If you want to complement the festive table with a spicy dish that is bright in taste and appearance, then Korean carrots are an ideal choice. It can act as an independent snack, and be part of the original salad, and serve as a filling for the roll. Guests will not leave her unattended in any case.

Korean carrots: a classic way of cooking

This salad was invented by Koreans who lived in the Soviet Union when they tried to create a dish similar to their national cuisine. An unusual combination of bitterness, sourness, pungency and sweetness came to taste and many others. Since then, the popularity of food is only growing, and with options for its preparation you can fill out a whole notebook. The Korean carrot recipe at home is suitable for any housewife: it is easy to cook, and the ingredients of the appetizer are inexpensive and affordable.

What will be needed to implement it?

  • 1 kg of juicy and preferably large carrots (to make it convenient to cut or grate it).
  • 6 medium cloves of garlic.
  • Large onion.
  • 6 peas of black pepper.
  • One and a half teaspoons of ground red pepper.
  • A teaspoon of coriander.
  • One and a half teaspoons of salt.
  • 150 ml of olive oil.
  • 2 tablespoons of wine vinegar.
  • One and a half tablespoons of sugar.

Step by step cooking instructions

  1. Root crops are thoroughly washed, cleaned. Grind on a special grater or cut with a knife in the form of thin straws.
  2. Sprinkle with salt, sugar, and garlic (squeezed through the garlic).
  3. In a mortar we crush coriander and peppercorns.
  4. Shred the onion.
  5. Pour the vegetable oil into a sufficiently large pan and heat it.
  6. Pour ground spices and onions, fry everything for five minutes.
  7. After that, remove the fried onions with a slotted spoon.
  8. Wet the carrots with wine vinegar and pour the resulting sauce with spices and a touch of onion.
  9. Close the lid tightly and leave it to warm for half an hour.
  10. Open the dish, mix thoroughly, put in a food container and put in the refrigerator for ten to eleven hours.

If time is running out: a quick recipe for Korean carrots

 

When the guests are almost on the doorstep, and you want to surprise and please them, you can use the recipe, which does not take a lot of time to prepare. The process itself will take less than an hour, plus two or three hours, so that the dish is infused and acquires the proper taste and juiciness.

We will prepare:

  • a kilogram of carrots;
  • large garlic head;
  • a pinch of ground coriander;
  • a teaspoon of ground black pepper;
  • three tablespoons of vinegar;
  • three teaspoons of sugar;
  • half a glass of sunflower oil.

Now you can start cooking

  1. Pour the previously washed and grated straws into the pan, pour the vinegar.
  2. In another container, bring the sunflower oil almost to a boil, fill it with vegetable.
  3. We squeeze garlic into the dishes with carrots and butter, add spices, salt with sugar.
  4. Let the salad stand for two to three hours, and then serve.

Whip up marinade

In order for the “quick salad” to acquire a complete taste, we will prepare the same quick dressing for it. We will need a large onion, sunflower oil and 9% table vinegar.

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  1. Without sparing, pour the oil into a preheated pan.
  2. We cut Chipolino into large fragments and pour it there. We wait until the onion gets a golden color, then remove it with a slotted spoon.
  3. We let it cool, water the cooked salad, put it under the press for half an hour, then “transfer” it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. The finished dish will become very juicy.

Salad "kaleidoscope"

Korean carrot, as already mentioned, is served on the table not only as a separate part of the menu, but also as a component of a variety of dishes. This is a very "sociable" product, it is very organically combined with a variety of components and fits into various culinary delights. For example, it perfectly sets off the taste of meat.

Chicken appetizer

 

A salad with Korean carrots and chicken is a favorite food of many. It can be found on both the everyday and the holiday table. Moreover, each housewife is guided by their cooking instructions. Here is one of them.

We need:

  • 250 grams of Korean carrots;
  • two chicken fillets;
  • four testicles;
  • 200 grams of hard cheese;
  • 250 grams of salad mayonnaise;
  • large orange;
  • greenery.

The order of preparation.

  1. Cook hard-boiled eggs, boil the fillet and let cool.
  2. We cut the meat into thin cubes, rub the eggs with a grater or crush with a fork.
  3. Grind the cheese, peel the orange from the zest and cut into cubes.
  4. At the bottom of the salad bowl, lay out a layer of chicken and pour with mayonnaise.
  5. Put carrots on top, grease it with sauce too.
  6. Now the turn of the orange layer (do not forget to cover it with mayonnaise).
  7. Then the egg layer (and mayonnaise again).
  8. Sprinkle cheese on top and decorate with herbs.

