Savory butternut pancakes
Pancakes
American cuisine
As I was working up a recipe for butternut squash, I recalled my trip to Japan, where I fell in love with a savory cabbage pancake called okonomiyaki. "Okonomi" means "as you like it" or "your style." In Japan the savory cakes contained shredded cabbage and other vegetables, barely held together in a batter, and often bits of meat or fish, whatever one wished. The batter is fried, a dollop at a time, much like a latke. The recipe is flexible and forgiving: you adjust the amounts of vegetables and batter to suit each other and your own taste. This riff on okonomiyaki uses pureed roasted butternut squash to flavor the batter, and red cabbage instead of green. I added grated carrots, bacon and fresh ginger. I serve this with rice wine vinegar and soy sauce, but plain yogurt would also be delicious --- or your own way!
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