Hotteok

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Hotteok (??, pronounced 'ho-tok') is a variety of filled Korean pancake, and is a popular street food of Korea.

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Preparation

The dough for hotteok is made from wheat flour, water, milk, sugar, and yeast. The dough is allowed to rise for several hours. Handful-sized balls of this stiff dough are filled with a sweet mixture, which may contain brown sugar, honey, chopped peanuts, and cinnamon. The filled dough is then placed on a greased griddle, and pressed flat into a large circle with a special tool with a stainless steel circle and wooden handle as it cooks.

In Korea, ready-made dry hotteok mix is commercially available in plastic packages. The mix also comes with a filling consisting of brown sugar and ground peanuts or sesame seeds.

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Origin

It is generally believed that hotteok originated from Chinese merchants who immigrated to Korea after the late 19th century. Unlike many Chinese pancakes, which often contain savory meat fillings, hotteok are stuffed with sweet fillings, to suit Koreans' tastes.

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Varieties

The types of hotteok have been changing continuously although many favour the traditional cinnamon and peanut filling. Many variations have developed since the early 21st century, such as green tea hotteok^photo, pink bokbunja hotteok, corn hotteok, and more. Commercial "hotteok" products are developed and sold by companies "Samyang", "Ottogi" and "CJ". The products are designed to be able to cook at home.

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Nutrition

Hotteok is usually eaten during the winter season. Due to its high sugar content, a single hotteok may have as many as 230 calories.

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Phrases using hotteok

The Koreans say, "House of Hotteok (Hotteok-selling store) is burning (???? ???)" with a fussy situation. The origin of this phrase is estimated that the Chinese merchants were considered very noisy in Korea. After their Hotteok-selling store is burnt, the merchants must've talked to each other about the reason of fire, or the accidents, in Chinese tonal language. That might caused Koreans to say "Hotteok-store is burning" in the meaning of fussy, and noisy situation.