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Holiday Cooking

Well, spring has certainly sprung in the kitchen and garden!  Students have enjoyed cooking with produce from the garden including a particularly big cauliflower, lots of herbs and of course the fresh eggs from our chickens.  We have broad beans growing beautifully on a magnificent student and parent structure - thank you Fiona!  

 

 

This week we decided to make the most of the gorgeous Spring sunshine and ate outside on our lovely deck. We used the last of the winter produce in a menu which included cauliflower pasties and Okonomiyaki, or Japanese style vegetable pancakes. This dish is a popular street or snack food in Japan and is easily replicated at home. You can follow the recipe we used (below) but after you've made it once or twice, you'll probably add your own spin. It's a fabulous way to use up the odds and ends in your vege drawer! Make sure you remember to add a flourish at the end with your squiggly mayonnaise and barbeque sauce .

 

Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pancakes) 

 

 

Ingredients  

1 Cup Flour 

¾ Cup Dashi (Japanese Stock) 

1 Egg 

¼ Cabbage 

1 Carrot 

  1. Onion 
  2. Spring Onions 

½ Ear of Corn 

Barbeque Sauce 

Mayonaise 

 

 

Equipment  

Large Knife 

Grater 

Medium Bowl 

Fry Pan 

Egg Flip 

Wooden Spoon 

Oven Tray 

Cup Measures 

Whisk 

Chopping Board 

 

 

 

What to do 

  • Finely chop Cabbage. Peel and Grate Carrot. Finely slice onion. Chop corn off cob. Finely slice spring onions. 
  • Break an egg into a bowl and add dashi and flour. Whisk until smooth. 
  • Add vegetables to the flour mix. 
  • Heat the fry pan with a little bit of oil and add a spoon full of the mixture to the fry pan. 
  • Cook each side for 1-2 minutes or until golden brown. Using egg flip, flip pancake over and cook again for 1-2 minutes or until golden brown. 
  • Keep warm on oven tray until all of the mixture is cooked. 
  • Before serving, top with barbeque sauce and mayonnaise.