Hotteok - Korean Sweet Pancakes
The best street food in Seoul is hotteok which is a well-liked Korean dish. It's a great treat or snack, and you could even eat it in the morning. This classic Korean-filled pancake is produced with flour, sugar, milk, and water in a yeasted dough.
After that, the dough balls are shallow-fried till perfectly brown and crispy. A circular, flat stainless steel tool is used to press the dough down onto the griddle while they fry, giving them their flat, round shape. The crispy, golden exterior of the chewy hotteok dough is created by frying it in a small amount of oil in a hot skillet, around a hot, syrupy core flavored with cinnamon and sprinkled with chopped walnuts.
The most popular versions include cinnamon, peanuts, sunflower seeds, honey, brown sugar, and sunflower seeds. The resulting pancake has a crisp outside and a molten inside made of brown sugar, and it is served hot. On a chilly day, hotteok is the ideal snack.
There are countless ways to fill them because the dough is so adaptable. This hotteok recipe can serve as the foundation for whatever filling you want.
- Sift flour, sugar, and salt into a bowl, and mix well. Continue to add yeast and mix well, make a small hole in the center of the flour bowl, and add fresh milk. Wait for the baking powder to reach standards.
- Mix sugar, cinnamon powder, and crushed nuts together.
- Spread the dough thinly (about 1cm thick), then scoop a spoonful of filling into the middle and wrap it tightly.
- Put oil in a good non-stick pan, over medium heat, when the oil is hot, add the cakes. When the cake surface is golden, flip it over, then use a cooking shovel or spoon to flatten the cake. Continue frying until both sides are golden.
