Ingredients:(Yield 4 sheets of 8 inches/6 sheets 6 inches pancakes)
3 cups/400 gm All Purpose Flour
1/3 cup/ 50 ml vegetable oil (I used grape-seeds oil)
1- 1 1/2 tsp salt
1 bunch spring onion(Use only the green part)
3/4 cup warm water
1/4-1/3 cup of room temperature water (depending on the flour and moisture level)
1. First, take out 1/3 cup/45 gm of all purpose flour from the total flour listed. Mix it with 1/3 cup/50 ml of vegetable oil and 1 1/2 tsp of salt, it should form a runny paste.
2. Knead the remaining flour with warm water until the flour becomes flaky, add room temperature water to form a very soft ball, it should feel like your earlobe when touch. Leave the dough aside for 10-15 minutes, cover with a wet towel or cling paper.
3. Washed and drained spring onion/scallion, spin dry and chopped as fine as possible.
Note: it is important to spin the water out of spring onion, to prevent breakage during rolling later.
4. Spread some vegetable oil on working surface and on hands. Divide dough into 4 equal parts (around 150 gm each) or 6 equal parts (around 100 gm each) , roll it out into a rectangular shape, around 1 mm thick.
5. Spread a thin layer of oil-flour mixture (around 1 tbsp) on it and sprinkle as much chopped spring onion as you can handle.
6. Carefully roll the sheet starting from the top, once it is all rolled up like a rolled towel, with firm grips at both ends, slowly pull and fling the roll at opposite direction while lightly tapped the dough, this is to pull the dough into a long strip, the longer, the better.
7. Rolled the strip up to shape like a spiral shell, tucked the end underneath.
(As shown in the picture.) Leave the spiral shells to rest for another 20-30 minutes.
Note:You can make these doughs in bulk, it stays well in the fridge for 2-3 days and up to a month in the freezer, just defrost/thaw the dough one night before you want to fry it.
8. After half an hour, take out one of the dough and roll it out into a 6/8 inch flat bread.