This is my second version of hotteok, an korean street food. While most recipes do use the same dough for sweet and salty fillings I do prefer different doughs for different fillings. As a first salty hotteok I made sauerkraut filled hotteok. Korean Austrian fusion at its finest.

Other than the sweet hotteok I do use oil instead of butter. While butter does enhance the flavor of sweet dishes and desserts a lot it might clash with the sour fillings. Oil has a more neutral taste which I do prefer as I don’t have to think about what I want to use as filling in the end. In addition I added a bit more salt and reduced the sugar.

Ingredients

• 330g all purpose flour
• 250g warm water
• 35g neutral tasting oil
• 20g sugar
• 1pkg dry yeast
• 9g salt

Instructions

The instructions for the dough are the same as for the sweet hotteok recipe.

For the dough you can mix soe of the flour, the sugar some warm water and the dry yeast together and let it sit for 20 minutes in a warm place. This activates the yeast. Afterward knead all other ingredients together and let the dough rest covered for an 30-60 minutes in a warm place.

Note: if you let the dough rise for too long you will notice it in taste. Warm water and a lot of yeast for quite little flour will over ferment in no time. The dough should double in size. Not more.

Filling

There are a ton of recipes that do use vegetables and rice noodles as fillings. Personally I think you can use any left overs as filling that you have at hand.

Sauerkraut Hotteok

For my first run with this dough I filled them with sauerkraut. Let it sit in a sieve to reduce all excess liquid. The wetter the sauerkraut the harder is the filling process. In addition more water might rin into the oil in case a hotteok rips open during baking.

To enhance the flavor I cut some port fat into small cubes, placed in an non oiled pan, and let it bake/fry at medium heat until it drained most of its oil and the pieces are nice and golden.

Filling Process

The filling process is the same as in the sweet hotteok recipe.

Tips

You can use this dough with sweet fillings. I prefer to use the sweet hotteok dough, though in case you want to make a few salty and a few sweet I would rather go with this one.