Monday, October 29, 2012

Recipe for Spring Onion Pancake

By Ben Panny


Spring onion pancakes are one of the many sorts of Chinese pancakes that have been part of Chinese cuisine for centuries. Nowadays, plain Chinese pancakes along with the spring onion pancakes are usually served as an accompaniment to tasty Chinese dishes like moo shu pork and Peking duck. They make an excellent wrap for these along with other Chinese food or even a fantastic 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 easy and fun to produce. Maybe one additional note prior to we go to the ingredients - despite the fact that this recipe is actually a version of Chinese pancakes we have put 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. When you select 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 big bowl and slowly mix in the boiling water till properly blended.

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

3. Make use of 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 three pieces and knead each piece again.

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

7. Sprinkle a bit 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 then sprinkle on the onions.

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

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

11. Roll every single of those pieces out once more to inch.

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

13. Cook every single pancake until they're golden brown on the two sides.

These are excellent for lunch and dinner rolled up and dunked in soy sauce. You could also make a special dipping sauce of 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar, as well as a drop or two of sesame oil.

Variation

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

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

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




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