Tuna Pancakes (Chamchijeon in Korean)

Man, my hand are stinging from cutting hot chillies. Fortunately I didn’t rub my eyes with this hand. If I had, my eyes would sting too. I used chillies for some extra taste for tuna pancakes. I love the extra taste from chillies, even if it is hot. (I am a typical Korean concerning food.)

-Ingredients for 2 people

tuna pancakes ingredients
  • 2 eggs
  • 250g tuna
  • 3 stalks of small spring onions
  • 1/4 an onion
  • 1 red and 1 green chili
  • 2 tsp all purpose white flour
  • 2 sprinkles of salt

-Preparation tuna pancakes prep

1. Wash all the vegetables.

2. Cut the onion, spring onion, and each chili into fine pieces.

3. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat.

4. Pour all the vegetables and tuna into the bowl.

5. Add the flour and the salt into the bowl.

6. Mix them well.

-Cooking

1. Pre heat the frying pan.

2. Pour some oil.

3. Scoop the tuna and vegetable mix out with a spoon, and put it onto the pan (each spoonful makes one pan cake).

4. Turn it over when the bottom cooks.

tuna pancakes cooking

5. Serve them on the plate.

tuna pancakes with dipping sauce

I made about 12 pancakes with the ingredients.
Anyhow, after presenting the pancakes on the dish, I thought it would be nice to have dipping sauce with this. I made some dipping sauce (same recipe as last time, when I made dipping sauce for squid pancakes). With the sauce, it was truly excellent.
However you need to expect to smell like an onion. :)

I used these for the Dipping Sauce

  • Sugar 2 tsp
  • Soy Sauce 3 tsp
  • Water 3 tsp
  • Vinegar 3 tsp
  • Some Onion Pieces

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11 Responses to Tuna Pancakes (Chamchijeon in Korean)
  1. Jaegwnag
    April 2, 2009 | 10:23 am

    Hi, good recipes on the site, thank you. I was wondering though, I if you meant table spoon and not teaspoon? “tsp” means teaspoon, and table spoon is abbreviated as T., tb., tblspn, tbs. or tbsp. It didn’t seem like “batter” for a pancake, but maybe I did something incorrectly or maybe the eggs make up for the lack of batter-ness.

  2. Maureen
    January 27, 2008 | 10:28 pm

    Yes, all of my attempts at making pancakes have been quite unsuccessful. Apparently I’ve been missing the flour. Thank you so much for a great recipe! Great work!

  3. sue
    January 14, 2008 | 1:58 pm

    Loretta

    Thank you for stopping by my blog.
    I am very glad to hear your successful Korean cooking stories.
    Happy Cooking!

  4. Loretta
    January 13, 2008 | 7:10 am

    I came across your website yesterday whilst researching Gochujang (I’m trying to learn about Korean food) and tried out the Bibim Guksu as I had all the ingredients in the cupboard. We loved it! I’ve tried to find alternative ways to serve Soba noodles without Japanese dashi so I could serve it to Vegetarian friends but they never tasted nice – the Bibim Guksu was delicious!

    Bolstered by the success of this recipe I made the tuna pancakes later that same evening (which are incredibly easy). On their own with a little hot sauce they are very good, but with the dipping sauce they are fantastic.

    So for lunch today we had Kimchi Bokkumbap, stir fried Gochujang with minced and marinaded Quorn (a meat substitute) and more of the Chamchijeon – because they were so very good the last time. Again – everything was easy to prepare and tasted fantastic. Thank you so much for posting your easy to follow recipes. Korean food has always seemed intimidating for me but your blog is easing me in gently and successfully. We feel so good after our meal right now – like we’ve just got out of a very hot bath! I’m looking forward to trying more.

  5. sue
    May 23, 2007 | 6:38 am

    Hi Melanie,

    I used all purpose white flour for this.
    Good luck with your pancakes.

  6. Melanie
    May 23, 2007 | 12:10 am

    All my attempts at pancakes so far have been disastrous, I will try your recipe to see if I have any luck this time!

    I just wanted to check whay kind of flour you use, is it rice flour or white wheat flour?

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