What is Pajeon?
Pajeon is a Korean food that has a green onion as the primary component. It is a type of pancake or omelet, which in its most basic form contains nothing but flour, water and green onions. However, the recipe variations can include eggs, molluscs, kimchi or other vegetables. Simple preparation and quick cooking times make food very popular as noon snacks or as part of a larger selection of food during a presentation for dinner. When served, the Pajeon can be accompanied by rice, bean cottage cheese, vinegar sauces, or can be sprinkled with ground pork. The water is very cold, so it helps to become sharper when boiling. The flour used can be white flour, rice flour or buckwheat flour, the other used in certain areas of South Korea. In some versions of the bowl, prepared sticky rice is also added to the dough to make it multiple.
Although this is not required in every Pajeon recipe, eggs can be added to the bowl in different ways. It can be defeated and whipping into the dough of water and flour, bringing the bowls more weight and a little more height. The more traditional method of adding an egg in some areas is to pour broken eggs to the top of boiled pancakes while still in a pan, allowing it to create one thin layer at the top.
Cooking Pajeon begins with the addition of ingredients to a hot pan with a little oil. The classic food uses only the green onion, which is either chopped into pieces or arranged side by side in a layer in a pan when it is a whole. Are cooked until they heat up. The pan also adds any other ingredients such as oysters, shells, kimchi, bean curd or robbers and are left to warm.
The dough is poured through the ingredients in the pan. Heat caused the dough to stand when it cooks and forms a brown bark at the bottom. Once almost cooking all the way, the whole pancake turns overin a pan and leaves cooking on the opposite side. When the other side slightly brown, the food is done.
Pancakes can either be cooked on small individual discs or into one large, which is cut into individual slices. The Pajeon is usually served with a sauce that can be a very hot or spicy combination of green onion, vinegar and soy sauce. It can also be accompanied by rice or fried bean curd.