Vegan Bunny Elle

Your scraps of vegetables just got a makeover! Use up all your veggie leftovers with this quick, easy, healthy, and delicious vegetable pancake.

If you like Kimchijeon, aka kimchi pancke, you’d love pajeon! Pajeon is a savory Korean pancake featuring scallions (green onions) as the main ingredient. The name comes from the Korean words pa, meaning scallion, and jeon, meaning a pan-fried, battered food.

To add even more flavors and colors, I used thinly shredded rainbow carrots in addition to scallionns and the subtle sweetness they bring to the pancake worked beautifully! Which made me realize pajeon can actually be the perfect fridge cleaning recipe and I can see other veggies working well in this like onions, bell peppers, baby spinach, daikon… as long as the vegetable is not too watery.

Pajeon Korean Vegetable Pancake

Make magic with your leftover scraps of vegetables! This quick and easy savory pancake is the perfect healthy light meal or power snack.

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Ingredients

  

• 8 stalks of scallion
• 1/2 orange carrot
• 1/4 yellow carrot
• 1/4 purple carrot
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon Doenjan fermented soy bean paste
• Avocado oil for cooking

For the dipping sauce

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon coconut amino
• 1 tablespoon chili oil
• 1 teaspoon toasted white sesame seeds

Method

 

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, water, and Doenjang, until very smooth and no lumps left;
2. Wash and trim the scallions if needed to fit your pan, thinly shred the carrots lengthwise;
3. Heat a drizzle of oil in a nonstick pan over medium-high heat, arrange the scallion and carrot all parallel to each other in a flat, thin layer, then slowly drizzle the batter on top of the vegetables evenly;
4. Gently pat with your spatula and keep the rectangle shape of the pancake as it cooks;
5. When the bottom of the pancake is golden brown, carefully flip the pancake and cook the other side, cook for a few minutes until this side is golden crispy as well;
6. Remove from the pan and transfer onto a plate, cut into squares;
7. Mix together all the dipping sauce ingredients;
8. Serve the pancake hot with the sauce on the side, enjoy!

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