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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Spring Onion Pancake Recipe

By Ben Panny


Spring onion pancakes are certainly one of the many types of Chinese pancakes which have been part of Chinese cuisine for centuries. Today, plain Chinese pancakes as well as the spring onion pancakes are usually served as an accompaniment to tasty Chinese dishes like moo shu pork and Peking duck. They make an awesome wrap for these and also other Chinese food or a good meal by themselves.

Like most Chinese-style pancakes, the spring onion pancake recipe tends to make a dough rather than a batter like classic American pancakes. This spring onion pancake recipe is simple and fun to create. Perhaps one more note just before we go to the ingredients - although this recipe is a version of Chinese pancakes we've place it under vegetable and salty recipes.

Spring Onion Pancake Recipe Ingredients

2-1/2 cups of all-purpose flour*, 1 cup boiling water, 2-3 spring onions**, cup cooking oil, salt

*Some recipes use 1-3/4 cup all-purpose flour and cup of self-rising flour. If you pick to go this route, you can merely add about a teaspoon of baking powder. That is the only distinction between all-purpose and self-rising flour.

**Spring onions are merely green onions.

Directions

1. Sift the flour into a sizable bowl and slowly mix in the boiling water till nicely blended.

2. Knead the dough in the bowl till all of the flour has been absorbed. The dough should not be sticky.

3. Use damp paper towels to cover the dough and let it sit for an hour.

4. At the same time the dough is sitting, chop the onions finely and prepare and flour a surface for rolling the dough. Also rub some flour on the rolling pin.

5. Tear the dough into three pieces and knead each piece once again.

6. Roll every of the 3 sections into a -inch circle.

7. Sprinkle slightly salt onto each circle and press it in to the dough using the rolling pin.

8. Brush oil onto the top of every circle then sprinkle on the onions.

9. Layer the pancakes, one on top of the other, and roll this up into a cylinder.

10. Cut the cylinder into eight separate pieces and use your hand to flatten every piece.

11. Roll every of these pieces out again to inch.

12. Heat a frying pan and brush it with a small quantity of oil.

13. Cook each and every pancake until they're golden brown on both sides.

These are great for lunch and dinner rolled up and dunked in soy sauce. You may also make a unique dipping sauce of three tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar, and a drop or two of sesame oil.

Variation

You could form the pancakes differently than explained above by first rolling eight individual circles instead of 3. Brush each one with oil and sprinkle on some onions as before after which roll every of them into a cylinder. Pinch the ends closed so the onions won't drop out when you do the next step.

Take every cylinder and roll them up on themselves along their length to form a coil or wheel shape.

Lay each and every "wheel" down flat and roll them out again to inch. Then fry every single spring onion pancake as before.




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