After seeing all these different types of street food, you might want to try and make a few because they sound so interesting and yummy. Below are a few of easy recipes for you to make traditional Korean street foods!
Hotteok - Korean Pancake
To make the dough:
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"Sweet Pancakes with Brown Sugar Syrup Filling." (Hotteok) Recipe. Maangchi, 18 Mar. 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/hoddeok>.
- Put 1 cup of lukewarm water into a mixing bowl.
- Add 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, 2 teaspoons of yeast, ½ teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon vegetable oil and then stir it together
- Add 2 cups of all purpose flour and mix it, creating the dough
- Put a lid or plastic wrap on the top of the bowl, enclosing the dough. Leave the dough closed at room temperature for an hour so it will rise.
- After leaving the dough for an hour, knead the dough to get the air bubbles out
- Recover the bowl and let the dough rise an additional 15-20 minutes
- Mix 1/2 cup of brown sugar with 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder, and 2 tablespoons of a type of nut (usually peanuts or walnuts) in a bowl. This is the traditional filling but you can create fillings of your own with things such as cheese.
- Knead the dough again to get out the excess air bubbles
- Put flour on the cutting board and knead it again
- Then cut 8 similarly sized balls from the lump of dough
- Take a ball of dough and flatten it. Then but some of the filing in the center and close the dough to make a ball again. Do this to all the dough balls.
- Use a nonstick pan and put it on medium heat then put some vegetable oil in it.
- Put one ball on the pan and let it heat for about 30 seconds
- When the bottom of the ball is a golden brown color, flip it over with the spatula and then smush the ball down into a pancake form
- Next, cook it for about a minute and then flip it over again and put the heat on low and cook it for a minute.
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"Sweet Pancakes with Brown Sugar Syrup Filling." (Hotteok) Recipe. Maangchi, 18 Mar. 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/hoddeok>.
BBokki Candy - Honeycomb
- Put 1½ tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of white or brown sugar in a bowl and put a pinch of baking soda in another
- Put the sugar in a stainless steel ladle and over medium heat, melt the sugar
- Stir with a spoon while it is heating until it becomes a clear liquid with no lumps in it
- Add the baking soda to the sugar; it will expand and become a light brown creamy color, like the color of peanut butter
- Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar onto a cookie sheet and scrape all the mixture from the ladle onto the cookie sheet
- Put a skewer or lollipop stick on it and then flatten the candy with a flat nonstick object
- Then use a cookie cutter to put a design on it
- Finally, wait a minute for it to cool, and then it is ready to eat!
"Sugar Candy." Ppopgi (Old-fashioned Sugar Candy) Recipe. Maangchi, 26 Nov. 2013. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/ppopgi>.
TTeokbokki - Spicy rice cakes
- Put 4 cups of water in a shallow pot or pan and add 7 large sized dried anchovies (with heads and intestines removed) and a 6 x 8 inch piece of dried kelp
- Boil it for 15 minutes on medium heat
- Mix 1/3 of hot pepper paste, 1 tablespoon hot pepper flakes, and 1 tablespoon sugar in a little bowl
- Take the kelp and anchovies out of the pan and add 1 pound of cylinder shaped rice cakes (usually store bought), the ingredients in the small bowl, 3 green onions that are cut into 3 inch pieces, a half pound of fishcakes, and 2 hard boiled eggs (fishcakes and eggs are optional but if you don't use them you need to add more rice cakes)
- Stir all the ingredients in the pan until the sauce thickens and starts to look shiny. This normally takes about 15 to 20 minutes
Note : If you use frozen store bought rice cakes make sure to thaw them out before cooking.
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"Hot and Spicy Rice Cake." (Tteokbokki) Recipe. Maangchi, 10 Sept. 2007. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/ddukbokkie>.
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"Korean Recipe: A Collection of Authentic Korean Recipes." Korean Recipe: A Collection of Authentic Korean Recipes. Easy Korean
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