Green Onion Pancakes – Choiceful Rotterdam

This recipe is from one of my friends, enjoy!

I once ate green onion pancakes at my friend’s house when I was in primary school and I still make them regularly. Her mother of Taiwanese origin had made this similar recipe, and it was delicious. And it’s only five ingredients! Based on 3 pancakes (35 min).

Tools you will need

Rolling pin
Mixing bowl
A knife

Ingredients

150g (Wheat) flour
125 ml of boiled water
10 teaspoons of salt
6 stems of spring onion (finely chopped)
4 tablespoons vegetable oil

Put the flour in a bowl and gradually add the water to the flour. Mix until the flour becomes more malleable. Then use 1 hand to knead it. If the dough is still too sticky, add some extra flour (but not too much!) Make a nice ball of the dough and let it rest for 15 minutes with a tea towel over the bowl.
Now we can finely cut our beautiful green onions! Keep them in a small bowl until we can wrap them in the dough.
Sprinkle some flour over a clean surface (table or counter) where you can roll out the dough.
Take the ball of dough and divide into three equal pieces
Now you have three small balls, you can roll them out into a large round pancake that can fit around 2.5 hands.
Brush the rolled pancake with some oil, add the green onion and some salt.
Then roll the dough like a croissant, and finally turn it together (like a cinnamon roll, see image below).
Close the edges and lay the dough on the surface. Carefully squeeze the dough and roll it into a nice thin round pancake.
Repeat this with the remaining two dough balls.
Heat in a frying pan with enough oil in which you bake the pancakes until they are nice and crispy and a bit browned.
Let them bake for about 6 minutes so that they are well done!
It’s perfect to finish it with soy sauce or chili sauce!