Japanese Pancake with Pork (Okonomiyaki)

Just had this for dinner tonight for about the 5th time. The only thing we do differently is we use a ground sausage, usually homemade, instead of just pork. Fennel sausage worked surprisingly well. The 2 sauces work so well together. We have 8 nice heads of cabbage in the garden and most will probably go for this dish!

I don’t know what these people are talking about because this was easy to make and delicious. We did use more salt and pepper because we tend to like a little more seasoning than most Eating Well recipes call for. We liked it enough to save the recipe and make it more than once. I buy bagged slaw mix, which I can usually get discounted at the local store and makes this easier and pretty inexpensive.

Does anyone test these recipes? There is not nearly enough flour/binding material in this to turn it into a pancake. Flipped it over and it was a pile of ground meat and vegetables sliding off the back of a backing sheet. Not a cohesive pancake at all. This was the first recipe I’ve made since Cooking Light became Eating Well and it will be THE LAST!!!!!!

One star is generous. I glanced back at this recipe several times during and after our collective attempts at consumption, and I honestly followed the recipe to precision. It was not good. We each struggled through our single slice and then threw the rest in the trash. The red sauce (ketchup-based) actually made things worse with a sickingly sweet tang. I can't. It's so bad. Don't do it.