Korean
Gamja-jeon (Potato Pancake)
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Gamja-jeon (Potato Pancake) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Grate the potatoes and onion together and let sit 5 minutes, then squeeze out as much liquid as you can, keeping the starch that settles at the bottom of the liquid and discarding the water on top.
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Mix the starch back into the grated potato with the salt.
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Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat and spread the potato mixture into a thin, even round.
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Fry 5 minutes per side, pressing occasionally, until deeply golden and crisp.
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Slice into wedges and serve with the soy sauce and rice vinegar whisked together as a dip.
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Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gamja-jeon (Potato Pancake), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gamja-jeon (Potato Pancake) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 260 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 36 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 770 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Gamja-jeon (Potato Pancake) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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