Delicious Korean Cucumbers

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

• Category:

  salads

• Cooking time:

  30 minutes

Ingredients

• cucumber
• carrot
• garlic
• vinegar
• sugar
• salt
• vegetable oil
• seasoning for Korean carrots

If you like spicy dishes, then you will definitely like Korean cucumbers - a savory snack that you can eat right away, or you can prepare it for the winter. Consider the most delicious Korean cucumber instant pickle recipe.

Cooking tips

Try to choose oblong cucumbers with small seeds, thin skin, and taste without bitterness. Remember that, despite the presence of vinegar, the salad cannot be stored for a long time (only if you do not roll it up): in a cool place, a snack can stand for two or three days, no more.

Despite the fact that this is a national Korean dish, you can vary the degree of spiciness. So, if you cannot eat spicy, you can not add hot pepper at all - the dish will not lose anything from this.

Alternatively, you can mild the cucumbers and add the spicy mixture as you eat them.

Such a mixture is made from garlic and ground pepper. If you like very hot dishes, then you can add coarsely ground chili.

Usually, onions, garlic, carrots are added to a salad with Korean cucumbers. But you can experiment by changing the recipe the way you like it, adding ingredients for more complex salads.

Korean salad with cucumbers and carrots

Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 2 kg;
• carrots - 200 g;
• sugar - 50 g;
• salt - 1 tbsp. l.;
• vinegar 9% - 150 ml;
• seasoning for Korean carrots - 1 tbsp. l.;
• garlic - 2 heads;
• vegetable oil - 200 g.

Cooking method:

Wash the cucumbers well and then cut into strips

• Peel the carrots, grate. Ideally, you will need a Korean carrot grater for this salad.
• Stir the vegetables. Chop the garlic and add to them.
• Add seasoning, sugar and salt.

• Now it's time to add the dressing - vinegar and vegetable oil.
• Korean cucumbers are ready! Put the salad in the refrigerator for 24 hours so that the cucumbers marinate well.

As you can see, this is not only the most delicious quick-cooking recipe for spicy cucumbers, but also the simplest.

The salad can be served immediately, and if you are making preparations for the winter, you can roll it up. To do this, put the salad in sterilized jars, pour the brine that appears while the cucumbers are pickled, cover with lids. Sterilize within 10 minutes. Then roll up the lids.

Korean cucumbers with soy sauce

This recipe uses soy sauce as a dressing.

Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 0.5 kg;
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp l.;
• vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• ground pepper (red and black) - 1/3 tsp each;
• salt - half a teaspoon.;
• sesame seeds - 1 tbsp. l.;
• garlic - 4 cloves,
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

• Rinse the cucumbers thoroughly, cut off the ends with a knife.
• Next, the vegetables should be chopped. Unlike the previous recipe, cut them not into thin strips, but rather large pieces: first cut lengthwise into two halves, then each half into two parts. If the cucumbers are large, then cut each part into smaller ones.

• Salt the cucumbers well, for which we put them in a deep saucepan and cover with salt. The amount of salt depends on how much you like pickles. Stir the vegetables, leave to salt for half an hour.
• Meanwhile, while the cucumbers are pickling, prepare the garlic. If you like spicy dishes, then you can take more garlic than indicated in the recipe. Peel the garlic, rinse the slices under running warm water. Do not chop or crush the cloves, but cut them into smaller pieces.

• We return again to the cucumbers, which should have been salted during this time. Drain all liquid from the pan.
• Add red and black ground pepper to the cucumbers (the amount can vary depending on how much peppery dishes you like), then soy sauce and vinegar.
• Stir the vegetables well.
• Now let's prepare the sesame seeds. To do this, fry them in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil until they turn golden.

• Add toasted sesame seeds along with oil to cucumbers.
• Add the garlic in the last step.

Korean cucumbers with soy sauce and spicy sesame flavor are ready. This is the most delicious recipe for instant cooking of spicy hot cucumbers!

Korean style meat salad with cucumbers

We've covered how to make Korean-style cucumbers as a vegetable snack. Another most delicious recipe for instant hot cucumbers is with beef. This is also a well-known recipe for the national Korean cuisine: in Korea, the salad is called "Ve-cha". Thanks to the beef, the salad is very satisfying. It can be served both as a salad and as a meat appetizer. This salad can be eaten both hot and cold.

Ingredients:

• beef - 400 g;
• cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
• bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• ground red pepper - 1 tsp;
• sugar - half tsp;
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• soy sauce - 4 tablespoons l.;
• vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• ground coriander - 1 tsp

Cooking steps:

1. Wash cucumbers thoroughly. If the rind is thin, you do not need to cut it off.
2. Cut into strips, put in a bowl, salt. Leave the chopped vegetables for half an hour so that they are properly salted.
3. We also cut the beef into thin strips. Please note that if the meat is slightly frozen, then it will be easier for you to chop it.
4. Cut the onion into half rings.
5. When the cucumbers are salted, drain the excess water from them. Then add hot pepper, sugar, coriander to them.
6. Chop the garlic and send it there.
7. Fry the chopped meat, for which we put it in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. When the meat is browned, add the onion and soy sauce to it. We continue to fry until tender.
8. We shift the meat to the cucumbers, put the bell pepper cut into strips on top.
9. Pour vinegar, leave to infuse for 5-7 minutes.

Korean cucumbers with meat are ready! This is the most delicious instant Korean recipe for an original meat dish!