They are also one of the favourite snacks of the members of BTS, who actually posted some selcas on Weverse while eating them just some days ago (you can see the pics at the end of the article).
The dough is prepared with a mix of flours (white flour and rice flour), milk or water and a little else, while the most typical filling is is done with sugar, nuts and cinnamon (even though there is a big variety). Once they are cooked on the grill by street vendors hotteoks are folded and put in glasses or specific triangular pieces of papers, so that the clients won’t hurt themselves with the hot filling.
I must admit that the hotteoks have been pretty easy to prepare and really tasty, so much so that I decided to create even a savory variant (which will be on the blog soon)!
Patrizia
Sweet Hotteoks (Korean filled pancakes)
Category: Desserts
Ingredients for dough of 10-12 Hotteoks:
260 g of milk
10 g of yeast
1 spoon of sugar
1 lite spoon of salt
380 g of flour
Ingredients for the filling:
150 g of sugar
6-7 nuts
20 almonds
1 little spoon of cinnamon
Other ingredients:
A little of oil to fry
Process:
Warm the milk a little, add the sugar and the yeast in little pieces. Mix well and let it rest for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, in a big bowl put the flour and the salt and mix it.
Create a little hole in the middle of the flour and salt mix and pour the milk sugar and yeast mixture. With a wooden spoon work the mixture, until all the flour is incorporated and you have smooth dough (it will take a few minutes).
Cover the bowl with transparent film and let it rise, in the turned off oven, for 2-3 hours (it depends on the temperature outside).
While you wait open the nuts and prepare the filling, simply mix in little bowl the sugar, the crumbled nuts and almonds and the cinnamon. Keep it for later.
Once the dough has risen, take it and with the hands with a little flour on them begin to make little pieces of about 50 g each.
On a floured table, one at a time spread with your fingers the little dough pieces, to create little disks, be careful to not make them too thin, about 10 cm of diameter.
Put 3 little spoons of filling we prepared earlier in the center, carefully, ford the edges of the disk toward the center and close the dough around the filling, creating a ball.
Put the oil in a no stick pan and wait till it’s hot.
Lay down the ball on the pan and let it cook on medium flame. Once the bottom part is golden, turn it upside down and – with a cooking spatula – press down on the ball until it becomes the classic pancake shape.
Repeat the process until you have cooked all the Sweet Hotteoks.
Before taking a bite let it rest for a while because the filling tends to be extremely hot and you might burn yourself!
Difficulty: low
Preparation time: about 30 minutes + rising time
Cooking time: 5-6 minutes for every Hotteok
Tips: I prepared them with the classic filling but, if you want, you can use other tips of nuts o, for a more western version, pieces of chocolate or spreadable – like Nutella – alone or mixed with chopped hazelnuts, almonds, etc.
Here you can also see both V and Jimin eating them in a less recent occasion.
