Green Onion Pancakes

I grew up eating green onion pancakes.  I love them, and my kids love them too.  We usually eat them for breakfast.  They are easy to make and take just a very few ingredients.  If you are not familiar with them, green onion pancakes are a kind of non-leavened flat bread.  They are not like the fluffy pancakes you normally think of that are made from a batter. If you google Green Onion Pancakes or Scallion pancakes, you will find all sorts of sites that will tell you or even show you how to make them.


This is how I make mine:


Green Onion Pancakes

2 1/2  cups flour
1 cup boiling water
1/4 cup cold water
salt
vegetable oil
1/2 cup of diced green onions

Mix 2 cups flour and boiling water.   Add 1/4 cup cold water and additional 1/2 cup of flour.  Knead until dough is smooth (maybe 5 to 7 minutes).  Put dough back in mixing bowl and cover with wet cloth and set aside.  Chop up green onions.  Put a little vegetable oil (maybe 1/4 cup) in a bowl.  Divide dough into 8 equal sized balls.  Flatten the dough...doesn't matter if it is round at this point.  Brush some vegetable oil over the top.  Sprinkle a little salt evenly over the top.  Add some green onions. 


Roll the flattened dough up like a jelly roll. It's okay if the oil and onions squish out a little.

Then start at one end and roll it up so that it looks like a wheel or a coil. Tuck the end under the bottom and pinch a little so that your coil stays together when you start to flatten it.

Flatten the coil slightly with your palm and then roll it out 1/4 inch thick with a rolling pin. You should be able to make roughly 8 CD sized onion pancakes.

Fry in a little bit of oil for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden and crispy.  I can fry about 3 in a large frying pan. I usually use a griddle and fry about 5 at a time.  My kids like their onion pancakes plain.  I like mine with a fried egg and warm soybean milk...yum!  How do you like to eat yours?