Korean Jeon (전)
Contributed by: Lena Chng
As I start to host first day of Chinese New Year (CNY) lunch for immediate family in recent years, I wanted to introduce a different type of new year cuisine to my parents and yet suit the taste of my younger sister and son who is into everything Korean hence this Korean fritter dish.
Though it may not be a traditional CNY dish, Koreans do usher in the new year with dishes of meaning to their tradition.
I am hoping to relief my aged mum from too much cooking and creating a new traditional dish for my family.
Portion: 4 pax (12 skewers)
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
Skewer ingredient:
• 1 big carrot
• 2 big potatoes
• 3 big oyster mushroom
• 300 – 400g meat (pork, chicken or beef)
Coating ingredients:
• 2 eggs
• 300g Korean pancake flour
• 24 satay sticks (medium or long length)
Note: Ingredients can be replaced with any vegetable of your choice. If you do not want to make skewers, can cut zucchini into rounds (about 0.5cm) and pan-fry it.
Method
1. Cut carrot, potatoes, and oyster mushrooms into 6cm strips and about 1cm thick.
2. Cut meat into 12 strips.
3. Soak satay sticks in water to soften and to prevent the sticks from burning.
4. Parboil carrots and potato strips to make it easier to skewer but not too soft else it will break easily.
5. Season meat lightly with pepper, salt or soya sauce if preferred.
6. Skewer carrot, meat, potato, oyster mushroom into 2 sticks.
7. Coat the skewered ingredients with flour on both sides, then coat with egg. Alternatively, you may beat the egg into the bowl of flour and coat directly.
8. Heat a medium pan with oil and pan-fry on low flame, flipping both sides till fully cooked.
9. Serve with some Korean sauce if preferred.
Helpful Tips
Need patience to pan-fry as it has to be done on low heat for food to be cook and not burn. Hard work but easy to bite!
Try it with different variety of vegetables or meat, it can be a single pork belly, mushroom with meat patty etc.
It is a dish Koreans only cook during big festivals because it is time consuming.
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