Here is the delicious Hotteok/Hodduk,sweet Korean fried pancake usually sell by Street vendors of South Korea. It is popular winter treat.
About Hotteok/Hodduk/Sweet Korean Fried Pancake
I made this Hotteok /Hodduk /Sweet Korean fried pancake while reviewing the book Korea town.
I used only recipe from the book with little modification, as shape shown in the book was not traditional one which we can get in the streets of South Korea.
Hotteok is a variety of filled Korean pancake, and is a popular street food of Korea. It is usually eaten during the winter season. I was looking for the recipe long time. I love street food, and I know you can’t sell and make a living unless you make tasty delicious dish.
A street vendor has to depend up on the repeat customers, and this is an easy recipe you need both all purpose flour and glutinous rice flour along with milk, yeast and little sugar.
I was amazed by the yeast amount in the recipe from the Korea town book. They use about 1 tablespoon of yeast for 1 ¼ cup flours. I believe that you need less yeast to make great bread or any yeasted goodies. Too much will cause a yeasty taste to bread.
How to make Hotteok/Hodduk/Sweet Korean Fried Pancake
Hotteok which I tried is most common one with sweet filling, sugar, brown sugar mix with cinnamon and walnuts and peanuts.
There is other version which is called Yachae (vegetable) Hotteok, which is filled with Korean glass noodles, vegetables such as onions; chives, and carrots, yachae hotteok has a mildly salty flavor that resembles a fried dumpling.
I think I will try next as hubby will like it. There are other version of Hotteok is there, may be one day I will visit South Korea and taste all these goodies from street vendors.
Instruction to make Hotteok/Hodduk/Sweet Korean Fried Pancake
Ingredients to make the pancake
All purpose flour, gluten free rice flour, yeast and salt
Dough made with milk . Ready for fermentation
After fermentation divide the dough into 8 ball and make sugar walnut filling
Slightly flatten the dough and fill with walnut sugar filling
Cook the Hotteok/Hodduk/Sweet Korean Fried Pancake
How can you resist fried bread filled with cinnamon sugar and nuts, you need to eat it while warm yes, hot ones taste best. Give it a try.
Hotteok/Hodduk/Sweet Korean Fried Pancake
Equipment
Ingredients
For the dough
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup glutinous rice flour
- 2 teaspoon yeast
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup +2 tablespoon Milk
For the filling
- ¼ cup walnuts
- 2 tablespoon peanuts
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine all purpose flour, rice flour, yeast, granulated sugar, salt and add milk and knead it into soft dough.
- Transfer the dough to well greased pan and set aside for doubling.
- While the dough doubles in volume makes the filling. Rough chop the nuts and mix with brown sugar, sugar and cinnamon
- Divide the dough into 8 pieces
- and roll each into a ball then lightly flatten become pancake
- and then add the filling on the center of each pancake, carefully seal them to form a new ball.
- Gently pat the balls down to form the disk.
- Heat the oil into a large frying pan and when it simmering hot, working in batches, place a few pancakes seam side down.
- Fry for 1 minute then slightly press the top with spatula to press it into a small circle then cook
- both sides until it is golden brown. Remove from the oil and drain it in kitchen towel.
- Enjoy while it is warm.
Notes
Nutrition
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
mjskitchen says
What an awesome bite of food!!! I love these! Glutinous rice and anything made with it has always been a favorite of mine and when it's stuff with something sweet, I'm in heaven!
Mullai Madavan says
Well, you are not alone Swathi... i don't have drafts either, lol. Pan cakes looks delish, I have tasted the savory version once at one of our friends place but never attempted to make it at home. Now some one will work on it!
Ruxana says
lovely pancakes, sounds interesting 🙂
Poornima says
Never heard of these before, but they sure do look yum.. I love the filling and the combination is just great!
Anu - My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
I have never had these Korean pancakes before, but they sound and look absolutely intriguing! So YUM!
Sundari says
Very interesting and yummy pancakes!!
Shobha Rawal says
A new & interesting pancake recipe..........must try.
Nalini Somayaji says
Very interesting and some thing new...yummy korean fried pancake. ...let me grab some first then think of doing ..just joking Swatihi lovely pancake..
Mayuri Patel says
An interesting recipe. Its always nice to learn about cuisines from other parts of the world.
Rafeeda says
Very interesting pancake... I seem to like the stuffing a lot...
Rani Vijoo says
Wow ...interesting recipe Swathi, will try ..
tigerfish says
Wow, I have not tried these sweet korean fried pancake before! Looks good! The savory version with vegetables sounds equally good.
veena says
looks beautiful sounds interesting 🙂
Suja Manoj says
Wow beautiful recipe,kids will love this,bookmarked.