Garlic Chive Pancake

부추전[Bu-Chu-Jeon]

Garlic chive pancake used to be my favorite jeon (pancake) as I was growing up. When my mom was making a batch of garlic chive pancakes for dinner, I would often stand by her with a mini bowl of ketchup (for dipping sauce) and a plate anxiously waiting for each pancake to be passed over to the plate when it's cooked. My sisters and I then devoured the toasty, chewy garlic chive pancakes even before dad got home, making only few left for the family dinner.

For 2 servings

flour or Korean pancake mix (3/4 cup)
ice cold water (1/2 cup)
garlic chives (10 stalks)
oil

For Dipping Sauce:
soy sauce (2T)
vinegar (1T)

1.

Mix the Korean pancake mix (3/4 cup) and ice cold water (1/2 cup). Colder the water, more crispier the pancake would get. If Korean pancake mix is not available, use flour instead.

2.

Cut garlic chives about 4-5 inches long.

3.

Add half the garlic chives into the pancake mix.

4.

Glze a skillet with oil and place some of the garlic chives that had not been added to the pancake mix.

5.

Pour the garlic chive pancake mix onto the skillet.

6.

Place rest of the garlic chives on top. This step (and Step 4) help garlic chives visible from the pancake.

7.

Fry both sides of the pancake until they turn golden and crispy.