Hotteok (Korean Sweet Pancakes)
Hotteok or Korean Sweet Pancakes are a pancake-like treat with a chewy, crispy dough filled with a sweet and gooey brown sugar filling that can include nuts or seeds.
Ingredients
Dough
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp yeast
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup glutinous rice flour or if not available use 2 total cups AP flour
Filling
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 handful chopped walnuts or sunflower seeds can use any nut or seed or omit completely
Instructions
- In a small container mix all the filling ingredients (brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts/seeds) together and set aside.
- In a medium bowl activate the yeast by combining the yeast with warm water, sugar, salt, and oil. Mix then set aside for a few minutes. It should begin to look bubbly.
- Add all purpose flour and sweet rice flour to the yeast mixture and mix thoroughly into a dough.
- Lightly knead the dough, then cover with a damp cloth and set aside to rise for 1 hour or until dough has doubled in size.If sweet rice is not available just use all purpose flour instead.
- Once dough is doubled in size punch dough down and knead gently a few times, then cover and set aside to rest again for 30 minutes. *Note: Dough will be very sticky.
- Punch dough down and turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough into 8 equal pieces.*Note: adding cooking oil to your hands may help with the stickiness when handling dough
- Using your fingers flatten a dough ball into a disk one at a time.
- Add a tablespoon of filling into the middle of the dough, then gather the sides of the dough around the filling, pinch to seal.
- Be sure to seal completely otherwise filling will seep out of the opening.
- Preheat a nonstick pan over medium low heat then add enough oil to shallow pan fry dough. Place dough balls seam side down in the pan and lightly pan fry until golden.
- Fllip dough ball over then using the pancake spatula or hotteok flattening tool press down evenly on the dough ball to flatten.
- Cook until both sides are golden brown then remove from pan and place on a cooling rack to drain and cool.
- Serve right away and enjoy hot!
