Peking Chicken Pancakes, or Chicken Wombok Wraps
Peking chicken pancakes
Ingredients
3 cups plain flour plus extra for dusting (sr will work ok)
1 ½ cup boiling water
1 tbs sesame oil
1/3 cup (80ml) hoisin sauce
1/3 wombuk cut thinly
160g of chicken breast cut thinly
1 red capsicum, thinly sliced
5 spring onions, thinly sliced
Dressing
3 tablespoon rice vinegar (if not rice wine add extra sugar to taste)
2 teaspoon soy sauce
2 teaspoon brown sugar
Method
Sift flour into a medium heatproof bowl, with a pinch of salt. Add boiling water and combine with flour to form soft dough.
Knead on lightly floured surface for about 5 minutes. Wrap in plastic and set aside for 20 minutes.
Unwrap dough and knead for a further 5 minutes. Divide into 8 equal portions. Pat each portion into even-sized rounds.
Brush half the rounds with sesame oil and top with remaining rounds. Roll each stack into a 20cm round.
Defrost chicken, it will be still a bit frozen, slice thinly in this state and combine with Char sui sauce in a bowl, stir to coat, leave 5 to 10 mins
Preheat a non-stick frying pan over low to medium heat. Cook chicken, in batches, for 3 minutes each side or until cooked through. Will brown due to Char sui sauce, this is OK. Transfer to a plate. Cover and set aside for 5 minutes, then coarsely cut up cooked chicken, place in bowl.
Combine vinegar, soy sauce and sugar in a screw-top
Partially cook capsicum, place in bowl.
Cut up spring onions place in a bowl.
Cut up wombuk place in a bowl pour vinegar/soy mix over and mix well, stir a few times before serving.
Heat a medium, non-stick frying pan over high heat. Dry fry pancakes for 45 seconds, or until starting to go brown in places. Flip and cook for a further 30 seconds. Pancakes should be lightly browned, but still pliable.
Place cooked pattie on plate, spread wombuk, cooked chicken, spring onions and cooked capsicum in a rough line, roll up.
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