Kitchen appliances and utensils: cooker, frying pan, stirring spatula, knife, cutting board, bowl, spoon, garlic press, serving plate.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
Cucumbers (small) | 14 pcs. |
Table vinegar | 2 tbsp. l |
Soy sauce | 2 tbsp. l |
Sunflower oil | 2 tbsp. l |
Salt | 2 tsp |
Red hot ground pepper | 0.5 tsp |
Bay leaf (whole) | 2 pcs. |
Sesame seeds | 2 tbsp. l |
Garlic | 6 cloves |
Step cooking
- I wash the cucumbers well under running water. It is advisable to take cucumbers of the same size. Then they are perfectly marinated. Cut off the tips of the cucumbers and cut them lengthwise into four parts.
- Put chopped cucumbers in a bowl, add bay leaf, salt, red pepper, soy sauce, vinegar and sunflower oil. You can also use any other vegetable oil of your choice.
- Peel the garlic and squeeze it to the rest of the ingredients in a bowl using a press. You can also chop it finely with a knife.
- We put the pan on the fire, pour a little sunflower oil and pour the sesame seeds. You need to fry for 1-2 minutes, continuously stirring with a spatula. Sesame should turn golden.
- Pour the fried sesame in a bowl to the cucumbers. Mix everything carefully and gently, cover and put in the refrigerator for several hours.
- Put the finished cucumbers in Korean on a plate and serve. Enjoy your meal!
Cooking options
There are also other options for cooking Korean fried cucumbers:
- You can add wasabi sauce.
- You can also add paprika.
- There are recipes with carrots.
- Some hostesses prefer to add salad pepper.
- You can add greens to taste.
- There is also a recipe with meat.
- You can cut the cucumbers into thin slices or cubes.
- In some recipes, cabbage is added.
- There are recipes with added sugar or honey.
- Some hostesses also canned such a wonderful snack for the winter.
- It’s good to add a little coriander to such a dish.
- You can also finely chop the hot pepper in this appetizer.
- There is a Korean recipe for cucumbers where starch is added.
To your taste, you can reduce or increase the proportions of the ingredients in the composition of the dish.
Video recipe
We offer you to watch the video recipe for cooking cucumbers in Korean. The author of the plot tells in detail about each stage of cooking. And you can also see which dish is the result.