Name: Chinese Scallion Pancake recipe by Runa Ganguly at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 250 gm all purpose flour; Sugar 1 tbn; 2 green onion/spring onion bunches chopped finely; salt to taste or 3/4 tsp; hot water 80 ml; cold water 70 ml; 2 tbn oil for dough, 1 ts for rolling,1 Tb for cooking; additional flour for dusting

ABOUT Chinese Scallion Pancake RECIPE

A scallion pancake is a kind of pancake made with green onions. In Mandarin, it’s known as cong you bing. It’s hard to tell where it was first created, but many of these tales point to Shanghai in northeastern China. It’s a popular breakfast flatbread in China. The scallion pancake greatly resembles an Indian paratha.

Ingredients Serving: 4

250 gm all purpose flour
Sugar 1 tbn
2 green onion/spring onion bunches chopped finely
salt to taste or 3/4 tsp
hot water 80 ml
cold water 70 ml
2 tbn oil for dough, 1 ts for rolling,1 Tb for cooking
additional flour for dusting

Instructions

Place all the dry ingredients, besides green onions in a mixing bowl
Add hot water and oil first and mix roughly for a minute
Then pour in the cold water and knead into soft pliable dough
Rest the dough covered aside for 20 minutes
Use this time to clean and finely chop the green onions
After resting period place the dough on the working surface or rolling board
Dust some flour and reknead the dough to make it slightly firm
Make batches of handful of dough ready to be rolled flat
Without adding much flour for dusting roll out a handful into square/round shape as desired
Next brush 1 ts oil on the surface and add a generous amount of green onions
Gently Start rolling into cylindrical log
Now fold/roll into a circle and rest aside while you create the rest of the rolls with the remaining dough in similar fashion
Now flatten the rolled dough on the rolling surface using your hand and gently start to roll them into a disc again
Heat oil in a non stick pan and spread it evenly and place the flat bread on it
Cook on both sides on medium-Low heat till done and take off heat
Serve hot with soy sauce or any spicy sauce of your choice

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