Korean carrots: a recipe at home

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Korean carrots are one of the most popular vegetable snacks. You can cook it with that familiar taste, like in a store, at home using the recipes below. The main thing is to know a few important nuances.

Classic Korean Carrot Recipe

To prepare a dish according to the classic recipe, you will need a special seasoning, without which it will be impossible to repeat the true taste of Korean carrots. A spicy, very juicy and mouth-watering vegetable salad will appeal to everyone.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of carrots;
• 1 bag of Korean carrot seasoning;
• 0, 5 heads of onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 1 tablespoon vinegar

Preparation:

• Peel the carrots, rinse under the tap, chop with a special grater for Korean carrots. Put all the grated carrots in a deep container.
• Peel the garlic cloves and chop finely with a knife or pass through the garlic.
• Add chopped garlic cloves to carrots.

• Pour in granulated sugar. If the carrots have a sweet taste, then you can put a little less sugar.
• Add a few teaspoons of table salt to the vegetables.

• Top with a little vinegar.
• Add special seasoning from a bag, mix all the ingredients, squeezing a little. Leave the carrots for about 15 minutes, during which time it will let out enough juice.
• Place a dry frying pan on medium heat, pour in sunflower oil and heat. Put onions, cut into medium slices. After the onion has acquired a golden color, you can take it out of the oil with a slotted spoon and discard it.

• Pour boiling oil quickly onto grated carrots, mix thoroughly. In order for the appetizer to be well marinated with spices, you need to put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
• Korean-style carrots are ready, you can serve them as a salad or a side dish for main dishes.

If the salad is too spicy, you can add some peeled walnut kernels to it, this will help soften the taste.

Korean carrots with cloves and coriander

A very spicy, tasty appetizer with a pleasant aroma of garlic and spices. Usually, Korean carrots are bought ready-made in the nearest supermarket, but it is better to cook this vegetable dish at home according to the recipe below with a photo step by step.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of carrots;
• 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper;
• 0.5 teaspoon of red ground pepper;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 1 pinch of ground coriander;
• 3 carnations;
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar;
• 4 tablespoons of vinegar;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 bay leaves.

Preparation:

Rinse pre-peeled carrots, chop with a special grater. The result should be thin strips of the same length. And the longer the grated carrot is, the better

• Peel the head of garlic with large cloves, chop it, passing it through a press. Add to a bowl with grated carrots. Garlic will add piquancy and pungency to the finished snack.
• It's time to add all the necessary spices: red and black ground pepper, bay leaf, ground coriander and cloves. Pour in table salt and granulated sugar.
• Pour in vinegar and sunflower oil. At this stage of cooking, you can adjust the pungency of the finished carrots. But at the same time, one must not forget that after insisting, the carrots will become more acute.

• Transfer the vegetables to the prepared enamel pot. Tamp the top a little with a spoon or hands so that the carrots let out as much juice as possible.
• Place a flat plate on top of the carrots, and place a liter jar filled with water on top. Infuse carrots for 3 days, then transfer to a suitable container and store in the refrigerator.

If desired, add onions and finely chopped fresh cilantro to the vegetable appetizer to add spice.

Korean carrots with sesame seeds

The recipe for the most delicious Korean carrots with a spicy taste of spices deserves a worthy place in the cookbooks of modern housewives. This appetizer is very easy to make at home. The salad can be varied to your liking with other ingredients: Brussels sprouts or cauliflower, celery root, walnuts or sesame seeds.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of carrots;
• 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 4 tablespoons of vinegar;
• spices for Korean carrots;
• 1, 5 tablespoons of sesame seeds;
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar.

Preparation:

1. Cut the peeled and washed carrots in advance into thin and long strips or grate them on a special grater.
2. Cut the peeled garlic cloves into very small cubes or pass through a press.
3. In a deep bowl, combine finely chopped garlic, grated carrots, table vinegar, granulated sugar, spices.
4. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, place over medium heat. Heat, then very quickly pour over the spiced carrots.
5. At the very end, add sesame seeds, mix all the ingredients. Place the prepared vegetable salad in the refrigerator and stand for 12 hours. After that, Korean carrots can be served to the table as an addition to the main dishes.

Instead of sesame seeds, you can add a few drops of sesame oil to your carrots to add a pleasant aroma to the vegetable snack.

Korean carrots with mushrooms

A spicy Korean salad will look very tempting both on the everyday and on the holiday table. The mushrooms added to the dish are saturated with the aromas of spices and garlic, acquiring an incredible taste. The appetizer is prepared very simply according to the presented recipe with a photo step by step.

Ingredients:

• 3 carrots;
• 500 grams of champignons;
• 6 cloves of garlic;
• 1 blue onion;
• 50 ml vinegar;
• 70 ml of sunflower oil;
• ½ teaspoon of ground black pepper;
• ½ teaspoon coriander seeds;
• 1/3 pod of hot red pepper;
• 2/3 teaspoon granulated sugar;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 pieces of lettuce leaves;
• 4 sprigs of dill.

Preparation:

• Rinse mushrooms and carrots under the tap, remove all darkened areas and carefully cut off the ends.
• Put the mushrooms in a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil. Add salt to taste, cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.

• Chop the carrots with a special grater to get long enough pieces. If there is no special grater, you can chop the vegetable with a thin-bladed knife.
• Put grated carrots in a deep bowl, you can mash it with your hands a little to make the juice stand out.

Add granulated sugar and table salt, ground black pepper, garlic cloves passed through a press. Thoroughly grind the coriander seeds in a mortar, pour over the carrots. Thanks to this technique, the dish will acquire a pleasant aroma of spices

• Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and pour it very quickly over the vegetables.
• At the very end, pour in table vinegar, mix all the ingredients well.
• Cut the mushrooms into thin quarters, add to the carrots. Small mushrooms can be left intact.

• Peel the head of blue onions, cut into thin half rings. Chop fresh dill and lettuce finely. All chopped ingredients are also added to the carrots.
• To make the salad spicy, you can add a few chopped red chilli pepper rings to it.

• Cover the container on top with a foil, place any load on top (a can or a plastic bottle of water).
• Put the prepared salad in the refrigerator, leave for 24 hours, after which you can serve it to the table.

Ready-made Korean-style carrots go well with meat or fish dishes, boiled potatoes or other side dishes.

Homemade Korean-style carrots turn out to be very tasty, with a pleasant aroma of garlic and spices. The recipes presented can be varied to your liking by adding other ingredients: any suitable spices, chopped walnuts, other vegetables, fresh herbs.