Korean-Style Vegetable Pancakes

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Korean-Style Vegetable Pancakes

This Korean vegetable pancake combines a mixed vegetable filling and simple pancake batter for crispy, flavorful veggie pancakes.

Ingredients

Pancakes

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup water
• ¾ cup all purpose flour
• ½ cup cabbage, shredded
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 green onions, chopped
• 1 medium carrot, grated
• 1 small zucchini or yellow squash, grated
• Vegetable oil
• ½ teaspoon salt
• pepper to taste

Suggested Dipping Sauce

• 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons rice or white vinegar
• 1 green onion, finely chopped
• ½ teaspoon sesame oil

Directions

Pancakes

1. Crack the eggs in a large bowl and whisk until the yolks and whites are combined. Add the water and flour and whisk until smooth and the consistency of a thin pancake batter (add more water or flour as needed).
2. Shred the cabbage, mince the garlic, chop the green onions, and grate the carrot and squash.
3. Add the cabbage, garlic, carrot, green onions, and squash to the bowl with the batter and season with salt and pepper. Leave to sit for about 10 minutes.
4. Heat a frying pan (skillet) on medium heat and add about a teaspoon of oil.
5. Spoon enough batter for one or two pancakes onto the pan and let the bottoms cook until they are slightly browned. (You can decide the size of the pancakes!)
6. Flip the pancakes to the other side and cook for another 7 minutes (or until brown as well).
7. Cut the pancakes like pizza slices when cool enough to handle.

Dipping Sauce

1. Mix all dipping sauce ingredients together and serve!

Notes

Variations to Try

• Try a delicious alternative to onion: leeks
• Add some other colorful veggies like purple cabbage red bell pepper, green beans, corn or peas

Something to Chew On

• Food historians tell us the history of soup is probably as old as the history of cooking!
• Spice it up! Smell the thyme and bay leaves. Experiment with different herbs and spices.
• Chicken and cheese/dairy are popular choices of protein. Do plants provide protein? Can you name other plant proteins?

Nutritional information is approximate guide only, calculated using an online nutrition calculator. The facts are based on one pancake using one tbsp of mixture. Yields about 12 -15 pancakes.