Mock Mandarin Pancakes Food

CHINESE MANDARIN PANCAKE

Steps:

• Pour the flour into a large bowl. Prepare boiling water and a pair of chop stickers. Slowly pour the water in, at the meantime stir the flour in one direction immediately. Then pour the cold water with the same process.
• Wait for the flour to cool down to room temperature. Then knead the dough until smooth (around 6-10 minutes, you can use a stand mixer to help this process). Cover with wet towel and set aside for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Transfer the dough into a floured surface. Roll the dough into a long strip and then cut into 10 equal sections. Press each a little bit to a thick wrapper.
• Prepare two wrappers. Brush some oil on top of one wrapper, and also the bottom of the other one. Press the two together. Roll the overlapped pancake to a large circle.
• Brush some oil in your pan and then fry the pancake over middle heat until one side becomes slightly browned, turn over to fry the other side until slightly browned too.
• Tear one pancake from the other one.

MOO SHU PORK WITH MOCK MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Thinly slice green onions reserving 1/4 cup for garnish.
• Coursely chop water chestnuts with a food chopper.
• Combine hoisen sauce and 2 teaspoons of oil in a cup and set aside.
• For the pancakes, heat remaining teaspoon oil over medium-high heat for 1-3 minutes or until shimmering.
• Lightly beat eggs in a coating tray.
• Dip 1 tortilla into eggs, and place tortilla in skillet.
• Cook 20-30 seconds or until lightly golden brown, turning once.
• Repeat with remaining tortillas.
• Cover pancakes and keep them warm.
• Flatten pork with toothed end of a meat tenderizer, and cut into 1/4 inch strips.
• Add pork to skillet, cook 2-3 minutes over medium heat or until no longer pink.
• Add remaining green onions, water chestnuts, cole slaw mix, and hoisen sauce mixture.
• Cook 2-3 minutes or until heated through, tossing to coat.
• Spoon pork mixture into pancakes, and garnish with reserved onions.

MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt and create a well in the middle. Add the boiling water, mix it in with a spatula, and then incorporate with your hands until you have a mealy shaggy mixture. Mix in the cold water and bring everything together into a dough. Turn it out onto a work surface and knead, adding additional flour if it gets too sticky to work with, until you have a smooth and slightly sticky dough, 7 to 10 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap or a damp towel and let rest for 15 minutes.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces. Form them into balls and keep them covered when you're not working with them. Use your palms to smash 2 balls of dough into equally sized discs about 2-to-3-inches-wide. Brush the top of one disc with a thin layer of oil and stack the other disc on top of it to create one thick disc. Using a rolling pin, roll the disc into a 7-to-8-inch-wide pancake, dusting your work surface and rolling pin with flour if needed to prevent sticking. Place it in the dry skillet and cook for about a minute on each side, until splotchy with brown marks. Transfer to a plate and cover with a towel. Repeat with the remaining dough, stacking the cooked pancakes on top of one another and keeping them covered so that they steam. When they're cool enough to handle, peel the two halves of each pancake apart so that you have two very thin pancakes (NIFTY, HUH?!) and enjoy immediately while they're still warm. Leftovers that have cooled completely can be wrapped tightly in plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator for a few days. Reheat in the microwave covered by a damp paper towel.

COPYCAT MOO SHU PORK

Steps:

• Mandarin Pancakes: Combine Flour and boiling water in medium bowl. Mix until a soft ball is formed. Add more flour if dough is too sticky to handle. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead for 5 to 8 minutes until smooth and elastic. Cover with plastic wrap. Let stand for 20 minutes. Divide dough into 16 equal portions. Shape each portion into a ball. Flatten into 4 inch (10 cm) circles.
• Brush top of 1 circle with sesame oil. Place another circle on top. Roll into 6 inch (15 cm) circle on lightly floured surface. Repeat with remaining circles. Keep covered with plastic wrap to prevent drying out. Heat non-stick frying pan until hot. Cook double pancakes, 1 at a time, for about 30 seconds until a few brown spots appear. Turn over. Cook for 30 seconds. Do not overcook or they will become brittle. Separate into 2 pancakes while still hot. Fold each in half and set on greased plate or tray. Cover. To serve, steam for about 5 minutes or cover individual pancakes with damp paper towel and microwave on high for 10 to 20 seconds until warm and soft. Makes 16 pancakes.
• Marinade: Combine water, cornstarch, soy sauce, sugar, sake, and pepper in medium bowl. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Add pork. Stir 2 or 3 times. Marinate at room temperature for 20 minutes.
• Remaining: Cover mushrooms with boiling water in small bowl. Let stand for 20 minutes until softened. Rinse, drain and squeeze dry. Discard stems. Cut caps into matchsticks, and set aside.
• Fork-beat eggs, salt and pepper together in a small bowl. Pour into greased frying pan. Scramble-fry until chunky but still moist. Turn out onto plate. Break up larger pieces.
• Heat wok until very hot. Add cooking oil and pork strips, discarding marinade. Stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, suey choy, ginger, garlic, green onion, bamboo shoots and second amount of soy sauce. Stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add egg mixture. Cook until heated through.
• Lightly brush mandarin pancakes with hoisin sauce on 1 side. Place 1/4 cup pork mixture in center of each pancake. Fold up, envelope-style.

