Also known as: Cong You Bing, Green Onion Pancake, Spring Onion Pancake
About this dish
A flaky, layered flatbread laced with chopped spring onion, pan-fried until crisp.
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Ingredients
🌾2 cups flour
💧3/4 cup hot water
🧅1 cup spring onion, finely chopped
🫒3 tbsp oil, plus more for frying
🧂Salt to taste
Method
Serves 4
1
Mix flour with hot water to form a dough; knead until smooth and rest for 30 minutes.
2
Roll the dough into a thin rectangle, brush with oil, and sprinkle with spring onion and salt.
3
Roll the dough up into a log, then coil it into a spiral and flatten into a disc.
4
Rest the dough again for 10 minutes.
5
Pan-fry in a generously oiled pan over medium heat until golden and crisp on both sides.
6
Cut into wedges and serve warm.
✓ What Makes it Authentic
Scallion pancakes are a well-known Chinese street food and home snack, made by rolling oiled dough with scallions into layers before pan-frying to create a crisp, flaky texture.
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