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Recipe Japanese Spring Onion Pancakeor Chinese Scallion Pancake

Japanese spring onion pancake or sometimes called chinese scallion pancake is one of my favourite savoury pancake. The secret recipe making a crispy and delicious spring onion pancake is made a papaer thin dough and applied a generous amount of oil before folded and rplled the pancake. Oil keeps each layer of rolled dough separated and thus made is crisp up when the pancake is heated in the pan. My sister like to add the whole part (including the white part) of the spring onion, but i prefer using only the green because the white part gor more moisture and it’s made the layered pancake dought not crisp up.

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Japanese Spring Onion Pancake Recipe

Spring onion/Scallion/Leek/Green onion pancake confused me from the very beginning when i’m googling it. Mostly everybody describe the dish as a chinese cuizine. The NHK WORLD show “Your Japanese Kitchen” call the dish Japanese Leek Pancakes, and i’ve been eaten the same dish in japanese restaurant. Anyway, who the hell cares about the dish come from, but i’m preety sure that this appetizer taste really great. Savory, crispy and distinct umami flavour derived from browned spring onion and wheat dough. Dip in your favourite sauce and it’s will be great evenmore.

Recipe Spring Onion Leek Scallion Pancake

Scallion pancake is one of popular assorted streetfood in China. Even here in Indonesia, I’ve never seen any chinese restaurant serve this as an dimsum, but my causin said that they did there. spring onion pancake serve as an appitizer before the real meal. This dish could tickle the taste buds papila to let your crazily starving for more delicated food. But i acctually assume this dish similiar to Indonesian bakwan or deep fried cabbage cake. You can add any spice within the pancake, but i prefer a simple garlic powder for it.

Ingredients :

Chinese Spring Onion Scallion Pancake Recipe

1 cups all purpose flour
1/5 cup warm water
olive oil
salt and pepper
1 cup scallions, green part
Garlic Powder (Mc Cormick)

Instruction :

Mix flour with water until it forms a smooth dough. Knead by doubling the dough over and pressing it down repeatedly, until the dough is even more smooth and very elastic. Coat this ball of dough lightly with 1/2 tbsp oil and put it back in the bowl. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
Cut the dough into 6 equal parts. Lightly spread a little flour in your working area.
Roll out one part of the dough until it is a thin round shape.

Step by Step Recipe Japanese Scallion Pancake

Brush the top of the dough with oil

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Step by Step Recipe Japanese Spring Onion Pancake

sprinkle it evenly with chopped scallions, salt and pepper

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Step by Step Recipe Japanese Scallion Pancake

Springkle with some garlic powder

Step by Step Recipe Leek Pancake

Starting from the long end, roll the dough up tightly, creating one long snake of rolled-up dough, strech out a little bit

Roll out the snake shaped dough bundle again into a snail shaped pancake.

Step by Step Recipe Chinese Scallion Pancake

Roll out the snail shaped dough bundle very gently again into a flat, smooth, round pancake

Step by Step Recipe Chinese Spring Onion Pancake

Heat a heavy skillet or sauté pan over medium-high heat, and oil it with a drizzle of oil. When the oil shimmers, pick up the pancake dough and lay it gently in the pan. It should sizzle, but not burn. Cook for 2 minutes on one side.