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    Chinese Egg Pancake

    Last Modified: October 9, 2022 by Elaine| 4 Comments

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    Chinese stuffed egg pancake is a famous street food in China. Usually brushed with chili sauce or sweet bean paste and stuffed egg and lettuce leaves, not famous, but it should be a dish worth trying.

    Chinese egg pancake

    Again, I did not know how to name this dish!!!! The Chinese name of this pancake is “鸡蛋灌饼” literally mean pancake stuffed with egg. The purpose of stuffing egg inside the pancake is to add some aroma flavor inside the pancake and at the same time avoid taste influence of the past brushed on the surface. Just take one bite; you can feel how the multilayer tastes are so satisfying.

    You will meet the chewy pancake, savory egg omelet and then paste and fresh lettuce leaves.The secret of this pancake is the inner mixture made if flour and large amount of oil. When heating, it will form bubbles on the pancake thus providing an entrees of the whisked egg liquid. In most cases, it is served as a breakfast with soy milk or Chinese congee. You can also serve it with any swarm soups. In China, it is brushed with sweet bean paste, which might be difficult to find outside China. You can use other savory paste to replace for example I have tried with tomato paste and sweet chili sauce. They all turn out great.

    Chinese egg pancake

    Prepare all the ingredients.

    Chinese egg pancake

    Brush some oil on your board, knead the dough prepared in step 1 for another 4 to 5 minutes and then shape it into a long log. Then cut the log into 8 or 6 equal portions. Take one portion out, roll it out to a long piece. Brush some inner mixture on the surface and then roll the long piece up. Flatten with your hand gently. And roll out to a larger round pancake.

    Chinese egg pancake

    Heat up a pan, and fry one side the pancake until slightly brown over slow fire and then you will see some bubbles after around 1 or 2 minutes. Poke the bubbles with one hand and then pour some egg liquid in with the other hand. In this step, if you are not skilled enough, turn off the fire otherwise the pancake might be burnt. Turn the pancake over and fry for around another half minutes.

    Chinese egg pancake

    Chinese Egg Pancake

    Elaine
    Chinese stuffed egg pancake-perfect breakfast idea you should never miss.
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    Prep Time 20 mins
    Cook Time 20 mins
    Total Time 40 mins
    Course Breakfast, staple food
    Cuisine Chinese
    Servings 10 Making around 10 pancakes
    Calories 94 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 150 g all-purpose flour
    • 100 g boiling hot water
    • 2 middle size eggs
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • Lettuce leaves as needed
    • Chili sauce or other paste for brushing

    For the inner mixture

    • 30 g all-purpose flour
    • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

    Instructions
     

    • Melt salt with water and then slowly stir the water into the dough bowl with flour. Stir the flour in the process. Set aside to cool down.
    • Grasp everything together and knead the dough until smooth. Reset for around 30 minutes. To make the inner mixture, mix oil and all-purpose flour in a small bowl. Set aside. Whisk the egg and wash the lettuce leaves. Brush some oil on your board, knead the dough prepared in step 1 for another 4 to 5 minutes and then shape it into a long log. Then cut the log into 8 or 6 equal portions. Take one portion out, roll it out to a long piece. Brush some inner mixture on the surface and then roll the long piece up. Flatten with your hand gently and then roll out to a large round wrapper.
    • Heat up a pan, and fry one side the pancake until slightly brown over slow fire and then you will see some bubbles after around 1 or 2 minutes. Poke the bubbles with one hand and then pour some egg liquid in with the other hand. In this step, if you are not skilled enough, turn off the fire otherwise the pancake might be burnt. Turn the pancake over and fry for around another half minutes. Repeat the above steps and make all the pancakes. Transfer out, brush some paste or chili sauce, and roll it up with lettuce leaves.

    Notes

    The Nutrition Facts is based on each single pancake.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 94kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 3gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 250mgPotassium: 32mgVitamin A: 140IUVitamin C: 0.2mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg
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    Chinese egg pancake

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    1. Nagi {RecipeTin Eats}

      December 10, 2014 at 5:55 am

      I've never seen this before. Waaa!! How did I miss this when I was in China! I went a little mad trying to taste test every single street food I came across! I'm really interested - it's just served with lettuce leaves inside??

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      • Christine

        December 13, 2014 at 7:10 am

        We get it served with Chinese bacon, hot dogs, and a fried egg, brushed with a little sauce (I don't actually know the names but they look/taste similar to sweet and sour, spicy red, teriyaki type)...They are everywhere right now:)

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        • Elaine Luo

          December 15, 2014 at 1:07 am

          Hi Christine,
          Yes, there is another street food named as 煎饼果子 where we add Chinese bacon, hot doges and fried eggs. It is quite yummy too. The traditional version of this one uses lettuce leaves in addition to the brushed sauce and egg inside.

          Reply
      • Elaine Luo

        December 15, 2014 at 1:10 am

        Hi Nagi,
        For traditional version of this pancake, we use lettuce leaves only because we already have egg stuffed inside and brushed sauce. And this is the most common version on the street. But surely you can have your own creations. I have seen one restaurant offering this with avocado even chocolate.

        Reply

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