Experience the classic Korean dessert Hotteok, a wheat pancake filled with brown muscovado sugar, cinnamon, and chopped nuts. Learn to make these delicious pancakes, originating from the Joseon Dynasty, and enjoy them crispy and warm.
Recipe for hotteok – korean dessert pancake
Hotteok is a classic Korean dessert dating back to the Joseon Dynasty. These delicious wheat pancakes are filled with a sweet mixture of brown muscovado sugar, cinnamon, and chopped nuts before being fried to a crispy golden hue on an iron pan. Hotteok is a perfect combination of a crunchy exterior and a soft, sweet interior, and they are best served warm.
Servings: pcs.
Hotteok - Korean dessert pancake
Experience the classic Korean dessert Hotteok, a wheat pancake filled with brown muscovado sugar, cinnamon, and chopped nuts. Learn to make these delicious pancakes, originating from the Joseon Dynasty, and enjoy them crispy and warm.
Ingredients
- 120 gram Wheat Flour
- 120 gram Water lukewarm
- 50 gram Sugar
- 3 gram Dry Yeast
- 2 gram Salt
- 100 gram muscovado sugar
- 60 gram nuts chopped - e.g., peanuts, cashew, pecan, walnut...
- 28 gram Rapeseed Oil
- 12 gram Sesame Seeds black
- 24 gram Cinnamon
Instructions
- Activate the yeast by stirring it into lukewarm water with sugar and let it rest for 5-10 minutes.
- Mix the salt into the flour and then add the yeast-sugar water to the flour to make a smooth dough that is pliable without being sticky
- Let the dough rise for 60 minutes until it doubles in size
- While the dough is rising, mix the filling ingredients
- Punch down the dough, divide, and form it into 8 equal balls
- Make an indentation in the center of each ball and put 1/8 of the filling into each indentation; gather the dough's edges to form a new ball with the filling in the center
- Heat a pan with oil and place the dough balls on the pan with the seams down and press them flat to a height of 6-8 mm.
- Let the hotteok brown for 2-3 minutes on each side until they are golden and crispy
- Serve hotteok while they are warm.
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