By the way, such a salad can be served in the form of a “puff pie” and mix the ingredients.

A rich flavor and an additional aroma of haze will please homemade recipes with smoked chicken.

Take:

  • a quarter kilogram of Korean carrots;
  • a pound of smoked chicken;
  • large sweet pepper;
  • red onion;
  • low-fat mayonnaise.

Stages of cooking:

  1. Separate the meat from the bones, use a knife to cut into strips.
  2. We chop the onion in half rings, and turn the pepper into cubes.
  3. Pour everything into a salad bowl, add hot carrots, mayonnaise and mix.

Hostesses give such food various flavoring notes: through canned corn, grated hard cheese or crackers with a cheese tint.

Korean Carrot with Beans

 

This dish is also called "Bright salad": the color contrast of the vegetables included in it is impressive and causes appetite.

Take everything you need for cooking:

  • a jar of red beans;
  • two sweet peppers;
  • half a teaspoon of black pepper;
  • half a lemon;
  • 350 grams of hot carrots;
  • three tablespoons of soy sauce and olive oil;
  • a teaspoon of salt;
  • two garlic prongs;
  • a bunch of parsley.

We act according to plan.

  1. Straw sweet pepper.
  2. Add Korean carrots and beans to it.
  3. Solim.
  4. Combine soy sauce and vegetable oil in a separate bowl, add crushed garlic.
  5. Add black pepper to the mixture, pour into vegetables.
  6. Mix thoroughly, send for 5 -7 hours to the refrigerator so that the ingredients are thoroughly soaked.
  7. Decorate the finished dish with parsley. You can also chop greens and add to the salad.

Korean carrots with mushrooms - a favorite of gourmets

 

The combination of these components gives a very unusual and pleasant taste. So such salads are often cooked and eaten with pleasure. Spicy carrots and mushrooms, of course, must be present in them necessarily. But the remaining components - a matter of preferences of the hostess and her immediate environment.

Let's try to “build” an interesting snack with spicy carrots, mushrooms and chicken.

Why take:

  • 300 grams of Korean carrots;
  • a pound of champignons;
  • two pieces of chicken;
  • large onion;
  • sunflower oil;
  • a couple of eggs;
  • light mayonnaise;
  • greens (to your taste);
  • salt.

Let's start the process.

  1. Finely chop the greens, chop the onion into small cubes.
  2. We cut mushrooms into quarters and fry for 10 minutes in vegetable oil along with onions.
  3. Boil the fillet, cool and chop the small cubes.
  4. Hard-boiled eggs with a fork.
  5. Put all the ingredients in a container, season with mayonnaise and mix.

If there are whole branches of greenery, you can use them for decoration.

Lavash plus Korean carrots - equal roll

Culinary specialists know many ways to turn pita bread into a full-fledged meal with excellent taste. One of these options (with a whole arsenal of options) is pita bread with Korean carrots.

What may be needed to prepare it?

  • 300 grams of spicy carrots;
  • two thin Armenian pita bread;
  • 300 grams of ham (pork or chicken);
  • four hard-boiled eggs;
  • a pair of garlic cloves;
  • 200 grams of cheese;
  • 300 grams of mayonnaise;
  • fresh chopped greens.

What are we doing?

  1. We lay out one pita bread on the working surface and coat well with mayonnaise.
  2. Place a layer of ham, turned with a knife into a thin straw.
  3. Sprinkle grated eggs on top, lightly cover with mayonnaise.
  4. We put the second pita bread, soak with the rest of the mayonnaise, but already mixed with crushed garlic.
  5. Now upstairs is a layer of grated cheese, Korean carrots on it, then greens.
  6. The final touch - we form a roll, put it in a plastic bag and send it to the refrigerator to get it.

Seasoning for Korean carrots: cooking yourself

Of course, you can always buy such a seasoning in the store. But who knows what quality products were taken for its production in the factory? And what is done at home is known and safe.

You just need to have a set of spices for this:

  • basil;
  • garlic;
  • coriander;
  • nutmeg;
  • ground black and red pepper.

Depending on the recipe chosen, all this is added to the carrot in a certain sequence. You only need to know some secrets that will help the dish to become attractive and tasty.

  1. Garlic is added to the salad only after oil: it can turn green from hot oil.
  2. Spices interfere with vegetable oil (sunflower, olive, corn, sesame) during its heating.
  3. Greens are best used at the final stage.

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