Heh - korean dish with an incomparable aroma and pungent taste.
It can be prepared from different products, but one ingredient remains the same - it's carrots.
It makes the appetizer bright, juicy and perfectly harmonizes with aromatic seasonings.
Carrot Xhe is an economical, tasteful dish that you must definitely try.
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Carrot Xhe - General Cooking Principles
The basis of the snack is carrots. We choose smooth, orange and large root crops. They must be juicy, and this is not only a matter of taste. Flabby and friable carrots are difficult to grate or cut neatly. Usually, the vegetable is rubbed with straws on a special grater, less often cut. You can use special knives that resemble a peeler.
What is added in hey with carrots:
• Spices. The basis of taste and amazing aroma.
• Meat, fish, chicken. By tradition, these products are laid in raw form. But some housewives prefer to boil or fry them.
• Onion and garlic. They are added to almost all snacks: with vegetables, fish, meat.
• Vinegar. Gives taste and preserves raw fish or meat.
• Various vegetables: eggplant, peppers, tomatoes.
Fill hehe with vegetable oil. Usually it is heated very strongly, to a haze and then watered on top of a snack. Xe requires pickling and insisting. It is never consumed immediately after cooking, need to wait at least 2 hours. But in order for the taste of foods and spices to unfold, the snack is insisted 12 hours.
Recipe 1: Carrot Xhe with Meat
Beef is used. Since meat does not undergo heat treatment, you need to responsibly approach the selection and purchase the product in proven places.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of carrots;
• 400 grams of beef;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar (essence 70%);
• 1 tablespoon of salt;
• 25 grams of sugar;
• 1 spoon of Korean spices;
• 90 grams of oil;
• 1 onion;
• 0.5 l of paprika;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 0.5 tablespoons of hot pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut the garlic finely and fry in half the vegetable oil. Add Korean spices, paprika, hot pepper and warm the mixture well to dissolve the aroma. We watch, so as not to scorch, constantly stir.
2. Grate or cut peeled carrots with a long straw, mix with the contents of the pan and leave to marinate.
3. Meat should be frozen and cut into thin slices. Add sugar, vinegar essence, mix and let the beef thaw completely. Pickle 2 hours.
4. We squeeze out the moisture and vinegar from the meat, it has already absorbed all the necessary. Combine with carrots, salt mass.
5. Cut the onion into rings, fry in the second half of the butter until golden brown.
6. Pour hot onions into carrots, mix with a spatula, cover and after 2 hours you can take a sample!
Recipe 2: Carrot Heh with Fish
To cook such a carrot hey, you need any raw fish. It is better to use one in which there are few bones. It tastes good with pink salmon, zander, catfish, although some housewives manage to cook even from bony crucian carp.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of carrots;
• 300 grams of fish fillet;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 3 onions;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar 9%;
• 30 grams of soy sauce;
• 1 tablespoon of salt;
• 70 grams of oil;
• black pepper, red, coriander to taste.
Cooking
1. Lightly frozen pieces of fish are cut into strips, sprinkle with salt, pour over vinegar and leave for 20 minutes.
2. Chop the carrots, cut the onions into thin rings, chop the garlic and combine together.
3. Add spices, soy sauce and pickled fish, mix.
4. Grind the garlic.
5. Heat the oil in a frying pan to a haze, throw the garlic, fry for 3 seconds.
6. Fill the carrot mass with a hot mixture. Immediately cover, let stand for 2 hours. Then you can mix and refrigerate overnight.
Recipe 3: Herring Carrots with Herring
Fresh fish or frozen is used to make carrots with herring. Pickled or salted herring will not work. A feature of this fish snack is the addition of tomato ketchup. You can use sauce of any severity, if necessary, just add more pepper.
Ingredients
• 3 carrots;
• 1 herring;
• 2 onions;
• 1/3 cup oil;
• 1.5 tablespoons of sugar;
• salt pepper;
• a spoon of vinegar;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 2 tablespoons of ketchup.
Cooking
1. Free herring from the head, ridge and large bones. We cut into thin pieces of oblong shape. If the fish is soft, then you can freeze a little.
2. Vinegar is mixed with chopped onions and prepared herring. Leave to marinate while preparing the rest of the ingredients.
3. Cut the carrots into strips, mix with onions and herring. Salt, pepper, add ketchup and a bay leaf torn to pieces.
4. Thoroughly mix everything with your hands, try not to damage the pieces of herring.
5. Heat the oil and pour it into a snack. Done! It remains to wait at least an hour and you can try. But it is better to withstand a day in the cold.
Recipe 4: Carrot Xhe with Mushrooms
For this dish you will need fresh champignons, it is better not to use field mushrooms. We get greenhouse. Sometimes the same appetizer is made with pickled mushrooms, why not.
Ingredients
• 4 carrots;
• 150 grams of champignons;
• 2 onions;
• salt, red pepper;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar;
• 5 tablespoons of oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Three straws washed and peeled carrots, put in a cup.
