What is hotteok?

Hotteok, declared Hoeduck, is the name of the Korean pancake with the filling of brown sugar, cinnamon and sliced ​​peanuts. This is a popular street food and winter snacks. Pancakes are eaten hot because the filling melts into a sweet syrup filled with a nut. Hotteok is about the size of the donut and is sold by a piece of stalls and food courts throughout South Korea. They are usually not made of zero, but mixes are widely available in grocery stores in Korea and Korean grocery stores around the world.

Traditionally hotteok is fried in oil on a grill or pan. The amount of oil used can be very different, but many believe that the best are made of sufficient oil, that they are almost deeply fried. However, health concerns caused the sale of hotteok fried in much less oil than the earlier version. There are also special forms in which individual pieces can be cooked on gas heat without frying. Texture and depth differs from Thick and Puffy onRelatively thin.

The sharp outside with a fine but slightly chewing interior is ideal for the bread part of the boiled hotteok. Those that are considered the most authentic are made of wheat flour mixed with sticky rice flour, sometimes called sweet rice flour. This mixture gives the pancake a gentle, slightly fragile texture that cannot be duplicated with wheat flour itself.

Glusine rice flour makes the dough that is sticky and very difficult to handle. Successful recipes for making hotteok at home call for changes in flour ratio to flour. One design requires the same part, while the other is three parts of wheat for two parts of rice. The list of ingredients is considered a simple dough, such as milk, yeast, small amounts of sugar and salt. The dough is either kneaded or mixed vigorously, then it must raise once or twice before the pancakes are cooked.

Small pieces of dough are slightly flattened and sweatA is formed on a rough disk with a spoon of filling inside. The filling usually works best if peanuts are finely chopped or ground. Once the grid surface can be pressed with a spatula to make it thinner and larger. Hotteok should usually be served as soon as possible after cooking. Sugar and nut filling is liquid and very hot, so you need to take care and eat gifts.