''Buchimgae'' (), or Korean pancake, refers broadly to any type of pan-fried ingredients soaked in egg or a batter mixed with other ingredients.
More specifically, it is a dish made by pan-frying a thick batter mixed with egg and other ingredients until a thin flat
pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...
-shaped
fritter
A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables or other ingredients which have been Batter (cooking), battered or breading, breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-frying, deep-fried. Fritters ar ...
is formed.
Types
Buchimgae
* ''hobak-buchimgae'' () –
Korean zucchini pancake
* ''
kimchi-buchimgae'' () –
kimchi pancake
* ''
memil-buchimgae'' () –
buckwheat pancake
* some varieties of ''
pajeon'' () –
scallion pancake
* some varieties of ''buchu-jeon'' () –
garlic chive pancake
Jeon
''
Jeon'' is a dish made by frying a mixture of seasoned sliced or minced fish, meat, and vegetables in oil. Ingredients are coated with wheat flour prior to pan-frying the mixture in oil.
Bindae-tteok
''Bindae-tteok'' is a dish made by grinding soaked mung beans, adding vegetables and meat, and pan-frying until the mixture has attained a round and flat shape. No flour or egg is added in bindae-tteok.
Jangtteok
''Jangtteok'' is a dish made by adding wheat flour to
gochujang
''Gochujang'' (, from Korean: , ) or red chili paste
* is a savory, sweet, and spicy fermented condiment popular in Korean cooking. It is made from gochu-garu (chili powder), glutinous rice, ''meju'' (fermented soybean) powder, ''yeotgireum'' ...
or ''
doenjang'' (soybean paste). Vegetables, such as
Java waterdropworts or
scallions, are added and the mixture pan-fried in oil into a thin flat pancake.
Gallery
File:Korea-Jeongseon-Various Korean pancakes (jeon)-01.jpg, Various ''buchimgae''
File:Aehobak-buchimgae.jpg, '' Aehobak-buchimgae'' (Korean zucchini pancake)
File:Korean pancake-Bindaetteok-02.jpg, '' Bindae-tteok'' (mung bean pancake)
File:Korean pancake-Pajeon-05.jpg, ''Buchimgae''-type '' pajeon'' (scallion pancake)
File:Daseulgi-buchimgae.jpg, '' Daseulgi-buchimgae'' (freshwater snail pancake)
File:Gamja-buchu-buchimgae.jpg, '' Gamja-buchu
''Agathosma'' is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include Buchu, Boegoe, Bucco, Bookoo and Diosma. '' Buchu'' formally denotes two herbal species, prized ...
-buchimgae'' (potato and garlic chives buchimgae)
File:Jeonbok-chamnamul-buchimgae 3.jpg, '' Jeonbok- chamnamul-buchimgae'' (abalone and pimpinella pancake)
File:Kimchibuchimgae (kimchi pancake).jpg, '' Kimchi-buchimgae'' (kimchi pancake)
File:Korean buckwheat pancake-Memiljeon-01.jpg, '' Memil-buchimgae'' (buckwheat pancake)
File:Jeonbyeong 2.jpg, Stuffed ''mil-jeonbyeong'' (wheat pancake)
File:오징어 부침개.jpg, '' Squid-buchimgae'' (squid pancake)
See also
*
Bánh xèo
''Bánh xèo'' (, ) is a crispy, stuffed rice pancake popular in Vietnam. The name refers to the sound (from ''xèo'' – 'sizzling') the rice batter makes when it is poured into the hot skillet. It is a savoury fried pancake made of rice flour, ...
*
Okonomiyaki
References
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Korean cuisine
Fritters