Chives / Spring Onion Pancake 葱油饼

Its very rewarding to cook with the ingredient that grow in our own garden. My little chives pot progress very well. I took half of it to make pancake which I learnt from Taiwanese friends during my college years. I make extra and store some in the freezer. Like any frozen dough, just remove from the freezer and pan fried in medium heat, just a few minutes, a quick ready homemade breakfast or afternoon tea would be ready! Ingredient:

• 2 cups Plain Flour


• 1 cup Water


• 1/2 tsp Salt


• Salt (to sprinkle on pancake together with chives)


• 5 stalks Chives


• 5 Tbsp Oil (to brush/rub on pancake)


• Oil (frying)

Method:

1. Mixed flour, water, and salt together, knead to form a smooth dough. Cover with wet cloth and rest for ~30 minutes.


2. Clean and cut chives.


3. Devide dough into desire size, depends on the size of frying pan. Roll and flatten the dough, brush/rub a layer of oil and sprinkle some salt and a layer of finely cut chives evenly on the entire dough surface. Roll the dough to long strip and roll the strip from right to left to form a spiral. Flatten the entire spiral and roll into flat pancake.


4. Heat up frying pan with 1 Tbsp of oil and fry the pancake until both side turn golden brown. Serve hot.

Points to highlight:

• For frozen pancake, separate each piece with plastic paper, use a cake board as the base, wrap all pancakes well and store in freezer.


• Dry the "cut chives" and cut as fine as possible。