Japanese street food, and so many variations exist that whatever you do to this it is probably not wrong. Great for using up stray bits and pieces and is super quick to make. The cabbage and batter ingredients are essential, the others you can mix and match. For one person you need:

  • One egg beaten
  • 50g plain flour
  • 50ml stock (or hot water with a pinch of stock powder added)
  • 4 cabbage leaves preferably Sweetheart or Chinese Leaves, shredded
  • Quarter of an onion, chopped
  • Small potato, grated
  • Half tsp grated fresh ginger
  • Salt and pepper
  • Other things: chopped bacon, ham, prawns or thinly sliced cooked meat

Stir fry the onion, potato and cabbage. Add in that order so the onion is well cooked. You could add bacon at the same time if that is your thing. Add the ginger. Add whatever other things are going in. Meanwhile make a batter with the egg, flour, stock and season. Pour the batter over the veg and meat in the pan and leave for five minutes. Turn it over and cook another five. You should now have a rather solid-looking pancake. Tip it onto a plate and garnish with chilli sauce, mayo, tuna flakes, dried seaweed. As you can see from the photo above, I only had chilli sauce to hand but it was still good. Find out more here