Korean Vegetable Pancake (Jeon)

Ingredients

Jeon Vegetable Pancakes

• 2 c yellow summer squash or zucchini (washed, deseeded, and grated)
• 1 ½ c carrots (peeled and grated)
• 2 c yellow potatoes (peeled and grated)
• 3/4 cup green onions (finely diced, about 4 onions )
• 3/4 cup orange or red sweet pepper (finely diced, about 1 pepper )
• 2 cup all-purpose unbleached flour
• 1 large egg (beaten)
• ¾ - 1 cup water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• vegetable oil or olive oil (for frying)
• sesame oil (for frying)

Spicy Soy Dipping Sauce

• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp white onion (finely chopped)
• 2 cloves garlic (finely diced)
• 1 green jalapeno pepper (about 2 inches long, sliced, leave in seeds)

Instructions

Jeon Vegetable Pancakes

• Place all vegetable in an exceedingly giant bowl. (Use s a kitchen appliance to grate the squash, carrot and potatoes, it makes the direction a lot of quicker.)

• Stir flour into vegetables till well distributed.

• Add egg and ¾ cup water, stir. If batter is extremely stiff add remaining ¼ cup of water.

• Stir in salt and pepper

• Heat ½ tbsp oil or oil in an exceedingly pan and swirl to coat pan bottom. Place ¼ cup of batter in pan and use wood spoon or spatula to unfold till skinny and equally distributed (about ¼ inch).

• Fry battercake till golden and tender, victimisation clean spatula to lift battercake and permit oil to achieve to a lower place (this takes concerning 3-5 minutes).

• Flip battercake, when two minutes drizzle atiny low quantity of oil (1/8 tsp) round the pan at the skin fringe of the battercake. Again, use a spatula to permit the oil to achieve utterly underneath the battercake. make certain that the battercake is tender within the center and extremely tender on the skin.

• take away battercake from pan and place on a plate coated with a towel to soak up excess oil.

• Continue till all pancakes square measure grilled. Add additional oil or oil between batches as required.

Spicy Soy Dipping Sauce

• mix soy, rice vinegar, white onion, garlic, sliced chilly in an exceedingly little bowl. Stir to mix. Let ingredients sit along whereas you cook the pancakes or for many hours, if doable.