This takoyaki pan allows you to make the popular Japanese street food snack at home. Takoyaki are little dumplings filled with pieces of cooked octopus – the “tako” – and then fried “yaki”.

This cast iron takoyaki pan makes batches of 14 takoyaki balls at once, and works on induction stoves. Brush a little oil into each of the 14 wells of the takoyaki pan, and heat it up before filling the well with a hemisphere of batter. Keep rotating the cooking batter, adding more and more of the mixture until it forms a perfect round in the takoyaki pan. Click through to the Bureau of Taste for our . 

Traditionally, the octopus takoyaki balls are served with Japanese mayonnaise, aonori seaweed flakes, okonomiyaki sauce and , all of which are available individually. 

Also try ‘sweet takoyaki’ by replacing the soy dashi and octopus with a little sugar, vanilla, fruit or chocolate.