Name: Sweet pancakes (Hotteok: 호떡)
Yield: PT0M
Ingredients: See video for ingredients

Dinner: Sweet pancakes (Hotteok: 호떡)

Full recipe: http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/hoddeok Music: 'Words' by Missing Persons How to make this popular Korean street food. Starring Reinier! Ingredients: Flour, water, dry yeast, salt, vegetable oil, sugar, brown sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon powder. Directions: Make hoddeok dough: 1. Place 1 cup of lukewarm water into a mixing bowl. 2. Add 2 tbs white sugar, 2 ts yeast, ½ ts salt, 1 tbs vegetable oil, and stir it well. 3. Add 2 cups of all purpose flour and mix it with a rice scoop, or by hand. 4. Let the dough rise. It should sit with the lid closed at room temperature for 1 hour. 5. After an hour the dough will rise to double its size. Knead it to remove the gas bubbles in the dough. 6. Let it rise for another 10-20 minutes. Make filling (for 8 hoddeok): 1. Mix ½ cup brown sugar, 1 ts cinnamon powder, and 2 tbs chopped walnuts in a bowl. *tip: you could use mozzarella cheese for stuffing. Invent your own fillings with your favorite ingredients! Let's make hoddeok! 1. Knead the dough again to remove the gas bubbles. 2. Place and spread about ½ cup flour on your cutting board. 3. Put the dough on your cutting board and knead it. Make it into a lump, and cut it into 8 equal-sized balls. 4. Take 1 dough ball, flatten it, put some filling in the center of the dough, and then seal it to make a ball. 5. Repeat this 8 times to make 8 stuffed balls. *tip: Use some flour from the cutting board to prevent your fingers from sticking to the dough 6. Heat up your non-stick pan over medium heat and add some vegetable oil. 7. Place 1 ball on the pan and let it cook for 30 seconds. 8. When the bottom of the dough ball is light golden brown, turn it over and press the dough with a spatula to make a thin and wide circle (about the size of a CD). 9. Let it cook about 1 minute until the bottom is golden brown. 10. Turn it over again and turn down the heat very low. 11. Place the lid on the pan and cook 1 more minute. The brown sugar filling mixture will be melted to syrup! Serve hot!

This recipe includes fertility superfoods such as:

Cinnamon, Nuts, Walnuts

Health and fertility benefits of Sweet pancakes (Hotteok: 호떡)

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Nuts are a natural source of Inositol, a derivative of Vitamin B (which is often prescribed in the form of supplements for women with PCOS). Inositol can effectively control the symptoms of PCOS by reducing insulin resistance and improving insulin sensitivity. Walnuts are low on the glycemic index. What’s more, they also lower the glycemic index of other foods that you eat in conjunction with these nuts. Any kind of nuts provide a healthy source of fat and a great way to encourage PCOS weight loss.