Bungeoppang (Korean Fish Fashioned Pastry)

Bungeoppang is a Korean title for Japanese taiyaki, a fish fashioned pastry that is seriously standard in winter streets of Korea. With this recipe, you can now arrangement it at home! Tidy easy!

Bungeoppang (붕어빵) is my current childhood snack. After I was younger, it’s possible you’ll possibly with out distress scrutinize a cart or van promoting it on the road in Korea throughout winter.

If I gave the vendor 1000 won (about AUD $1) then I may possibly possibly possibly procure 5 bungeoppang wrapped in a beige colored paper procure. These fish were as mountainous as my hand.

Even though, my sister in Korea is telling me that right now time it’s possible you’ll possibly even procure 2 medium sized bungeoppang for 1000 won or 3 gold fish dimension bungeopang for 1000 won.

The fish fashioned pastry are usually stuffed with something inside. Motivate within the days (I sound so stale by asserting this! Lol), the supreme available fillings were sweetened red bean paste. However, right now time, you hang extra selections.

As an illustration, custard is a standard likelihood. Critically, have to you’re now not at likelihood of the asian vogue sweets (e.g. red bean paste), cherish my husband and daughter, it’s possible you’ll possibly if truth be told capture having chocolate, Nutella, peanut butter and so forth. as a filling.

Even though, cooking is much less advanced have to you exercise a extra tough filling likelihood. (e.g. red bean paste is much less advanced than runny custard for cooking).

To cook dinner bungeoppang, it’s wanted to hang a fish fashioned mould / pan, cherish this one.

As these kind of pans are to be prone on a gasoline range, have to you hang an electrical or induction cooktop, it’s possible you’ll possibly moreover need a conveyable gasoline range cherish me.

Anyway, mountainous formative years and puny formative years every esteem this special contend with at our role. I’m hoping you procure pleasure from making handmade bungeoppang!

P.S. Whenever you cherished this present day’s recipe, it’s possible you’ll possibly moreover want to strive these standard Korean road meals apart from. Korean sweet pancake (Hotteok) and Korean sweet rice flour donuts (Chapssal Donuts).

Substances for Bungeoppang (6 to 7 servings)

Batter

• 1 cup (125 g / 4.4 oz.) ghastly flour or cake flour (*scrutinize existing), sifted
• 2 tsp baking powder, sifted
• 1/4 tsp elegant sea salt
• 175 ml milk or water
• 3 Tbsp castor sugar
• 1 Tbsp melted butter
• 1 egg

Filling alternatives (Employ about 1 Tbsp of filling per fish)

• sweetened red bean paste
• custard
• chocolate
• nutella
• ham and cheese (for savoury kind fillings)

Others

• 1 Tbsp melted butter or cooking oil for cooking

*1 Tbsp = 15 ml, 1 Cup = 250 ml

The formula to Make Bungeoppang (Korean Taiyaki)

1.Combine all batter substances in a medium sized bowl. Combine them well. Switch the combination valid into a jug that has a spout for easy pouring.

2. Preheat a bungeoppang pan over medium low warmth. Instant brush the pan with some melted butter or cooking oil.

3. Pour the batter combination onto the bungeoppang pan. Fully screen about 50 % of the pan. Add your sequence of filling then add extra batter combination on top to screen the fish mould. Shut the pan and turn it over hasty.

4. Cook dinner every facets of the pan till the fish pastry turns golden brown (about 2 minutes every aspect). Take hang of away the fish pastry from the pan and quiet down on the rack hasty. Assist.

Repeat

Reckoning to your texture preference, you can exercise ghastly flour or cake flour. Straightforward flour offers a rather extra fluffy texture, cherish western vogue pancakes.

On the assorted hand, cake flour offers you rather crisp and no more doughy texture. Also, it’s possible you’ll possibly even mix in some sweet rice flour for mochi cherish texture. FYI, we capture ghastly flour essentially essentially based Taiyaki!