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Monjayaki もんじゃ焼き

TokyoKantoGrilled dishHome area: Moon Island and the entire city.
Monjayaki
Monjayaki (もんじゃ焼き)Photo: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” database
PrefectureTokyo (東京都)
RegionKanto
Japanese nameもんじゃ焼き(もんじゃやき)
ReadingMonjayaki
Home areaMoon Island and the entire city.
Main ingredientsI'm going to show you some of the things that you can do.

History and Origins

It's a dish that mixs the ingredients with the flour melted with water and is baked with iron and eats the hot with each pot. In the 20th century, when food was a food problem, the children were generally accustomed to cooking simple rice with the flour melted and oil and syrup added. When supplies were scarce, children who had difficulty getting paper and writing tools had to learn how to write and play letters on iron plates with a melted dough in water. They were called "kids" and were turned into "mocks." During the postwar economic growth, children have evolved with tools such as cabbage, corn, and eggs, but at the same time, candy stores with which their children are associated are greatly reduced. Several houses of cinders were raised to retain the flavor they had been so close since they turned into grown-ups and so forth, and so on. It's essential to burn rice in the sink, iron plate and pot. Soy sauce is usually a little skimpy from the outside of the fabric, or a little bit pressed on the iron plate, so it is eaten, but now it is very rich in a variety of materials and can enjoy a variety of flavors.

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When It Is Eaten

Although originally eaten as a child, Moon Island established its reputation as a town and is enjoyed and eaten daily with family and friends.

How It Is Eaten

The cabbage and red pepper will be cut into rough pieces. Hallcorns water well. The big bowls are filled with water, uster sauce and bar oil, mixed with sieve oil, and then mixed with thin flour and mixed well. Add cherry blossoms and fried eggs and mix them quickly. I'll heat the iron plate to 230 degrees Celsius. I'll get the salad oil, and I'll mix the tools lightly and then put it in. I'll cook lightly until the material gets a little bit fluff. We collect materials in the middle and make a hole in the middle of the walnuts. The fabric is poured in the center of the bowl, and the center is usually cooked for about two minutes until the whole fire is over. The whole pot is mixed with a pot, and the whole pot is thind with a pot. In the home, even a hot plate can be made.

Recipe — Serves 3

Ingredients

Method

  1. We'll cut cabbage into rough short books.
  2. The water of citrus B, flour, and Japanese rice is put in a bowl and mixed well.
  3. Add a Uster sauce with a <b>b> </ b> and mix it up.
  4. Put a tool on top of it.
  5. We can add oil to the heated hot plate and stir out only three tools.
  6. You can cut the materials into pieces and mix them together, like a pot.
  7. When the cabbage gets a little tight, we make a round doughnut-like mound and pour the dough into the middle.
  8. Wait until the fire passes, and when the surface starts to rise lightly, stir and spread the whole thing.
  9. If you like, you can put a blue button on it, put a pepper on it, and if it gets stuck on the back side, you eat it with honey.

More About Monjayaki

Monjayaki (もんじゃ焼き; often called simply "monja") is a type of Japanese pan-fried batter, popular in the Kantō region, similar to okonomiyaki, but using different liquid ingredients.

Ingredients

Like okonomiyaki, the base of monjayaki is wheat flour and cabbage, with additional ingredients like meat, seafood or mentaiko added according to the diner's preference. However, additional dashi or water is added to the monjayaki batter mixture, making it runnier than okonomiyaki. The ingredients are finely chopped and mixed into the batter before frying. The consistency of cooked monjayaki is comparable to melted cheese.

Diners eat directly from the grill using a small spatula. Monjayaki diners also participate in the cooking by spreading raw monja on the grill so that crispy bits form and caramelize. Many monjayaki restaurants can be found in the Tsukishima district of Tokyo where the dish is said to have originated. Most of these restaurants also serve regular okonomiyaki.

Text adapted from the English Wikipedia article Monjayaki by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dish data: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” (Our Regional Cuisines) database, used under the Public Data License (PDL1.0); translated and adapted from the Japanese original.

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