Recipe - Hot Pepper And Scallion Pancakes With Charred Squid Pickle

=== DOUGH ===
1 cup Water
3 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Salt
=== PANCAKES ===
1 bn Scallions; finely minced
2 Serrano or jalapeño chiles;
finely minced
2 tablespoon Toasted sesame seeds
2 tablespoon Sesame oil
Salt; to taste
Freshlyground black pepper;
to taste
=== BARBECUE SAUCE ===
1 tablespoon Minced ginger
1 tablespoon Minced garlic
2 tablespoon Sesame oil
1 cup Hoisin
1 cup Tomato fillets; (canned is
fine)
1 cup Pineapple or mango juice
One half cup Rice vinegar
One fourth cup Brown sugar
1 tablespoon Chili paste
Salt; to taste
Freshlyground black pepper;
to taste
=== SQUID ===
1 pound Clean squid bodies
One fourth pound Tentacles ; (to One half lb)

Knead dough ingredients together and allow to rest. Pancakes: Divide dough
into 8 equal parts. Roll into a rough circle, 1/4inch thick. Paint with
sesame oil. Flavor with scallions, chiles, sesame seed, salt and pepper.
Roll each into a cigar then coil into a rough circle again. Roll each
pancake now 1/2inch thick. Hold, divided by waxed paper, until ready to
cook. Barbecue Sauce: Saute ginger and garlic in sesame oil. Add all other
ingredients and simmer until reduced and flavorful. Season to taste. Squid:
Toss squid with sesame oil, chili oil, salt and pepper and grill over a hot
fire until fully cooked and well charred or char in a grill pan on your
stove top. Cut into smaller bitesized pieces and toss with a little
barbecue sauce and hold. To Serve: You will need garnishes of julienned
scallion, cilantro sprigs and any number of pickled vegetables that you
might make or buy in an Asian market (for example pickled ginger, pickled
shallot, pickled daikon, mustard greens or even salted mung bean sprouts).
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Heat a large saute pan and add a little soy or
canola oil. Add pancakes and brown one side, flip and finish in oven.
Compose plate with triangles of scallion pancake, a pile of barbecued
squid, pickles, herbs and a side cup of the barbecue dipping sauce. This
recipe yields 8