Chung yau Bang

Name: Chung yau Bang
Yield: 18 to 20 pancakes
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 cups scallions, ends discarded, washed, dried, and chopped finely; 8 ounces hot water (plus another ½ ounce in reserve, if needed); 1 cup vegetable shortening (Crisco preferred); 8 tablespoons peanut oil, for frying; 3 cups flour (Pillsbury’s Best All-Purpose Enriched Bleached preferred); 1¾ teaspoons sugar; 1¾ teaspoons salt

Scallion Pancakes

Preparation info

18 to 20
pancakes

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Dim Sum Book

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1982

About

Scallion pancakes are a very special Shanghai dim sum. The Cantonese have nothing to compare with it. When the Cantonese talk about dim sum, such delicate preparations as siu mai and har gau come to mind. But to somebody from Shanghai, dim sum is the lusty and rich scallion pancake.

Ingredients

1 cup vegetable shortening (Crisco preferred)
3 cups scallions, ends discarded, washed, dried, and chopped finely

Asia
China
Starter
Vegan

Method

To prepare filling

In a bowl, combine shortening, scallions, salt, and sugar and mix thoroughly into a paste. Reserve in refrigerator.

To prepare dough

Mound flour onto work surface. Make a well and pour the hot water in with one hand, using fingers of the other hand to mix. Wh