Scallion pancake. Such an EASY snack or appetizer. The pancakes are great on their own, or paired with a soy sauce and vinegar based dipping sauce. The secret to layered, flaky, chewy-crunchy scallion pancakes?
Scallion pancakes are one of the dishes I missed the most after moving to the US.
Unlike simple stir fries, I seldom cooked them at home and was intimidated by the process.
Scallion pancake is a pan-fried flatbread.
You can have Scallion pancake using 7 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Scallion pancake
- You need 200 gram of all purpose flour.
- It's 140 gram of boiled water.
- Prepare 2 pieces of Scallion.
- You need 8 gram of salt.
- It's 15 gram of Oil.
- You need of Black pepper.
- You need of White pepper (optional).
So easy to make but very delicious. We usually eat this with plain porridge. It is a cheap Chinese food but so. Scallion pancakes really are that easy to make home.
Scallion pancake step by step
- Add 1 teaspoon of salt in the flour before putting boiled water in. Mix it with chopsticks (or spoon) until you can touch the dough by your hands.
- Knead the dough until the surface is slick. Cover it up with wet clothes for 20 mins.
- Roll the dough into a round(around 1 mm tall) sprinkle 8 grams of salt on the dough.
- Add oil on the top of the dough.
- Use the brush to spread out the oil.
- Sprinkle the scallions evenly. Add pepper.
- Roll the dough up gently.
- Close the edge on the side to prevent scallion from popping out.
- Hold the edge on both sides and twist them by different directions at the same time.
- Wind it into 2 circles on top of each others.
- Flat it into 5 cms thick. Cover it by wet cloth for 20 mins to 1 hr.
- Preheat the pan until you can feel the heat on top of it. Put the pancake in. Cook with medium fire..
- Flip it around when the bottom is golden brown(around 3-5 mins). Cover the cap to cook the other side until it golden brown.
- Add oil into the pan (around 20 grams) Pan- fry both side till it’s golden brown.
- Put it on paper napkin to absorb extra oil..
- Voilà ❤️.
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