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Tuesday 23 October 2012

Spring Onion Pancake Recipe

By Ben Panny


Spring onion pancakes are certainly one of the several varieties of Chinese pancakes that have been part of Chinese cuisine for centuries. As of late, plain Chinese pancakes as well as the spring onion pancakes are frequently served as an accompaniment to tasty Chinese dishes like moo shu pork and Peking duck. They make an awesome wrap for these and other Chinese food or a very good meal by themselves.

Like most Chinese-style pancakes, the spring onion pancake recipe tends to make a dough as an alternative to a batter like regular American pancakes. This spring onion pancake recipe is simple and enjoyable to produce. Maybe one extra note before we go to the ingredients - although this recipe is actually a version of Chinese pancakes we have 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. Should you decide on to go this route, you can merely add about a teaspoon of baking powder. That is the only difference 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 until well blended.

2. Knead the dough in the bowl until all the flour has been absorbed. The dough must not be sticky.

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

4. While 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 3 pieces and knead every single piece again.

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

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

8. Brush oil onto the top of every single circle and after that 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 single piece.

11. Roll each of these pieces out once more to inch.

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

13. Cook each pancake till they are golden brown on the two sides.

These are terrific for lunch and dinner rolled up and dunked in soy sauce. You could 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 initially rolling eight individual circles as an alternative to 3. Brush each one with oil and sprinkle on some onions as before then roll every single of them into a cylinder. Pinch the ends closed so the onions won't drop out whenever 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 every "wheel" down flat and roll them out once again to inch. Then fry every spring onion pancake as before.




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