MU SHU PORK AND MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Combine soy sauce, sherry and hoisin sauce in a bowl.
• Add the pork, toss to coat evenly, cover, refrigerate and marinate for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, soak the mushrooms in enough hot water to cover for 20 minutes (no soaking if using button mushrooms).
• Drain and thinly slice.
• Set aside on a plate, along with the cabbage, carrot and scallions.
• Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add 1 tablespoon of the peanut oil and swirl to coat.
• Pour in the eggs, swirling and tilting the wok to form a thin film.
• Cook just until the eggs are set and feel dry on top, about 1 minute.
• Transfer to a platter, let cool slightly and cut into 1 inch strips.
• Return the wok to high heat, and swirl in the remaining 2 tablespoons oil.
• Add the garlic, and ginger, and stir-fry to release the aromas, about 1 minute.
• Add the pork and stir-fry until lightly browned, about 2 minutes.
• Add the reserved mushrooms, cabbage, carrot, bean sprouts, and scallions, along with the chicken stock, and stir-fry another 2 minutes.
• Stir in soy sauce, sherry, sesame oil, and sugar, and cook, stirring until sauce boils, about 1 minute.
• Add egg strips and mix well.
• To serve, spread a small amount of hoisin sauce on a warm Mandarin Pancake.
• Spoon about 1/2 cup mu shu mixture in center of pancake, wrap like a burrito, folding the ends to close, and serve.

MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl put the flour, and gradually stir in the water, mixing to make a thin batter.
• When cool enough to handle, work the dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth.
• Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a dish towel and let rest for 30 minutes.
• Place the sesame oil in a small bowl.
• Place the dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out to 1/4-inch thickness.
• Cut into rounds with a 3-inch cutter.
• With your fingers, daub a small amount of oil on top of 1 round.
• Place another round on top and press together.
• Roll the 2 rounds together to form a circle about 6 or 7-inches in diameter.
• Cover with a damp kitchen cloth until ready to cook, and repeat with the remaining dough.
• Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat.
• Cook 1 pancake at a time until barely golden and dry on both sides, turning once, about 1 minute.
• Remove from the pan, and when cool enough to handle, carefully separate the 2 pancakes.
• Wrap in foil until ready to use, or refrigerate.
• (To reheat, place in a steamer insert and steam, covered, for 5 minutes.).

BERGY DIM SUM #7, MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Put unsifted flour in a bowl.
• Pour in all the boiling water at once stirring with the handle of a wooden spoon (or use your mixer with the bread paddle mix and knead for 5 minutes).
• When the dough is cool enough to handle knead for 10 minutes (this step is not necessary if you used your mixer).
• Whether you do this by hand or with the mixer the mixture is ready when it is a smooth, soft dough.
• Cover the dough and let it rest for 30 minutes.
• Roll dough into a cylindrical shape and cut into 10 equal pieces.
• Keep covered with plastic wrap to prevent drying out.
• Take one slice at a time and cut in two equal pieces.
• On a lightly floured board roll each piece into a 3" circle.
• Brush one side of one of the 3" circle pancakes with Sesame oil, brush the oil right to the edge.
• Put the second 3 inch piece on top of the first and roll both pieces out into a pancake about 7 inches across.
• They must be very thin.
• Cover with plastic as each is made.
• When they are all rolled out heat a skillet or griddle, do not grease it.
• Put pancakes one at a time on the ungreased surface.
• Cook over low heat until pancake developes small bubbles.
• Turn frequently so that both sides are cooked (You'll see a few golden spots).
• Remove from pan and gently pull the two pancakes apart.
• This should go very easy because of the sesame oil that you brushed between them.
• Pile the pancakes on a plate, Put waxed paper between them and cover tightly with plastic wrap so they do not dry out.
• These pancakes will keep several days in the refrigerator.
• To reheat arrange pancakes in a steamer lined with a clean tea towel.
• Cover and put over simmering water for a minute or two.
• To serve fold pancake into quarters.
• The pancakes should be soft and pliable.

