Don't let the name fool you, because these are not the pancakes your grand ma ma made. These little envelopes of yumminess are very versatile and are excellent for left overs, breakfast, desserst, or dinner. It is up to you what you fill them with. These are also great to make ahead of time and have in the freezer waiting for what ever quick meal idea jumps into your head. Here are some yummy things you can put in them.
1. Sauteed Apples and cinnamon.
2. Scrambled Eggs with cheese.
3. Left Over Dirty Rice.
4. Left over Meat Balls from the Spaghetti and even the noodles with sauce. My hubby likes this one.
5. Tuna salad.
6. Chicken Stir fry.
7. Left over meat dish.
Basically if it sounds good put it in.
METHOD OF PREPARATION
2 Cups of All purpose Flour.
1 Cup of Boiling Water with two Tablespoons extra.
Toasted Sesame Seed oil or any oil with do. But the Toasted Sesame oil really adds flavor.
FIRST: MIXING
Put flour in a mixing bowl and bring water to a good boil. Add the boiling water to flour a little at a time. Do not use your hands to mix, but rather use the back of a spoon to incorporate water and flour. Add some more water and mix in. If there is some water left over that is fine. A rough dough should form. The dough should not be dry, but moist and not to wet. If the dough is wet add more flour. Touch with your finger to see if it has cooled down enough to touch. If it has knead the dough and cover to rest for about 20 minutes, however resting the dough is optional.
SECOND: FORMING
Take your dough ball and cut it in half and cut again to make four equal pieces. Leave one out and put the rest in a covered bowl. Take your dough piece and think of making a snake. Roll it out on a floured surface until it has the thickness of two of your fingers or a little bigger and is about 11 to 12 inches long. This is not mandatory, if yours come out shorter it's okay. Next cut the rope into about 1 1/2 inches pieces. About the length of the end of your finger to the knuckle. Take each piece and squish it by the ends into a small disk, do this with the rest. Flour the cutting surface if need be. The dough might be a little tacky so keep flour near by for dredging.
Note: If your little round is too small add more dough to it. Too big take away some dough. If you make a blooper mash it up and redo it.
THIRD: ROLLING
Preheat a pan on the stove top on low for 4 minutes.
Also have a plate covered with a plastic bag ready to keep the Mandarin Pancakes warm.
Take the rounds and place two side by side that look equal in size or stack them on top of each other.
First take one and roll it out into a two in disk. Dredge with flour when needed. Take the second round and do the exact same thing. Put one drop of Sesame Seed oil on one two inch round. Take your finger and rub the oil all over the 2 inch round until it is covered completely with oil. Place the other 2 inch round on top of the round with oil. So now you have one on top of the other. Take your fingers and press them together gently before rolling it. This keeps it from slipping. Now roll it into about a 4 inch disk. Very carefully lift it up and place it in the pan. Shake the pan to keep it from sticking or rotate the disk with your finger. Find out what works best for you. As soon as you see brown spots appear on your pancake turn it over and cook until brown spot appear again. Remove from pan. Now here is the fun part. Very Carefully peel the to pancakes apart. and fold like in the picture above. If they're too hot, set them aside for a while before you peel them apart. Now if they don't peel apart and stick, this means there was not enough oil used.
Repeat this method with the rest of the dough.
FORTH: REHEATING.
Cold Mandarin Pancakes should be placed on a plate with a little sprinkle of water on them covered and steamed in the Microwave for 25 seconds. OVEN METHOD: Put into a folded foil bag sprinkled with water and put in the oven at the lowest temp and steamed for about 5 minutes or more.
Be sure to check both, if not enough water was sprinkled on.
SIXTH: THAWING OUT.
Take out of freezer. Do not sprinkle with water. Put in foil bag and follow oven methods above. Or Put in a bag or a microwave safe container that is covered and pulse for 25 seconds at a time. Until steamed just right.
SEVEN: ENJOY
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