Jiriyaki Miso Wheat Pancake
Quick answer
- Total time
- 27 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 1 serving
- Ingredients
- 10
About this dish
In Gunma's wheat-loving farm villages, jiriyaki, a thick wheat pancake with green onion and sakura shrimp, was the snack eaten by hand at the work breaks at 10 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon.
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It once cooked slowly over the ash heat of an irori hearth, and the name is said to echo the jiri-jiri sound of the batter sizzling.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Toast 5g perilla seeds in a dry skillet over low heat for 2 minutes, stirring until fragrant.
Grind finely in a mortar, then work in 4.5g sugar, 4.5g miso, and 8ml dashi for 1 minute to make a thick sauce.
- 2
Slice 8g green onion very thinly.
Combine 50g wheat flour, the onion, 8g sakura shrimp, and 0.6g baking powder, sprinkle 6.3ml batter water evenly over the mixture, and mix until all the dry ingredients are moistened.
- 3
Coat the skillet thinly with 1 teaspoon cooking oil and preheat over low heat for 1 minute.
Add the batter, spread it evenly with a spatula into an 8mm to 1cm thick round, cover, and cook for 5 minutes.
- 4
When the underside is golden and the edge is set, turn the pancake and cook uncovered for 4 more minutes.
Once no raw batter clings when the center is pressed, cut into diamonds or triangles and coat with the perilla miso sauce while warm.
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- 일본 농림수산성 うちの郷土料理
私たちの郷土料理 · Checked: 2026-08-11
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