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Jianbing

A crepe cooked on a griddle, egg cracked onto it, a crisp sheet folded inside.

Jianbing
Photo: Amazingloong, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A photo of the dish, not of these exact recipes.

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How to make jianbing

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On a flat pan

20 minutes · serves 2 · Medium

What you need

  • 60g plain flour
  • 30g mung bean flour
  • 200ml water
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp sweet bean sauce
  • 1 tsp chilli sauce
  • 2 spring onions, chopped
  • Coriander
  • 2 sheets of crisp fried wonton skin

What you do

  1. 1Whisk both flours into the water until thin and lump-free.
  2. 2Pour a ladle onto a wide, lightly oiled pan and spread it thin with the back of the ladle.
  3. 3Crack an egg on top and spread it over the surface while the crepe is still wet.
  4. 4Scatter spring onion and coriander, then flip once the base is set.
  5. 5Brush with bean sauce and chilli, lay the crisp sheet on, fold in the sides and fold it in half twice.
  6. 6Eat immediately, standing up, from a piece of paper.

Tortilla shortcut

8 minutes · serves 1 · Very easy

What you need

  • 1 large flour tortilla
  • 1 egg
  • Hoisin or sweet bean sauce
  • Chilli sauce
  • Spring onion
  • Crisp wonton skin

What you do

  1. 1Crack the egg into a pan and immediately press the tortilla on top of it.
  2. 2Flip when set, sauce it, add the crackers, fold.
  3. 3Not the real thing. Two minutes.