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Haemul Pajeon
Choi Eun-ju
Chef, Dongnae Buchimgae, Busan, KR
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Haemul Pajeon

45 min total35 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Dongnae style: scallions laid down first, seafood on top, egg poured over at the end.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Heavy 26 cm pan, Wide spatula, Mixing bowl
Allergens
Gluten, Egg, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Soy
Method
18 steps · 15 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 13 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Batter blend

Film

Plain flour cut with rice flour and potato starch, mixed with iced water and left slightly lumpy.

All-wheat batter goes chewy and pale. The rice flour crisps, the starch browns, and cold water keeps the gluten down.

  • Plain flour000 g
  • Rice flour000 g
Steps
3
Time
10 min
Hands-on
8 min

Makes Enough for one 26 cm pancake

No — mixed just before the pan

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Dipping sauce

Soy, rice vinegar and a little water with sesame, chilli and spring onion.

The pancake is deliberately under-seasoned so the sauce does the work; a sweetened bottled ponzu throws it off completely.

  • Soy sauce000 g
  • Rice vinegar000 g
Steps
3
Time
8 min
Hands-on
8 min

Makes 120 ml · keeps 1 week refrigerated

Up to 1 week ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Spring onions000 g
  • Squid000 g
  • Prawns000 g
  • Clams000 g
  • Plain flour000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 13 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING4:00

Picking spring onions thin enough to lie flat

TECHNIQUE5:00

The flip, with a plate and no panic

KIT4:00

Pan heat: why it goes down after the first side

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 18 STEPS

15 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 15 of the 18 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: turning it in one piece — step 11 of 18.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 12 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Choi Eun-ju watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Laying the onions in one direction

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Pressing down once and never again

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Adding oil around the rim mid-cook

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The flour blend and water temperature that give a crisp edge with a soft middle, plus how much oil the pan really needs.

Written by Choi Eun-ju. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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