Hotteok

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Hotteok

Korean name

Hangul	호떡
Hanja	none
Revised Romanization	ho ddeok
McCune-Reischauer	ho ttŏk

Ho-tteok is a variety of filled Korean pancake, and is a popular street food of South Korea. It is usually eaten during the winter season.

1 Preparation
2 Origin
3 Varieties
4 Nutrition
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Preparation

The dough for hotteok is made from wheat flour, water, milk, sugar, and yeast. The dough is allowed to rise for several hours. Handful-sized lumps of dough (which must be stiff enough for this purpose) are then filled by wrapping around a sweet filling, which may contain brown sugar, honey, chopped peanuts, and/or cinnamon. The filled lumps of dough are then placed on a greased griddle, and a tool with a stainless steel circle and wooden handle is used to press and flatten the filled dough into a large circle while it is cooked.

In South Korea, ready-made dry hotteok mix is commercially available in plastic packages. The mix also comes with a filling consisting of brown sugar and ground peanuts or sesame seeds.

[edit] Origin

Hotteok, showing filling

It is believed that ho-tteok originated from Chinese merchants who immigrated to Korea after the late 19th century. Unlike many Chinese pancakes, which often contain savory meat fillings, ho-tteok are stuffed with sweet fillings, to suit Koreans' tastes.

[edit] Varieties

The types of hotteok have been changing continuously. In recent years, however, new variations have developed - one of them is the well-being hotteok. Its dough contains green tea powder so it becomes greenish after baking.^photo Another variety is pink hotteok. Its dough contains added berries, such as Rubus coreanus (a raspberry-like berry that is also used to make Korean berry wine).^{[citation needed]}^{[original research?]}

[edit] Nutrition

Hotteok is usually eaten during the winter season but it is not recommended to overindulge due its high sugar content; a single hotteok may have as many as 230 calories.^[1]