Green Onion Pancake (葱油饼)

yields 5 pancakes

Green Onion Pancake

Ingredients

  • 2.5 cup flour
  • 1 cup chopped green onion
  • 6 Tbsp oil
  • .25 cup boiling water
  • .25 cup cold water
  • .5 tsp salt

Instructions

  1. Mix 1 cup of flour with the boiling water.
  2. Add 1 cup of flour and cold water to the mixture from step 1.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix the remaining flour, salt, 4 Tbsp of oil.
  4. Let sit for 40 minutes.
  5. For the flour and water mixture (dough), divide into 5 portions. For each piece, use a rolling pin to roll into .3 mm thick circles.
  6. Spread the flour/salt/oil mixture over each piece of dough. Scatter the chopped green onion over each piece of dough.
  7. Roll up each piece of dough. You should have 5 tubes.
  8. Then roll up each tube into a spiral to end up with a circle shape.
  9. Cover all the pancakes with a wet cloth, let sit for 20 minutes.
  10. Uncover, gently use a rolling pin to smooth out the surface.
  11. Fry each pancake over medium heat using the remaining oil.