopus pieces, ginger and onion.
5. As you cook the product, you need to constantly turn it with special sticks.

The only thing left to do is put the finished products on a plate, pour over the sauce with mayonnaise and sprinkle with dried tuna and onions. This takoyaki recipe is very simple. It requires only imagination, the availability of products and a great desire.

Devices and tools

For the Japanese, stuffed dough balls are the most common dish. Enterprising chefs cook it even on the streets. And they all use the same takoyaki recipe. Any passer-by can stop, wait a bit and get their portion of the famous national fast food. In addition to food products, any cook needs special equipment and tools to work:

1. Taco bar. This is a special frying pan with several spherical recesses. It can be installed directly on the stove or use the electrically heated version.
2. Device for turning blanks. It resembles a screwdriver.
3. Brush for lubricating the surface of the plate. Better if it is made of silicone.

To make these magic balls yourself, you need a special set for takoyaki, which, in principle, consists of these three tools. As a rule, every Japanese family has it.

Strict rules

A first-timer, of course, wants to do it right. Therefore, he must clearly imagine the steps that need to be taken in sequence, so that the result is real Takoyaki. A recipe with a photo in this case is ideal. The first step is to prepare all the necessary products on the desktop. This is 80 grams of boiled octopus, a bunch of green onions, 120 grams of flour, a tablespoon of red pickled ginger, one and a half cups of water, 1 egg, 35 grams of vegetable oil, as well as s alt, mayonnaise, takoyaki sauce, aonori and katsiobushi (dried tuna).

Then everything is done strictly step by step:

1. Boil the octopus meat and cut it into small pieces.
2. Chop onion and ginger.
3. From flour, s alt, eggs and water, prepare the dough.
4. Put this dish on the stove (or plug it in) and use a brush to brush it with oil.
5. Partially fill the indentations in it with dough.
6. Put pre-prepared chopped food into each recess.
7. After a couple of minutes, turn each blank 90 degrees with a special stick.
8. After a few minutes, repeat these steps again. As a result ofeach blank should turn out a ruddy ball.

After that, put the finished products on a plate, pour over prepared sauces and sprinkle with aonori with tuna.

DIY

The name of a popular Japanese fast food consists of two words: "tako" and "yaki", which literally translate as "fried octopus". In principle, according to the recipe, this is how it is. The dish really is pieces of boiled octopus meat baked into a ball of dough. But as you know, any recipe sometimes makes it possible to take various liberties. Mainly it refers to the set of products. However, they should look like real takoyaki. The recipe at home may even look quite unusual.

Take, for example, the option for which you need: per kilogram of potatoes - 3 eggs, 300 grams of shrimp (peeled), s alt, flour, vegetable oil and spices.

In this case, work should be done as follows:

1. Seafood boil for 5 minutes, pre-s alting the water.
2. Add the remaining ingredients to the peeled grated potatoes and knead a moderately thick dough.
3. The mass is divided into pieces, each of which is said into a ball, and then smashed into a cake.
4. Put shrimp pieces in the center of the blanks. After that, they need to be carefully rolled back into a ball.
5. Fry semi-finished products evenly in oil on all sides.

Of course, if you have a taco bar on hand, things will go faster and easier.

In the best tradition

Every Russian can easily prepare a dish of any national cuisine. Even if the desired component is not at hand, it can always be replaced with what is in the refrigerator. For example, a Russian takoyaki recipe sometimes only basically resembles the original. Further, the culinary fantasy already begins to work.

Octopus and dough are better, of course, not to change. Otherwise, it will be impossible to make exactly takoyaki. But the rest is quite amenable to adjustment. For example, along with pieces of octopus, you can add sausages and grated cheese. It won't ruin the taste, quite the contrary. It will become more tender and soft. In addition, the cooking process itself can be carried out by the whole family. There is work for everyone: one will cut the ingredients, the other will prepare the dough, the third will lay everything out in forms and monitor the frying. This is very similar to how dumplings were made in Russia before. After all, our people like to do everything in a team. It is very comfortable. And the time at work with a pleasant conversation goes unnoticed.