2. Onions need to be cut in half rings and mixed with carrots.
3. Add vinegar, salt, a pinch of sugar and mix. Sprinkle with red pepper and chopped garlic.
4. Cut the champignons into strips. Ideally, they are added raw, but we will lightly fry them to give the appetizer a more pronounced aroma of mushrooms.
5. Heat the oil, set the maximum heat and fry the mushrooms for a minute.
6. Spread on vegetables, cover and let the snack soak in the aromas of spices.
7. After half an hour, open, mix, tamp and send to insist for at least 5 hours.
Recipe 5: Chicken Breast Carrot Hye
To prepare this snack, in addition to carrots, you will need chicken fillet and bell pepper. It is advisable to use red pods, with them carrot hey turns out more appetizing and bright.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of carrots;
• 200 grams of chicken;
• 2 bell peppers;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar;
• 100 grams of oil;
• 0.5 tsp red pepper;
• salt, sugar;
• to taste garlic.
Cooking
1. Wash the fillet, dry it and cut it into beautiful straws.
2. Mix vinegar with a pinch of salt, add a little sugar and send to the chicken. Mix, leave for an hour.
3. Rub the carrots, add them, add chopped garlic, red pepper.
4. Bulgarian pepper peel and cut into very thin rings. Mix with carrots.
5. Add the pickled chicken to the vegetables.
6. Onion cut into any pieces, you can cubes, half rings or rings.
7. Pour the oil into the pan, fry the onions.
8. Fill the salad with an oil mixture, mix.
9. We transfer to a sealed container and send to insist. The longer it is marinated, the tastier the snack.
Recipe 6: Eggplant Carrot Heh
Summer hot appetizer. For this hehe will need fresh eggplant. It is better to use young vegetables with small seeds and tender skin. If the eggplant is bitterness, then soak them in salt water in advance.
Ingredients
• 4 carrots;
• 2 eggplants;
• 1 tsp salts;
• 20 grams of vinegar;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 70 grams of oil;
• red pepper, coriander.
Cooking
1. Shred the carrots, combine with chopped onions, salt the vegetables and leave them on the table. After half an hour, drain the allocated juice.
2. Cooking eggplant. We remove the tails and tips, cut into large cubes. If necessary, soak from bitterness.
3. Now you need to cook the eggplant. For hehe they can be fried. Sometimes pieces are simply boiled in steam or in water. Choose the appropriate option. But it is very important not to bring the vegetables to softness, the slices should remain uniform and dense.
4. Cool eggplant, mix with other vegetables.
5. Add pepper, crushed coriander, pour in soy sauce and put the garlic. All these spices can not be mixed, just evenly distributed over the vegetables.
6. Vinegar mix with sugar, water the appetizer.
7. Pour oil to a very hot state, water the snack and you're done! It remains only to mix it and remove the pickle for the next few hours. Better to do heh in the morning so that it is ready in the evening. Or in the evening to enjoy a snack the next day.
Recipe 7: Carrot and Pork Hye
Another spicy appetizer with meat. Pork is much softer and more tender than beef, goes well with carrots. Cooking this option hehe requires a long pickling, but the final taste of the dish will surprise.
Ingredients
• a pound of carrots;
• 300 grams of pork;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar;
• 200 grams of onions;
• 150 grams of oil;
• red, black pepper, salt, a little sugar.
Cooking
1. Cooking pork. We remove all films and grease from a piece, we will not need it. We wipe the meat dry and cut into thin and long straws. To keep it in shape, you need to do this on the fibers.
2. Pour vinegar into the meat, mix and remove in a container. It is necessary to withstand pork in vinegar for at least 4 hours, preferably 12. We remove the container with the meat in the cold.
3. After this time, put salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar in the meat and mix. Let stand another hour.
4. We clean the onion, cut into half rings and lay on the meat.
5. Peel and rub the carrots with straws. Spread on top of the onion. Press lightly with your hands.
6. Put the pan on the fire. Pour oil and bring to a boil.
7. Spoon the carrots with hot oil, try to do it evenly. It will crack and foam a little.
8. Mix the pork with vegetables, transfer to an airtight container and remove for another 4 hours.
Carrot Heh - Tips & Tricks
• Hye will be delicious if cooked from juicy carrots. But if one was not found in the house, we rub the one that is, put it in a large colander and pour over boiling water. Few seconds. Then we shift into a cup, you can immediately add spices, vinegar. Hot carrots will absorb them faster.
• The easiest way for hehe to use ordinary spices for Korean carrots. But it turns out much tastier and more aromatic if you mix the spices yourself and grind in a mortar. To do this, lay coriander, different types of pepper, you can add a star of cloves, some dried herbs and grind well with a pestle. By the way, garlic is also recommended to grind, so that essential oils stand out from it, the appetizer has become aromatic and tasty.
• Do you doubt the quality of raw meat or fish? Marinate them in advance, add vinegar, salt and keep in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours.
• Although hehe is considered a savory snack, you can not add a large amount of pepper. You get a light and fresh salad.
