Description
You'll love eating your vegetables with these easy, savory scallion pancakes! Pan-fried aromatic scallions, bacon and seafood are ready to eat in under 30 minutes. Enjoy as a meal or a snack.
Ingredients
Batter
- 1/2 cup all-purpose wheat flour
- 3/4 cup ice cold water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dashi granules or chicken broth powder (optional)
Filling
- 8 cups scallions, sliced diagonally into 1-2 inch pieces
- 1 slice bacon (no sugar added) or raw, fresh pork belly, sliced into pieces about an inch wide
- 1/4 pound seafood like boiled octopus, raw squid and raw shrimp, chopped into bite-sized pieces (remove the shells and tails from shrimp first and leave them whole)
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil, such as canola, avocado, vegetable, bacon fat
Instructions
- Whisk batter ingredients together. It should be the consistency of runny pancake batter and it is okay if it is lumpy. Set aside.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a frying pan. Fry bacon over medium-high heat. When bacon is crisp, add chopped octopus. Sauté octopus for a few minutes, stirring constantly to cook off steam.
- When most of the liquid has evaporated, sauté scallions with the bacon and octopus for a minute until the scallions soften and wilt.
- Pour batter over the scallion, bacon, octopus mixture. Loosely stir ingredients together. Push in edges of the mixture with a spatula to form a pancake shape.
- Leave it to cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Lift the edges of the pancake with a spatula to check for browning. When the bottom is browned, the pancake is ready to flip over.
- When it is time to flip the pancake over you have one of two options:
1: If you want to keep the shape of the pancake, wear oven mitts so that the frying oil doesn't drip down and burn you, then place a large plate over the pancake, and while holding the plate in place with one hand, flip the pancake over onto the plate by flipping over the pan with the other hand. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan, heat it up, then slide the pancake, uncooked side down, off the plate into the frying pan and cook another 3-5 minutes.
2: OR you can lift part of the pancake up and add 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan. Then “cut” the pancake into pieces with your spatula first, before flipping over each piece.
Notes
For a good crisp crust just let the pancake cook and don't move it around until it is time to flip it over.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: Frying
- Cuisine: American