Drop the dough into the oil in a skillet, gently press down with a greased
hotteok press or spatula.
This three - hour adventure, geared toward the city's west side, includes the best barbecue joint in town, plus markets brimming
with hotteok (sweet pancakes with syrup), chapssal (fried rice doughnuts) and cloudy rice beer.
I'm putting a savory spin
on hotteok by making a strawberry and goat cheese filling.
Because in just a couple of minutes, I'm sharing my version of sweet cinnamon
sugar hotteok.
With my next favourite meal being Bibimbap, followed by
sweet hotteok.
I went to the
same hotteok place in Namdaemun markets as much as I could during my stay, last July.
With this recipe, I'm taking you with me to relive one of the best foodporn moments in Korea: The moment we tried our first sweet 호떡 (
hotteok / hoddeok).
I made these using
the hotteok press I bought in Seoul!
Remove
the hotteok from the oil and drain the extra oil over a cookie rack.
Love at first bite, I had to ask the vendor owner in Insadong how he made
his hotteok so crispy and chewy.
Press the dough with
a hotteok press if you have one, or use a spatula to flatten down gently.
Carefully turn
the hotteok to the other side and fry for another 2 minutes or so.
They both are in the tourist attraction area, so, if you are traveling in Seoul, don't miss out on
their hotteoks.
Unfortunately
these hotteoks will harden once they cool down and lose their crisp texture, so enjoy them while they are hot.
Your hotteok will burn on the outside but the inside will remain raw.
I posted the original plain
hotteok recipe a while ago, and today I want to introduce you to another kind: hotteok made with sweet rice and corn flour in the dough.
Take
the hotteok out of the oil and place it on a cookie rack to drain.
Of course he wouldn't tell me his secret of making them so addictive, but I learned that he used 3 different types of flour to create
his hotteok.
I also ate an amazing fried vegetable pancake (
hotteok) from a street vendor for only KRW 1,000 which is approximately $ 1.