Six-Well Garlic Prawn Ahijo (Takoyaki Plate)

Turn your takoyaki plate into six little pans of sizzling, Spanish-style garlic oil. Each well holds prawns, scallops and vegetables in a garlicky, anchovy-rich olive oil — a fun, shareable tapas night on the BRUNO Compact Hot Plate.

  • Serves2–3
  • Cook20 min
  • DifficultyEasy

Ingredients

  • 4 cherry tomatoes
  • 4 mushrooms
  • ⅙ head broccoli, in small florets
  • 2 scallops, cut bite-size
  • 4 prawns, peeled and deveined
  • 2 baby potatoes, halved and lightly par-boiled

Ahijo oil

  • 100ml olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 20g bacon, finely chopped
  • 7g anchovy paste
  • Chopped parsley, to finish

Method

  1. Prep the ingredients: de-stem the tomatoes, hollow the mushroom stems, break the broccoli into small florets, cut the scallops bite-size, peel and devein the prawns, and halve and lightly par-boil the potatoes.
  2. Make the ahijo oil: mix the olive oil, garlic, bacon and anchovy paste together in a bowl.
  3. Spoon about 1 tsp of the oil into each takoyaki well and heat on LOW until fragrant.
  4. Add the prepared ingredients to the wells and cook on MED until done.
  5. Scatter with chopped parsley and serve straight from the plate.

Tip: The takoyaki plate is available separately for the Compact and Oval. Have crusty bread ready to soak up the leftover garlic oil.

You’ll need the takoyaki plate — find it in our hot plate accessories, or browse all BRUNO hot plates.

Equipment used

Recipe by BRUNO Official.

About the author. The Happycooking UK Editorial Team are UK-based specialists in Japanese and Korean kitchen appliances. We source, stock and support every hot plate we sell, so our recipes are written for the models we actually use.