Nok Tu bin da tuk (Korean Green Bean Pancake)

These are the ingredients of the Green Bean
Pancake...mung beans, spinach, green onions
(as you can see the Japanese green onions are huge),
bean sprouts, and the brown stuff is fern root. There
is also mushrooms in it but they are not shown. No
eggs or flours used. This is a special dish only
made for special occasions and rarely more than
once or twice a year.

In Korean, you can buy the mung bean
already shelled - in Japan you cannot. So,
the mung bean must be soaked for a couple
of days (seen below) then you put them in a
blender or processor and run it very quickly.
Dump the beans into a bowl and very carefully rinse
off the shells (above).
The woman above is Jeoug Ki (pronounced junkie/chunkie),
our neighbor. Her husband is actually from Byran!!!

Once most the shells are off, you process the
beans until the make a paste (above) and then
add the other ingredients (below).

Fry them like pancakes, it is not uncommon in
Korean for them to squat on the floor and fry the
pancakes because when they do make them they
make a lot and squatting is more comfortable
for them than standing.

Then serve them with a Yang Nam Jang
(Hot Pepper Dip) and pickles.

And we were all very pleasantly surprised at how good they tasted!
The color of the fern root had us a bit worried.