Korean

Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake)

Name: Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 2 cups kimchi; 1 cup all-purpose flour; 3/4 cup water; 1 eggs; 2 scallions; 3 tbsp cooking oil; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp rice vinegar

Minji @minji_bakes

Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi 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.

25 min Medium Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups kimchi
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup water
1 eggs
2 scallions
3 tbsp cooking oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp rice vinegar

How to cook it

Chop the kimchi into small pieces and slice the scallions into short lengths.
Whisk the flour, water, egg, and a splash of the kimchi's brine into a thin batter.
Fold the kimchi and scallions into the batter.
Heat a generous pool of oil in a skillet over medium heat and ladle in the batter, spreading it thin.
Fry 4 minutes per side, pressing occasionally, until deeply golden and crisp at the edges.
Slice into wedges and serve with the soy sauce and rice vinegar whisked together as a dip.

Watch how to cook Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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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 Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Aehobak-guk (Clear Zucchini Soup)
  
  18 min
What it is eaten with
- Boribap (Barley Rice)
  
  35 min
The sharp little thing
- Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
  
  60 min
- Buchu-muchim (Seasoned Garlic Chives)
  
  10 min

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. Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake) carries gluten, shellfish, eggs, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 5 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi Pancake)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Shellfish	Yes	Beef Bibimbap
Eggs	Yes	Beef Bulgogi
Soy	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Fish	Yes	Beef Bibimbap
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: 230 kcal
Protein: 5 g
Carbs: 25 g
Fat: 12 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 810 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi 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.