Cucumbers In Korean: Recipes For Quick Salad And For The Winter, Reviews

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Delicious snacks in the summer season: Korean style hot cucumbers

For many housewives and food lovers, a good snack is based on several criteria: ease of preparation, pungent taste, the use of simple, familiar products and the ability to eat at any time of the year. An excellent option for such an appetizer is Korean cucumbers. The main thing is to know a few subtleties so that this dish can be put on the table almost immediately after cooking or hidden in the underground for the winter.

Content

• 1 What you need to know before cooking
• 2 The classic recipe for Korean cucumbers with the addition of carrots

• 3 Quick Korean Cucumber Recipe (No Carrots)

  3.1 Video recipe for quick cucumbers in Korean

• 4 Korean cucumbers with meat

  4.1 Video recipe for Korean cucumbers with meat

• 5 Hostess reviews

What you need to know before cooking

Korean cucumbers are easy to cook. But many housewives, especially beginners, complain that the finished product quickly deteriorates, although the requirements of the recipe were met. There are a few basic things to do to help you not lose your ingredients and enjoy their taste all winter long.

Jars and lids should be thoroughly washed and dried well before placing ingredients in them. You can also sterilize the jars over boiling water upside down for at least 5 minutes, and boil the lids right in this water. Make sure that the jars are intact: any crack or chip on the neck will damage the finished product.

For the convenience of sterilizing cans, use special devices

Wash the cucumbers properly, wiping the surface well. It is advisable to do this under running water. The fact is that dirt particles remain between the pimples, which cause the cans to “explode”.

Rinse cucumbers and other foods thoroughly before cooking

Cut the cucumbers as you like - into bars, lengthwise or into strips, then put them in a bowl, salt and set aside for 10-15 minutes to let the juice start. Then you can add other products from the recipe.

Juice the sliced cucumbers before cooking

Classic Korean Cucumber Recipe with Carrots

Thanks to this cooking method, even cucumbers stuck in the refrigerator will turn out crispy. You will need:

• 4 kg of cucumbers;
• 1 kg of carrots;
• 1 glass of sugar 200 ml;
• 1 cup vinegar 9%
• 1 cup sugar-free sunflower oil
• 100 g of salt;
• 1 large head of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. red chili.

You can not only serve such a snack immediately after cooking, but also roll it up in jars for the winter.

Korean cucumber appetizer looks very nice on the table

1. Peel and wash the garlic. To make it easier for you, disassemble the head into teeth, dip it in a bowl of water and peel off the husk.

   

   Garlic is easy to clean by dipping the cloves in water

2. Grate thoroughly washed carrots. It is better to use a special Korean-style carrot grater: it is more convenient, and the slices are beautiful.

   

   Use a special grater for grating carrots

3. Cut the clean cucumbers into cubes: separate the ends, cut the fruits into four parts lengthwise, then another 3-4 times across.

   

   Cut cucumbers into cubes

4. Place the sliced cucumbers in a deep bowl large enough to mix comfortably. Sprinkle lightly with salt.

   

   Let the cucumbers steep with salt

5. Send carrots and chopped garlic there. It is better to squeeze it out with a press: this way it will be more evenly distributed and give the juice to vegetables faster.

   

   Add carrots with garlic to the cucumbers

6. Now is the season for seasoning. Add the remaining salt, sugar, sunflower oil, vinegar, and red pepper in turn. For those who do not like too spicy food, half of the chili can be replaced with paprika.

   

   Hot red peppers will spice up the snack

7. Stir all the ingredients thoroughly, then put the snack in the refrigerator for a day.

   

   Korean cucumbers should spend a day in the refrigerator

8. After 24 hours, Korean cucumbers can be eaten. They will have a slightly salted taste. Leave the salad in the refrigerator for 3 days if you want it to be richer.

9. If you want to roll up these cucumbers for the winter season, place them in pre-sterilized 0.5–0.7 liter jars and fill with the marinade remaining in the bowl. You will get a lot of it in the days while the salad is infused.

