Korean cucumbers, the most delicious recipe

Korean cucumber salad for the winter, the most delicious recipe with a photo step by step

Korean-style cucumbers with carrots for the winter are a bright and memorable snack. This way of cooking vegetables will pleasantly surprise guests, it is not too popular and has not had time to get bored, like other snacks like pickles. Korean cuisine is famous for its savory dishes, sometimes incredibly spicy, just hot! In Russia, Korean carrots are the most famous. At this link, you can see how delicious Korean-style carrots are cooked correctly. This ordinary orange root vegetable becomes incredibly fragrant and piquant due to spices: coriander and ground pepper. Korean carrots are a good base for a variety of salads. One of them I propose to consider step by step in this article. We will cut cucumbers quite large. So they will remain crispy, and all lovers of vegetable salads will like it. The appetizer is good on its own, as an addition to a meat dish, baked potatoes and other vegetables. In addition, Korean-style cucumber salad can be successfully rolled up in jars for the winter. A spicy and spicy snack not only crunches nicely and looks beautiful, it is also healthy. Spicy spices will not let you get sick, and low-calorie ingredients will get better. You can eat the salad immediately after cooking, the main thing is to let it brew for 4 hours. And then it is already possible to immediately go to the table and close it in jars for the winter. How to cook crispy Korean cucumbers? Armed with fresh vegetables, spices and good mood! Active actions will take no more than 30-40 minutes. I offer you a simple recipe with a photo.

Ingredients:

• 2 kg of cucumbers;
• 0.5 kg of carrots;
• 0.5 st. sugar (100 g);
• 0.5 st. vinegar (80g);
• 0.5 st. odorless vegetable oil (80 g);
• 50 g of salt;
• 30 g of peeled garlic;
• 3 tbsp spices for Korean carrots.

How to cook cucumbers in Korean, the most delicious recipe

Preparatory stage: if we are going to roll up a Korean salad for the winter, then we will sterilize the jars and lids washed with soda in any convenient way (see for more details). Product yield: 5 cans of 0.5 l.

1. Grate carrots for Korean carrots. How to cut Korean carrots if there is no special grater? You can use a manual potato peeler, but the plastics will be wider. A standard grater with large holes will also work. You can also cut carrots with a knife into thin strips.

2. Remove the tails from the cucumbers. We cut each into 4 parts along and across another 3. We take young, fresh cucumbers, and if the fruits are large, then cut them across into 6 parts. The main thing is that all the pieces are approximately the same and fit easily into the mouth. Check if the peel is bitter. If it's bitter, you can cut it off. But with the peel, pleasantly crunchy cucumbers are obtained.

Advice: it is better to buy cucumbers not greenhouse, but ground and "straight from the garden", as in the photo. They have a more pronounced taste and will be very crispy. You can try to break the cucumber: if it comes out easily, with a characteristic crunch, then the cucumbers are fresh and good. And if the vegetables begin to bend, they should not be taken.

3. Put the carrots and cucumbers in a deep bowl.

4. Add all the ingredients for the marinade. Pass the garlic through a press. If there is no ready-made seasoning for Korean carrots, then we will cook it at home. You will need a mixture of red hot and black peppers - 0.5 tbsp, ground garlic - 1 tbsp, coriander - 1.5 tbsp, you can add turmeric, paprika and ginger to taste. The sweetish aroma of coriander is something without which a Korean snack is impossible, it is an indispensable ingredient. We take a self-prepared mixture in the amount of 3 tablespoons, as in the case of ready-made seasoning. We take 9 percent vinegar. Add spices, salt, sugar, vinegar to taste. If the salad seems sour to your taste, add sugar, which, by the way, is very often used in the preparation of salty Korean salads, appetizers and second courses. But do not be afraid, the salad will not be sweet, sugar will give a little sweetish notes and piquancy along with spicy seasoning.

Note: sugar is usually included in the ready-made mixture for Korean carrots, so do not overdo it.

5. Mix thoroughly so that each piece is saturated with marinade.

6. Press the vegetables well on top with a plate and put the appetizer under oppression for 4 hours. We leave the bowl indoors, let the vegetables marinate at room temperature. In the refrigerator, the salad quickly spreads its smell.

7. After 4 hours, the vegetables released juice, this can be clearly seen in the step-by-step photo. Cucumbers and carrots are marinated, you can already eat Korean salad!

8. Fill cold sterilized jars with cold salad. Please note: the temperature of the salad should be approximately the same as the temperature of the jars, the latter may burst from a strong difference. Pour the remaining juice from the vegetables on top.

9. We cover the jars with lids, but do not roll them up. We sterilize the salad in a saucepan so that it does not deteriorate by winter. How to sterilize: pour a little water at room temperature on the bottom of the pan (so that at least half of the jar is covered) and lay a rag. Now put the jars on the bottom, bring to a boil and sterilize. We count the time from the moment the water boils in the pan: 10 minutes - time for cans with a capacity of 0.5 liters, 15 - 0.75 liters, and 20 minutes - 1 liter. I suggest taking small, for example, half-liter jars, if you have a small family.

10. After sterilization, we roll up the jars, turn them over and wrap them with a warm blanket until they cool completely. After a day, we put it in a closet or a dark, cool place and check it periodically. Unfortunately, salads with cucumbers for the winter do not last very long. Or rather, they can stand, but cucumbers begin to lose their freshness over time, they become not so crispy and tasty, so I advise you not to keep the salad for longer than six months. And during this time, you can enjoy many more times the magnificent spicy taste of cucumbers, which in the salad remain very similar to fresh ones.

Korean-style cucumbers according to the most delicious recipe are ready. Enjoy your meal!