Cooking with Flour - Limited budget cooking

Hello, welcome back to another episode of

limited budget food challenge.

Today we're going to be exploring flour

and how it's actually a very useful

ingredient for making lots of food.

So I've already made some earlier.

Basically it's a flour water mixture with

cheese and salt and actually turns into a

pretty good savory pancake.

That you can add many things to, like

onions, vegetables.

I've got some Spam that I'm gonna add

today.

And you can also make a dessert with it

because, you know, cakes and pastries are

made out of flour.

And then you just add flour, some milk,

and some sugar, and you can make a little

bun.

So I'm just gonna make some extra batter

because I don't think that's quite enough.

I could do with a bit more.

So basically you want to get a sieve and

you want to sieve out any lumps in the

flour.

Like so.

Okay, so that should be enough flour, and

you just want to tap it lightly,

get all the lumps out.

Then

you want to get some water.

Some water, not too much, and then you

want to add your seasonings.

So you want to go for some garlic powder

and some salt.

And you might be thinking this is weird,

who makes a savory pancake?

Because in the West we usually have a

sweet pancake,

that's what pancakes usually are,

desserts.

But in Korea they actually have a dish

called pajeon, which is like a savory

pancake.

They put kimchi, shrimp, green onions, and

it's actually really good.

So you'd be surprised that a savoury

pancake is pretty good.

So yeah, you want the consistency to be

kind of like that.

And then the cheese,

basically dump all the cheese into it.

And also onions go really well with it,

so it's basically cheese and onion with

some Spam in a pancake.

Sounds delicious.

So, so I've got the old batter.

I should probably use the old batter

first,

although I might add a bit of the new

batter to it because the old batter is a

bit thick.

Just stir that about.

So you don't want to put too much batter

into the pan, otherwise you're going to

get really thick

pancake, and then you're gonna get raw

batter in the middle of the pancake, and

it's gonna be all gungy, and it's not

gonna be great.

So I'm gonna go get— get the Spam and

onions and fry it up.

Get about that much onion because we gotta

ration the rest of it.

And then just chop it into slightly small

bits.

Don't need to dice it.

And then you want to get the Spam.

We don't want too much Spam, otherwise

it'll be a bit overpowering.

So we want the Spam to be in

Kind of like chopped bacon-sized pieces.

Then just go chop, chop, chop,

chop, chop.

Okay, so those are the fine bits.

You want to go over to your frying pan.

And, um, put some oil

into the pan.

So we need quite a bit of oil, otherwise

pancake is going to stick, which we don't

want.

Unfortunately, my frying pan handle is

getting all loose.

I need to tighten it up.

Okay.

Oh, I thought it was hot.

It's not very hot.

No sizzle.

Okay, so now it's finished frying, you

want to add the batter on top of it like

that,

and you want to spread it out.

Try and get the ingredients inside.

Side of the mix, not on the edges.

Okay, so you're gonna flatten it out so

it's not too thick.

Try and clean it up a bit.

So

yeah, it will look

that, and then it will start cooking to

form a base, and then you can flip it.

Give it a little shake.

Now fill in any gaps if you've got any.

Gaps.

Okay, so maybe start flipping it now.

It's a bit tricky and it's going to be a

bit messy.

Oh, that bit didn't flip.

This bit, where it's hot.

Look at that color.

Golden brown.

Beautiful color.

Maybe do a little flip.

Ooh, that looks very good.

Cook the other side a bit more.

And that is how you make flour pancake.

Voilà!

It kind of looks like a pizza.

Yeah, it looks pretty good.

Look at that.

Take a picture.

And then get your pizza slicer.

Oh, it looks crispy.

It's really good if you have kimchi as

well, which I don't have unfortunately.

Yeah, pretty good.