DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Gamjajeon
Also known as: 감자전
Korean potato-and-onion pancakes with optional green chilli and a sweet-tangy soy dip.
About Gamjajeon
Gamjajeon are Korean potato pancakes with crisp golden surfaces and soft centres. Sue’s rendition combines potato and onion, with green chilli offered as an optional garnish.
The potato gives the pancakes their mild flavour and substantial texture, while onion brings a little sweetness. Fine sea salt seasons the mixture, and rice bran oil supplies the frying medium.
The small pancakes are served warm with an onion-soy dipping sauce. The dip balances raw sugar, rice vinegar and soy sauce, adding sweet, tangy and savoury flavours beside the potato.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Soy, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Gamjajeon
Sue’s Korean gamjajeon with onion-soy dipping sauce.
- PotatoesBase
- OnionAromatic
- Green chilli, variety unspecifiedGarnish · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Fine sea saltSeasoning
- Rice bran oilCooking medium
- Raw sugarAccompaniment
- Soy sauceAccompaniment
- WaterAccompaniment
- Rice vinegarAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main66/141 and chosen onion dip79/136 shared required.
- Green chilli, variety unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main67/142 explicit optional, no variety inferred.
- Fine sea salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Rice bran oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main69/144 actual used oil identified.
- Raw sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce56/116 raw sugar, broad sugar identity; required named sauce base.
- Soy sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Soy source-confirmed; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Own sauce57/117 normal soy sauce confirms Soy; exact manufacturer formula unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal own sauce58/118. Main77/86 strained water is potato moisture, not extra ingredient.
- Rice vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce59/119 first rice vinegar over white-vinegar alternative.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- South Korea
- North KoreaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Korean Cuisine
- North Korean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.