Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Okonomiyaki  is a savory pancake.  Okonomi  means something along the lines of "what you want" and  yaki  means "grilled" or "cooked." We've made it before - during our  Cooking Around the World Adventure   when we traveled to Japan by tabletop. Click to see that post: here . Tonight, it was less "what you want" and more "what's in the vegetable bin." I had green cabbage, purple cabbage, yellow carrots, and a fennel bulb. It was a quick, filling dinner. Ingredients 2 C organic chicken stock 2 C white whole wheat flour 4 eggs 6 C chopped or sliced vegetables (I used a mixture of cabbage, carrots, and fennel) 1 C tuna 1/2 C dried shrimp butter for pan-frying mayonnaise, to garnish okonomiyaki sauce, to garnish Procedure Mix all of the ingredients - except butter, mayonnaise, and okonomiyaki sauce - together in a mixing bowl. Melt butter in a large, flat-bottom pan and spoon 1/2 C batter into a pancake sha...

  Okonomiyaki  is a savory pancake.  Okonomi  means something along the lines of "what you want" and  yaki  means "grilled" or "cooked." We've made it before - during our Cooking Around the World Adventure   when we traveled to Japan by tabletop. Click here   to see that post . Tonight, I decided to add chicken. The batter: 2 C chicken stock, 2 C white whole wheat flour, and 4 eggs. Whisk all of the ingredients together to form a thin pancake batter. Stir in 6 C of cabbage, 1 C cooked chicken, and 1/2 C dried shrimp. Cook in a flat pan until the batter is cooked, the cabbage is softened, and the pancake is lightly browned. I have seen beautiful images of okonomiyaki garnished with okonomiyaki sauce marbled with mayonnaise. We opted for the plop and smear method. So, it wasn't very photogenic, but it was delicious. All the  okonomiyaki  sauce recipes I found were slightly different. I mixed some ketchup, honey, lem...