--- title: 'Tuna Pancakes (Chamchijeon: 참치전)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=YzJ8u4E-3no' video_id: 'YzJ8u4E-3no' date: 2026-07-30 duration_sec: 405 --- # Tuna Pancakes (Chamchijeon: 참치전) > Source: [Tuna Pancakes (Chamchijeon: 참치전)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YzJ8u4E-3no) ## Summary This video demonstrates how to make Korean tuna pancakes (Chamchijeon) using canned tuna. The recipe is simple, requires no special Korean ingredients, and was a favorite lunchbox item for the creator's children. The tutorial covers ingredient preparation, mixing, pan-frying, and serving suggestions. ### Key Points - **Introduction and Setup** [00:03] — The creator is at Monto beach and introduces the recipe for Korean tuna pancakes, highlighting it as a popular recipe on her website. - **Ingredients** [00:33] — Uses one can of Korean tuna (5 oz), but any canned tuna works. Also needs onion, garlic, egg, salt, pepper, toasted sesame oil, and cooking oil. - **Preparing Vegetables** [00:49] — Chop quarter cup of onion finely. Garlic is also used but not specified amount. - **Draining Tuna** [01:48] — Squeeze the canned tuna slightly to remove excess liquid, but not too tightly. - **Mixing Batter** [02:02] — Combine tuna, onion, one egg, half teaspoon salt, quarter teaspoon black pepper, and one teaspoon toasted sesame oil. Mix well. - **Cooking** [03:07] — Heat olive oil (or any cooking oil) in a pan. Spoon the mixture and pan-fry until golden brown on both sides, about 1-2 minutes per side. - **Personal Story** [04:21] — The creator shares that her daughter loved this tuna pancake in her lunchbox because it kept the rice moist and was juicy. - **Serving Suggestions** [05:16] — Serve with rice, kimchi, dried pollack side dish, and garlic stems. The pancake is salty, juicy, and meaty, perfect as a side dish. ### Conclusion This recipe for Korean tuna pancakes is easy, quick, and uses everyday ingredients, making it a great addition to any meal, especially for lunchboxes. ## Transcript Hi everybody. I'm here in Monto, very nice beach. This is my favorite place. Today I want to share a very easy, simple, fast and delicious. Of course, it should be delicious recipe. This is one of the most popular recipes on my one of the most popular recipes on my website. But I just refined a little kind of little simple thing. Especially when I travel, it has to be very easy. I used to make this for my children's lunchbox made with canned tuna. You don't need any special Korean cooking ingredients. Let's get started. ingredients. Let's get started. I'm using can of Korean tuna. Uh this is around 5 oz. You guys can use any kinds of canned tuna. So let's make this with of canned tuna. So let's make this with one can. So a little later. And first let's do garlic and onion. This guy only need Everybody has onion and garlic at home, right? So, I need quarter cup onion for one can of tuna. Just a onion for one can of tuna. Just a quarter cup and chop it up. squeeze out too tightly. Just slightly like this. season this and pan fry. That's tuna pancake. Time for chamchi jan. pancake. Time for chamchi jan. So one egg. tablespoon. And salt. Half teaspoon. ground black pepper around 1/4 teaspoon. Next, toasted sesame oil without this not tasty for me. So, toasted sesame not tasty for me. So, toasted sesame oil, don't forget. And one teaspoon. oil, don't forget. And one teaspoon. And mix. Mix the salt very evenly. Look at this. I'm using olive oil, but you guys can use any kind of cooking oil. Wow, smells good. Okay, this guy. Let's flip it over. Wow, nice golden brown. flip it over. Wow, nice golden brown. Gorgeous. It looks very juicy. I just cook one or two minutes. Beautiful. My daughter says recently I asked her, "What's the lunch box, you know, side dish? Why what do you remember best?" She said, "Mom, I I love that tuna pancake chami jun." She said that lunch box is a kind of a rice by itself is a box is a kind of a rice by itself is a little dry, but this tuna pancake has kind of juicy. So, it's already cooked. So after flipping over and around one and two minutes again. So both sides golden brown that's it. golden brown that's it. See Korean festival day. You know Korean festival days we always make a kind of pancake. you know all kinds of pancake and already here is a smells in monto and already here is a smells in monto Korean festival smell so with one can of tuna we made this let's have a lunch tuna pancake chamiji jun here and side dish I made this side dish and bug poined the dried pola with just a little bit water and pound 100 times you can check out the recipe kind of chewy and check out the recipe kind of chewy and also it really like juicy. And this is kimchi. I made this into bok choy kimchi. And this is manui manong garlic stems. manong garlic stems. One big thing is missing. Rice. Cheers everybody. Can you make it this? You can make it. Oh, this is non-alcoholic beer but tasted really like a alcoholic beer tasted really like a alcoholic beer rice first. Perfect side dish for rice. It's salty and juicy and meaty. Today I showed you how to make Korean tuna pancake in Korean chami jam. Enjoy my recipe. See you next time. Bye. [Music]