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Green onion pancake

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Green onion pancake (蔥油餅) is a Chinese snack consisting of a non-leavened salty flatbread infused with oil and minced scallions (green onions). Unlike a true pancake, it is made from dough instead of batter (cooking)|batter, similar to an Indian paratha.
General recipe

Here is the rough outline for creating green onion pancakes:

  • For chewy pancakes, add warm or hot water with flour to create the dough. For crispy pancakes, use cold water to create the dough.


  • Take a piece of the dough and flatten it out into a pancake.


  • Smear the preferred form of grease onto the flattened dough. This could include olive oil, corn oil, beef fat, lard, bacon bits, or butter. Sprinkle chopped up scallions and salt onto the flattened dough.


  • Roll up the flattened dough into the shape of a snake.


  • Reshape the "snake" into a coil. The dough should now resemble an unbaked cinnamon roll.


  • Flatten up the coil into a pancake.


  • Pan fry the pancake with oil. Both sides of the pancake need to be golden brown.


  • Place the fried pancake on a plate covered with a paper towel to cool the pancake and to drain the grease.
Variations and innovations

One could substitute the green onions with another topping of choice such as corn and diced bell peppers. Sesame seeds are sometimes added with the green onions. There is actually a Chinese dessert called red bean pancakes (豆沙餅) where the green onions and salt are replaced with a sweet red bean paste.

Another method to cook green onion pancakes is to fry them with eggs coated on one side. There is another Chinese snack called egg pancake (蛋餅), which is almost identical to the green onion pancake except that the dough of the egg pancake is thinner and chewier.

One more variation involves leavening the dough and not flattening up the coil into a pancake. The coil is then fried or baked into a bread.

In North America, the pancakes are often served with hot chili sauce or Vietnamese dipping sauce.

Category:Chinese cuisine
Category:Pancakes
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Last Modified:   2005-11-07


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