Cooking Harbin salad at home

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

Harbin salad is a dish that not every housewife knows about. It doesn't take long to prepare.

Harbin salad is a Chinese dish, the real recipe of which is found only in oriental restaurants. If you want to cook it yourself at home, you can try to find the necessary ingredients that are sold in specialized stores, or replace them with more affordable and familiar ones.

In the article we will try to consider several Chinese-style Harbin salad recipes, one of which is original.

Note that with this unusual dish you can safely replace any other familiar snack on the festive table.

Since "Harbin" is a salad that belongs to oriental cuisine, it implies the use of a sufficient amount of spices in the recipe. Given this feature, it is important to feel the harmony of spices and not overdo it.

Chinese style Harbin salad: recipe

If you have ever been to Chineserestaurant, you must have tried this dish. If desired, it can be reproduced at home. To do this, you need a set of ingredients such as:

• two hundred grams of Beijing cabbage;
• a couple of medium sized carrots;
• one hundred and fifty grams of rice glass noodles;
• one fresh cucumber;
• roasted sesame seeds;
• coriander;
• s alt;
• sugar;
• ground black pepper;
• pepper, ground red;
• soy sauce;
• one tablespoon of seven percent vinegar;
• sesame oil;
• vegetable or olive oil (whatever you find).

Cooking the salad

At the first stage, we need to pickle vegetables. To do this, wash the carrots, peel and finely chop. Wash the Chinese cabbage and leave to drain on a paper towel until completely dry. After that, we chop it and send it to the carrot. We do the same with the cucumber. If its peel is a little bitter, then it is better to remove it. Mix all the vegetables and pour over the marinade. We prepare the marinade separately.

While the vegetables are marinating, boil the rice noodles for fifteen minutes.

After it is ready, wash it in a colander and add to the already pickled vegetables. Pour soy sauce here and add coriander with black pepper. Sprinkle the salad with sesame seeds before serving. We mix everything well. Harbin salad is ready.

Preparation of marinade

It is being prepared in severalstages.

Initially, pour vinegar into the container, add a couple of pinches of red pepper, a little s alt and sugar. Pour vegetables.

The next step is to mix vegetable oil with a few drops of sesame oil. The mixture is sent to the microwave. Make sure the oil doesn't boil. Otherwise, it will no longer be suitable for further use and will have to be redone.

Next, add the oil to a container with vegetables, mix them and leave to marinate for half an hour.

Harbin salad recipe with photo

Consider another recipe for such an unusual salad. When preparing it at home, some, in the absence of Chinese cabbage, try to replace it with white or blue cabbage. But in this case, the salad will lose its peculiarity and cannot be considered Chinese. Chinese cabbage has been known in the Celestial Empire since ancient times, and there salads from it are served on almost every corner. Therefore, following Chinese traditions, replacing other ingredients, we will leave Beijing cabbage.

So, we need:

• two hundred, or maybe three hundred grams of Beijing cabbage;
• half fresh cucumber;
• one small fresh tomato;
• one medium size onion;
• a few sprigs of herbs (it can be dill or parsley);
• one tablespoon of already boiled rice;
• one hard-boiled chicken egg;
• tablespoon vegetable oil;
• half a teaspoon of sugar;
• half a teaspoon of Chinese seasoning, which includes a mixture of peppers and sesame oil;
• as much Chinese sweet and sour dark soy sauce.

Step by step cooking instructions

First, prepare the vegetables:

• onions are peeled and washed;
• wash the cucumber and remove the peel from it;
• Peking cabbage leaves are divided, washed and sent to drain on a towel;
• wash the tomato and remove the skin, you can do it simply with a knife, or you can blanch it.

At the next stage, cut all the vegetables. We chop the cabbage into strips, the rest of the vegetables in the form in which you use them for a regular salad. Onion cut into small cubes.

Peel the egg, finely chop and add to the vegetables. We also send pre-boiled rice here. It should crumble and not stick together, otherwise, instead of a salad, you may end up with porridge.

Mix all the ingredients well and add the rest of the ingredients. If you can't find Chinese seasoning, then you can replace it with ground red pepper.

If you want to get as close as possible to the original salad recipe, then you need to add as much soy sauce as possible to it. Then the dish will have a pronounced brown color.

Traditional Chinese daikon salad

In our latitudes, this variation of Harbin salad is not often prepared. The recipe for cooking involves the use of daikon. You can find a root crop in the market orsupermarket or speci alty Chinese food stores. Salad with the addition of daikon will pleasantly surprise you with its taste.

We take already familiar ingredients to prepare this dish: cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, two raw chicken eggs, butter, sesame seeds, rice noodles. To them we add one green bell pepper and one daikon the size of a cucumber. Don't forget traditional Chinese spices.

Cooking steps

1. First of all, pour boiling water over rice noodles and prepare vegetables.
2. All vegetables are washed, peeled and three on a grater, on which Korean carrots are usually rubbed.
3. The same goes for peppers, even though it's not that easy to make.
4. Chicken eggs break into a plate, shake with a fork and fry in a pan. You should get an egg pancake, which we cool and cut into strips.
5. Mix all the ingredients and pour Chinese sauce, s alt.

In order for the salad to soak, it must be sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.