🇰🇷 How to Make Hotteok

Craving Hotteok? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Hotteok at home, in about 90 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups (250g) flour + 1 tsp instant yeast + 1 tbsp sugar + ½ tsp salt
• ¾ cup warm milk (comfortably warm, not hot)
• 1 tbsp oil, plus more for frying
• Filling: ⅓ cup brown sugar + 1 tsp cinnamon + 2 tbsp crushed walnuts or peanuts

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Mix flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk and oil into a soft, sticky dough. Knead 3 min, cover, and let it rise 1 hour until doubled.
2. Mix the filling. Oil your hands — the dough is sticky and this is normal, not a mistake.
3. Divide into 8 balls. Flatten one in your palm, add a heaping tablespoon of filling, and pinch the edges shut like a dumpling. Seal well or the sugar lava escapes.
4. Heat 3 tbsp oil in a pan on medium. Place a ball seam-side DOWN, wait 30 seconds, then press it flat with a spatula (a hotteok press if you're fancy).
5. Fry 2–3 min per side until deep golden. Lower the heat if they brown too fast — the sugar inside needs time to melt.
6. Cool 2 minutes before biting. The filling is genuinely molten. Everyone ignores this warning exactly once.