Learn to Make Water Pancakes at Home: Bottom is Golden and Crispy, Inside is Soft and Fluffy, Even Tastier Than Store-Bought
OneWater Pancakes and Dough
Add yeast powder to a bowl of warm water and stir until dissolved. Add 1 pound of flour with 3 to 5 grams of yeast, then pour the dissolved yeast water into the dough bowl and mix. Add water in small amounts while stirring with a chopstick, when the flour is mixed into a, knead the dough to form. When making this water pancake, the dough should be slightly softer. After kneading the dough, cover it with plastic wrap and let it ferment to twice its original size.
Water Pancakes and Dough
TwoWater Pancake Filling
Today we are making pork floss filling water pancakes. Prepare a small piece of pork belly, cut the meat into strips and then cut it into small pieces. Put the meat into a meat grinder and grind it. Pour the ground meat filling into a bowl, add chopped ginger, add salt, chicken broth, soy sauce, and oil. Finally, add and mix evenly
Water Pancake Filling
Mix the meat filling and place it aside to marinate for a while. Soak and chop the noodles in advance. Prepare two bunches of scallions, all chopped into scallion flakes. Heat oil in a pot, when the oil is slightly hot, add peppercorns, star anise, and fragrant leaves, fry until the inside fragrance is released, remove the spices when they are dry, then add a spoonful of thirteen spices into the oil and stir-fry over a small fire, add the chopped noodles and stir-fry evenly, then add soy sauce and oil and stir-fry evenly, finally pour the noodles into the bowl and pour in the ground meat and scallions and mix evenly. The pork floss filling for water pancakes is ready
Water Pancake Filling
ThreeWater Pancake Dough Making and Filling
The dough has fermented at this point. Add a spoonful of baking soda and knead it evenly into the dough. You must knead it evenly again to make it smooth. Divide the dough into small portions, cut it into strips of equal size, and use your hands to shape it. Use a rolling pin to roll it into skin with a thin edge and a thick center. Directly wrap it with the meat filling and start to pinch it
Water Pancake Dough Making and Filling
FourFrying Water Pancakes
Brush a layer of oil in a flat pan. When the oil is slightly hot, put the water pancakes one by one into the pan. Cover the pan with a lid over a small flame, and fry until the bottom is slightly yellow. Add starch slurry with a ratio of 1:10 in the pot, and continue to cover the lid over a small flame for 5 to 6 minutes until the starch slurry dries up. Slowly lift the lid to prevent shrinkage. Continue frying until the bottom is slightly yellowish when it can be taken out.
Water Pancake Dough Making and Filling
