How to Make Apple Hotteok 🍎🇰🇷 Esther’s Upstate New York-Inspired Korean Street Food

Korean street food meets the flavors of Upstate New York! 🍎 Hotteok is a LEGENDARY Korean dessert that reminds Esther of her childhood. These yeasted, sweet and fried doughnut-like pancakes are traditionally packed with a molten center of peanuts, cinnamon and brown sugar, but Esther brings the flavors of her Upstate New York home to her favorite treat. Inside the elastic, pillowy dough is a warm apple-cinnamon center that’s similar to the flavor of apple pie. She takes it over the edge at the end by making a homemade caramel using her favorite secret weapon ingredient (gochujang!) and serving it with a scoop of ice cream.

Get the recipe:
► Apple Hotteok: https://foodtv.com/3RURje9
► Gochujang Caramel: https://foodtv.com/43Z1KQp

00:00 – Intro
00:47 – Make the Dough
03:20 – Prep the Apple Filling
06:28 – Stuff and Fry the Hotteok
09:08 – Remove the Hotteok
09:36 – Cut into the Hotteok
10:27 – Make the Gochujang Caramel
13:21 – Bring It All Together

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