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Hotteok (Sweet Korean Pancakes)

Name: Hotteok (Sweet Korean Pancakes)
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Korea
Ingredients: 250g Bread flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 150ml Milk; 1 tbsp Sugar; 80g Brown sugar; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 30g Walnuts; As needed Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chewy dough filled with melted brown sugar and nuts — a beloved wintertime Korean street snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

A soft, chewy dough is filled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and crushed nuts, then pan-fried. The gooey brown sugar filling spills out with the first bite. Long lines form at street carts on cold winter days — a classic scene of Korean winter.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Rubbing cold hands together while waiting for a street vendor to hand over a hot hotteok in a paper cup — the first warm, gooey bite thaws you from the inside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Bread flour 250g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Milk 150ml
Sugar 1 tbsp
Brown sugar 80g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Walnuts 30g
Oil for frying As needed

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, milk, and sugar into a dough; once it comes together, let rise in a warm spot for about 1 hour.
Mix the brown sugar, cinnamon, and crushed walnuts to make the filling.
Divide the risen dough into portions, flatten each, fill with the brown sugar mixture, and seal into a ball.
Heat oil in a pan and flatten the filled dough as you cook it.
Cook both sides until golden brown. Eat while hot — the filling stays very hot, so take care.

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