CRISP-SKINNED DUCK WITH MOCK MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Rinse ducks inside and out and pat dry. Remove excess fat from cavities and truss ducks. On a metal rack set in a large roasting pan arrange ducks, breast sides up and several inches apart. Let ducks dry, uncovered and chilled, 3 days.
• In a small bowl stir together boiling water, honey, and vinegar and cool to room temperature. Brush ducks with some honey mixture, keeping them chilled, and brush again every 20 minutes for 1 hour. Let ducks dry at room temperature 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Pierce skin of ducks all over with a fork to allow fat to drain and help skin get crisp. Roast duck in middle of oven until mahogany brown and a meat thermometer inserted into fleshy part of a thigh registers 180°F., about 1 hour 15 minutes. Let ducks stand 10 minutes. Discard string and carefully pour out juices from cavities.
• Cut around entire breast of each duck with a sharp paring knife and carefully peel off crisp skin in large pieces. Cut skin into 2 1/2- by 1-inch strips. Cut away and discard any fat on breast meat and remove breast meat from bone. Slice breast meat diagonally into 1/4-inch-thick slices and arrange on a platter with crisp skin. Remove legs from duck and arrange on another platter. Duck meat may be reheated and skin recrisped in a 350°F. oven until just hot.
• To make scallion brushes:
• If serving mock pancakes halved, 48 scallion brushes (one for each half) will be necessary for rolling inside the pancakes. If leaving the pancakes whole, 24 scallion brushes will be needed.
• Trim roots and green parts from scallions, leaving about 2 1/2 inches of stalk. Fringe ends of scallions by cutting slits about 1/2 inch deep all around both ends of each stalk, leaving about 1 inch of solid scallion in center, and spread fringed ends gently. Put scallions in bowl of ice and cold water. Chill scallions 2 hours, or until fringed ends have curled
• Drain scallions well.
• To assemble pancakes:
• Using a scallion brush spread some hoisin sauce on a pancake (whole or half) and top with the scallion brush, some breast meat, and some crisp skin. Roll up pancake to enclosed filling. Make more pancakes with remaining scallion brushes, hoisin sauce, breast meat, and crisp skin in same manner.
• Serve duck legs on the side.

MU SHU PORK WITH MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Soak dried fungus and tiger lily buds in hot water until ready to use. Drain and chop.
• Scramble eggs and set aside.
• Stir fry pork in a bit of oil until lightly browned. Add vegetables, soy sauce, water, sugar and sherry and cook until simmering.
• Add scrambled eggs.
• Add sesame oil and serve.
• To make pancakes. Add boiling water to flour and stir well. let rest 15 minutes. Roll in balls about the size of a large walnut. Press one ball down and brush with sesame oil. Press another ball on top and roll out to about 6 inches. Cook in a saute pan sprayed with Pam, a few minutes on each side. Separate two pancakes and do the rest until all dough is cooked. You can then re heat pancakes in microwave or steam on top of stove over boiling water.
• To serve. Spread a teaspoon of hoisin sauce on pancake and place a large spoonful of mu shu pork in center of pancake. Fold up from the bottom and then fold in sides, like a burrito, but leaving top open.

MOO SHU VEGETABLES WITH CHINESE PANCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 F degrees.
• Wrap pancakes in foil and place in oven to warm, about 8 minutes.
• Heat sesame oil in a wok or large skillet until very hot.
• Add green onions, bok choy, red bell pepper, carrots and mushrooms.
• Stir-fry vegetables 3 to 4 minutes until crisp tender.
• Add sprouts, tofu, ginger and garlic and continue cooking 2 to 3 minutes until sprouts are soft.
• Stir in tamari and extra hoisin sauce.
• To eat, drizzle a spoonful of hoisin sauce across center of pancake.
• Top with generous helping of vegetables and roll up burrito style.