Okonomiyaki is a popular Japanese street food consisting of cabbage, egg, and other various items like meat, fish, even yakisoba noodles. The word “okonomiyaki” means “grilled as you like it”, indicating that you can put virtually anything in these pancakes, sometimes referred to as Japanese pizza. This recipes is a simple, vegetarian version of the dish (if you leave out the bonito flakes).
In my opinion, this is the perfect brunch dish. Hearty and savory, this dish has everything I’m looking for in brunch. The waffle is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside and lightly flavored of corn and jalapeno . On top, “refried” black beans, a fried egg, pico de gallo, avocado, and lime crema. Delicious.
These little beauties are crowd pleasers. Perfect for this time of year, they sing with the flavors of spring. Using prepared pasta sheets instead of making your own pasta makes these pretty simple to prepare. Of course you could always make your own pasta for these if you have the time and inclination.
You do have to be careful in your prep for these. You can’t break the yolks. They need to be intact when you put them into the ricotta “well”. The good news is that you only need to make one per person. These are LARGE ravioli. My husband calls them “gigantoli” and asked to be given credit for coining that term in this post. However, I later came up with “gianteggoli” and am not going to credit him with that little piece of genius. 🙂
You could make these even more beautiful by cutting the pasta sheets into circles instead of leaving it rectangular.
