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5 from 2 votes

Perfect Gamja Jeon - Korean Potato Pancakes!

Ingredients

  • 4 Medium-Sized Potatoes (Each, roughly size of your palm)
  • ½ Onion
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Cup Potato Starch

Instructions

Prep & Grate Potatoes

  • Peel 4 Potatoes. Place them into a bowl of cold water after you peel each one - keeping them in water will keep from oxidizing and changing colors.
  • Now, we highly recommend using a hand-grater (it will produce much better chewing texture than mixing in a blender). Take one potato and grate it through the hand grate. After grating the 1st potato, grate-in ½ an onion. The onion mixture will prevent the batter potatoes from oxidizing (and turning grey in color).
  • Continue grating-in the rest of the potatoes. Now, stir the grated potato and onion mixture together evenly.
  • Season the pancake mixture with 1 teaspoon of salt! (Note: You can add another 1 teaspoon(!) of salt if you will not dip in soy sauce later.) We will under-season the pancakes as it's usually dipped into a soy sauce dip when eating.
  • Finally, add-in 1 Cup of Potato Starch Powder into the batter. Mix it in evenly - it's ready now for pan-frying!

Make Potato Pancakes

  • Pour-in a few drizzles of vegetable oil into a frying pan. (When making jeon, it's okay to be generous with the oil). Place on medium-low heat.
  • When oil gets hot, add-in a soup ladle's worth of pancake mix. Let it cook on one side for a few minutes until it gets light golden brown. Flip the pancake over and let it cook on the other side until it gets a light-browning.
  • If you made the perilla noodles, you can dip the gamja jeon into the leftover sauce. Otherwise, you can make a simple soy sauce dip: 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce + a drizzle of Vinegar + a few drops of water.
  • Bon Appetit!