   

   Divide the snack into the jars and add the marinade

10. Take a large saucepan and place a towel on the bottom. Put the jars, put the lids on top. Pour cold water into a saucepan so that it reaches the hangers of the cans.

    

    Remember to cover the bottom of the pot with a towel to soften the heat on the bottom of the cans.

11. Place the saucepan over medium heat. Wait until the water boils, then boil for 10 minutes, covering the pan with a lid.

    

    Boil the jars for 10 minutes under the lid

12. It remains only to get the cans out of the water and tighten the lids or roll them up with a rolling machine.

    

    Roll up the cans and hide until winter

A quick recipe for Korean cucumbers (no carrots)

You can serve this salad within half an hour after preparation. This marinating speed is achieved by the addition of some ingredients, such as soy sauce.

Thanks to soy sauce, cucumbers will quickly marinate, and you can do without salt

Take the products:

• 400 g of cucumbers;
• 35 g onions;
• 10 g green onions;
• 10 g garlic;
• 3 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
• 2 tsp red chili peppers;
• 3 tsp sesame oil;
• 3 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds;
• 2 tsp Sahara.

As you can see, no salt is needed here: the soy sauce itself is quite salty.

1. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into 2 parts and chop into half rings no more than 1 cm thick. Then cut in the following sequence: onions - in half rings, green - into rings, garlic cloves - very finely.
2. Place all food in a high-walled bowl. Pour in soy sauce and sesame oil, add sugar, chili and sesame seeds. Mix the entire contents of the bowl thoroughly, let it brew for 30 minutes and serve.

Of course, this method is not suitable for preparations for the winter, but all summer you can enjoy this fresh snack, just prepared.

Korean quick cucumber video recipe

Korean cucumbers with meat

It turns out that this snack can be not only vegetable. Add juicy beef to it and you have a great salad with a rich, tangy flavor. For him, take:

• 400 g of cucumbers;
• 400 g of beef;
• 1 onion onion;
• 1 sweet pepper (red);
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tsp ground red pepper;
• 1.5 tsp. Sahara;
• 1 tsp coriander;
• 2 tbsp. l. vinegar;
• 4 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

The peculiarity of this salad is that it cooks quickly and can be served hot.

1. Cut the washed cucumbers with the tips cut off first crosswise, and then lengthwise into slices. Place them in a suitable bowl, sprinkle with salt and set aside for 15 minutes while they drain the juice.

   

   Sprinkle the cucumbers with salt and let sit for 15 minutes

2. Cut the beef into thin long slices. To make it easier for you, take meat that has not yet thawed. Chop the onion into thin half rings.

   

   To make meat easier to cut, do not let it defrost.

3. Squeeze the cucumbers lightly, drain the juice from them into the sink. On top of the greens, put in a heap in turn sugar, coriander, hot pepper, squeeze out the garlic.

   

   Season the prepared cucumbers with sugar and spices

4. Put a frying pan with oil on high heat, heat it up properly and fry the meat until the liquid evaporates. Stir for another 1 minute to brown the meat, then add the onion. Pour in the soy sauce and continue to fry for another 2 minutes, stirring all the time.

   

   Fry the meat with onions and soy sauce

5. Remove the skillet from the stove and immediately transfer the contents to the bowl of cucumbers.

   

   Transfer the meat to the cucumbers

6. Cut the bell peppers into strips, put on the meat, pour in the vinegar. Leave for 5 minutes and then stir the food thoroughly.

   

   It remains only to add pepper and vinegar

7. The salad is ready, you can serve it right away or wait until it cools.

   

   You can serve a snack on the table

Video recipe for Korean cucumbers with meat

Hostess reviews

We hope our Korean cucumber recipes will diversify your table this hot summer and become a favorite for your whole family. Perhaps you have been preparing this appetizer for a long time, and would like to share your recipe with our readers?