Fried cucumber: different recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Such a crop as a cucumber has always been considered a salad crop. The vegetable was usually eaten canned or raw, without any heat treatment. Recently, however, there has been a growing trend in cooking dishes that use fried cucumber. This trend came from the countries of the Asian region, such as China, Korea and so on. This product is very tasty and unusual, and you can cook it in different ways.

Cooking technology

Roasted cucumber can be made with hot spices. The process can be summarized as follows:

1. Soak 10 shiitake mushrooms in warm water.
2. Peel two long cucumbers, ginger and carrots, all cut into strips. Grind the shiitake and one chili pepper in the same way.
3. Heat a frying pan very strongly, pour a little oil into it (enough for frying). First throw in the ginger and finely chopped 3 cloves of garlic, then after about 30 seconds put the cucumbers,then, with a short interval, carrots and mushrooms.
4. Taste the vegetables with a pinch of sugar, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, mirin or sherry. After that, you need to add sesame oil, add chopped pepper and green onion and fry for about 1 minute.

Other recipes

You can also cook fried cucumber as a side dish for a hot meat dish. For this you need:

1. Cucumbers (600 g) peeled and divided into 4 longitudinal parts. Season with a marinade of a quarter teaspoon of s alt, half a spoon of sugar and three large spoons of vinegar. The mass should be well saturated with the solution, for this it is better to put the container with the vegetable in the refrigerator.
2. Cucumbers should be divided into 2 equal parts, roll one of them in starch and fry in well-heated oil. Take out the cucumbers, let the oil drain. After that, roll the cucumbers in pre-chopped walnuts with nutmeg.
3. The second half should be fried without breading and cut into small pieces. Soak the mass with soy sauce and minced garlic.
4. Put a large fried cucumber in a salad bowl, and the chopped mass on top.

There are other ways in which you can cook fried cucumbers (for the winter, however, it is not recommended to harvest vegetables processed in this way). For example, you can make a Korean salad with this ingredient. This treat can be obtained by following these steps:

1. 300g beef cut into thin strips and fry, lightly s alted.
2. Chop one carrot and two onions in the same way. Fry vegetables in a separate pan.
3. Cut cucumbers into circles. Fry also separately. Put in a large container. Add other vegetables and meat.
4. Sprinkle the whole mass with vinegar (about a third of a teaspoon) and mix with chopped garlic (5 cloves) and pepper (a small spoon). Add s alt if necessary.
5. Heat 2 large tablespoons of oil (any vegetable) and pour over the salad.

Knowing how to cook fried cucumbers, you can diversify the diet of households. This dish will be very useful on the festive table, they can be treated to friends and family. The treat is prepared quickly, and you can get a good result.