Takoyaki Home Party!

We have covered a bit on Takoyaki before on JapanNewbie, here we go again!

This time, do-it-yourself (or with 6 friends) Takoyaki. A while ago we had a Takoyaki party at a friends house, and she brought out the very special Takoyaki cooker!

We started eating at 1pm, and had 60 Takoyaki between the 7 of us. That’s 3 rounds on this Takoyaki machine, because as you can see, it can yak’ 20 tako’s at a time. Then, at about 7pm, we did it again and had 60 more!

That’s 120 Takoyaki in 8 hours. Gotta be a record!

Basically you just plug it in, and the iron gets hot. Then you pour in your Takoyaki batter (just flour, water, egg), and then add your pieces of goodness.

The goodness usually consists of Tako (octopus) of course, and the usual green onion, minced ginger and what not… but you can also include crazy things like mochi (rice ball), cheese, chocolate and whatever else is lying around the table. After the bottom gets warm, you stick a toothpick in and spin the ball around, and the not yet hard batter stuff on top will seep down, completing the Takoyaki and creating a round mass.

Once done take them all out and add your Takoyaki sauce, and aonori (green seaweed stuff) on top, and mayonnaise if you like, and you’re ready to go! It looks like a mess now… but really you can get them to end up nice and round like this with some quick toothpick skills.

The good thing about Takoyaki is that once they’re done, you can’t really tell what’s inside!

Yummy!

- Harvey