Korean carrot salad

The famous Korean carrot salad, who doesn't love it. Perhaps this is the most versatile vegetable snack that is suitable for dinner or lunch, for a picnic and even for a festive feast.

An appetizer is prepared quickly and from available products. According to the classic recipe, Korean-style carrots at home will be ready in a day, when all the products are saturated with spices. Carrots will become juicy, tasty and fragrant.

Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Servings: 15.

Calories: 56.

Ingredients

• carrots - 1 kg;
• vinegar (6% -9%) - 5-6 tbsp (or to taste);
• sugar - 3 tbsp;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• vegetable oil - ½ cup (boiling);
• garlic - 4 cloves (large);
• coriander (cilantro) - 2 tsp;
• ground black pepper - 1 tsp;
• chili pepper - ¼ tsp (or to taste).

Cooking

1. Let's prepare a special grater in Korean.

2. Our carrots are chopped into even thin strips. The longer and thinner the stripes are, the more impressive the carrot will look.

3. We prepare spices and other ingredients for tasty and fragrant carrots.

4. To make carrots with a brighter aroma, it is better to take coriander in grains and chop during cooking. Moreover, it is necessary to grind half, that is, one teaspoon, and leave the second teaspoon of coriander in grains. Grains can be ground in a coffee grinder or mortar, using a pestle (grinder).

5. Press the garlic cloves on the cutting board with a wide knife blade. This makes the garlic easier to peel. Randomly chop the garlic and send it to the coriander in a mortar. Grind with a pestle. The aroma of garlic and coriander combined, it is not transferable.

6. Add salt, black and red pepper (chili) to the mortar.

7. Vinegar is better to use wine or apple. Add vinegar to the mortar and mix with other spices.

8. Pour the right amount of sugar on top of the carrots. The spices that were prepared in the mortar are also added to the carrots. Until everything is mixed.

9. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil. Gently pour the boiling oil into the carrots for spices and sugar.

10. Immediately begin to stir the carrots with a spoon. Everything must be done carefully so as not to burn yourself, because the oil is very hot. But carrots are cold, they quickly lower the temperature of the oil. After a couple of minutes, carrots can be mixed with your hands, wearing cellophane gloves. After half an hour, you can eat it like a salad. But in order for the carrots to be saturated with spicy aromas, you need to wait a day.

11. You can add cilantro greens to the finished snack. She will make the appetizer even brighter. The most delicious Korean-style carrot is ready, you will never buy such an appetizer in the market and in the store.

Now you know how to cook Korean carrots according to the classic Korean recipe at home. Make this appetizer with our recipe for your next picnic, I'm sure you'll be asked to make more of it.