Fried Spring Onion Pancake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 3 green onions, finely chopped
• 1/4-1/2 cup cooking oil
• salt, to taste

Recipe

• 1 boil 1 cup of water; add 1/4 cup of cold water to the boiled water.
• 2 put 3 cups of flour into a large bowl; slowly pour approximately 1 cup of the hot water into the flour and stir the bowl while you pour.
• 3 knead until all of the flour in the bowl has joined the dough; (it may seem like there is too little water at first, but be patient; the dough will be kind of hot when kneading; when you are done, your dough should not be sticky and should look grayish).
• 4 cover the ball of dough with 2 layers of moist paper towels; leave covered for at least 1 hour; after an hour or so, the dough should have transformed from gray to ; (you can use the wait-time to prepare the next step).
• 5 have your chopped onions and cooking oil ready in small bowls; make sure your rolling pin and rolling board are floured; the steps to follow will need to be repeated until all of the ingredients are used up.
• 6 make a ball of dough 6-10 ounces in volume; (6 ounces will give you a pancake the size of a cd and will allow you to o fry 2-3 of them at the same time;) make sure you re-cover the bowl each time you remove some dough.
• 7 use the roller to flatten the ball into a round circle 2-mm thick; sprinkle salt (you decide how much) uniformly over the'circle;' use the roller to roll the salt crystals into the dough.
• 8 brush a thin amount of cooking oil uniformly over the circle; then sprinkle 1-2 teaspoons of chopped onion uniformly over the circle; (read the next step before applying the onions, so as to better understand how much onions to apply).
• 9 roll the circle into a cylinder; (if you put too much onion, it won't roll well) gently squeeze as much air out of the'cylinder' as you can; pinch the ends so the onions wont fall out; (if the sides of your cylinder start popping holes, you made the circle too thin, but don't worry).
• 10 roll the cylinder along the length and tuck the outer-end into the roll; your creation should look like a snail shell and be shaped like a rollerskate wheel.
• 11 rest the'wheel' on its face and use your roller to flatten it into a pancake, around 4-5 mm thick; don't be worried if onions start spilling out when you flatten.
• 12 brush your frying pan with cooking oil and fry on low heat; turn when the bottom is crispy; the final pancake should be crispy on the outside, with a few burn spots on the surface, and dense and chewy on the inside.
• 13 i recommend tasting the first one to decide if you want to add more salt or onion, or if you want to make the pancake thicker or thinner.