Heh from carp: preparing fish

To prepare this Korean dish, you can only use fresh fish; frozen fish will not work. When defrosted, even whole fish loses its presentation, and when cooking heh, it can become broken due to the addition of vinegar.

Having chosen fresh fish, it must be properly cut so that not a single bone remains in it. If you can buy boneless fillet, this will greatly simplify the cooking process.

A whole fish must be cleaned of all fins and the head, both fillets should be cut off from the backbone, and the costal and all other bones should be removed. Particular attention should be paid to the absence of bones, since their presence in the finished dish is unacceptable.

It should be noted that the process of preparing fish, especially cleaning the fillets from bones, can take quite a lot of time. This should be taken into account when planning the cooking time for this dish. By purchasing a ready-made fillet, rather than a whole carcass, the cooking time is greatly saved. When choosing what to buy, you should also focus on the amount of time you need to spend preparing heh.

Tips for cooking Heh from fish

Preparing such a dish is not difficult, the main thing is to follow certain rules. Korean cuisine has its own tricks, thanks to which such delicious He comes out. It is served in the most sophisticated restaurants of all countries, but if you take into account some points, you can easily prepare it at home. Main principles:

• The fish is pre-cooled and cooked only in this form.
• Before cooking, the fish must be thoroughly cleaned of scales, and the insides along with the black chaff are removed. And only after all the manipulations have been carried out, the cooking process begins.
• It is better to remove the skin as it imparts rigidity.
• It is important to remove all the bones - we take out the ridge along with the large ones, and pull out the small ones using tweezers.
• It is necessary to cut into portioned pieces with a sharp knife, so they will turn out even.
• For better taste, you need to add seasonings and spices: coriander, pepper and others.

It is forbidden to use a frozen product, since it loses all the beneficial properties and integrity of the meat.

Pre-chilled fish is used to prepare the dish.

How to cook carp heh recipes

Below we will describe three fairly simple recipes for making heh. Although they are similar in many ways, they nevertheless differ in the method of preparation and the name of the products used.

Carp heh: classic recipe

Prepared without adding cucumbers or carrots. However, the recipe calls for adding a lot of spices.

What ingredients are needed:

In addition to green cilantro, you can also use onion stems. In this case, they will need to be cut into thin rings.

Korean carp heh

Korean recipes are always spicy. You don't need to add red hot pepper to this recipe. You can replace it with a small amount of Bulgarian to get a light taste and pleasant smell. The amount of red pepper can be adjusted depending on taste preferences.

What products are needed:

You can serve this dish with lemon or lime wedges. They should not be added to salad. You can arrange them beautifully on top of the dish in thin slices.

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Heh from carp at home

Gourmets say that real carp heh is prepared only with cilantro. However, at home, there may not be enough fresh cilantro to prepare the classic recipe for this dish. Below is a recipe for making heh without cilantro.

Carp heh recipes

Delicious carp fish is good both boiled or fried, and raw. If you properly marinate pieces of carp and combine them with spices and vegetables, you will get a Korean snack known throughout the world - heh. It can be prepared in different ways, but we have chosen two of the most interesting and simple ones!

Recipe for carp and carrots

To prepare heh from carp, you will need only fresh fish, because you don’t have to process it at high temperatures! So, cook heh immediately after returning from fishing - it will come out fresh and safe. Let's take one carp, about 1.5-2 kilograms. We will also need:

• carrots - 4 pieces,
• onions - 3 pieces,
• vinegar 25% – 100-150 milliliters,
• salt, black and red pepper, coriander,
• garlic - 4 cloves,
• vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons.

A step-by-step recipe for carp heh always starts with one thing: we need to cut and slice the fish. For the convenience of eaters and easy softening of small bones, we need to cut the carp into small cubes with a side of 1.5 centimeters. To do this, we gut fresh fish, remove scales, make an incision around the head and pull the skin off the carcass. Remove the fillet from the bones and cut into pieces. Then put it in a container and sprinkle with salt, mix.

We clean the vegetables. They need to be cut: the onion into thin half rings, and the carrots into long narrow slices, as they usually cut for Korean snacks. You can use a special grater, but do not use a regular grater - the carrots on it will be too small, thin and will not crunch. Sprinkle the chopped onion with salt and squeeze well to release the juice. Add the onion to the fish, pour vinegar all together.

In a separate container, salt the carrots, sprinkle with black and red pepper, add ground coriander and 50 milliliters of vinegar. Squeeze out the carrots too. Both containers now need to be placed under a press: cover them with small flat plates, on which you can place a bottle of water. The fish and carrots are infused, but in the meantime you can calmly read about methods of catching the same carp on the “Fishing Everyone!” website.

After an hour or two, drain the liquid from the fish and carrots, mix the contents of both containers, check for salt and pepper, add spices if necessary. Cut the garlic into slices. Make a hole in the center of the fish and carrots and place pieces of garlic there. Heat the oil in a frying pan; when it starts to smoke, remove it from the heat and carefully pour it over the garlic in a thin stream. After this, mix our carp heh and let it brew for a couple of hours in the refrigerator!

Recipe for carp heh with cucumber and herbs

Since not everyone likes carrots or wants to tinker with them, you can prepare an alternative step-by-step recipe for heh - with cucumber and herbs. We take:

• carp - a carcass of 5 kilograms,
• onions - 5 pieces,
• cilantro - ½ bunch,
• parsley - ½ bunch,
• vinegar 25% – 0.5 liters,
• water - 200 milliliters,
• fresh cucumbers - 3-4 pieces,
• red and black pepper - to taste,
• hot capsicum - 1 piece,
• vegetable oil - 100 milliliters,
• soy sauce - 100 milliliters,
• salt to taste

Like any tasty fish, carp goes well with fresh herbs and fresh cucumber. And in the appetizer heh this combination is fully revealed. To prepare it, we fillet a large carp: clean, gut, remove the skin, remove the bones and backbone, cut into strips as thick as a finger. Place all the pieces (about 3 kilograms of them) into a saucepan, add some salt, add vinegar and water and leave to marinate for a while. While the fish is soaked in vinegar and softens, peel the onion and cut into strips. In a frying pan, heat about half of the total amount of oil and lightly fry the onion in it until it just becomes transparent. Cool the onion. Cut the cucumbers into long strips and finely chop the greens. Cut the hot pepper into small rings.

In the container where our carp heh will be infused, place a layer of fish, sprinkle with spices, put a layer of sautéed onions, cucumbers and herbs, a couple of onion rings, then again a layer of fish. When all the ingredients are laid out, pour them with soy sauce and the remaining oil. Let it brew and in a day the heh will be tender and incredibly tasty. Supplement it with carp fish soup and burbot cutlets, and you will become a true culinary specialist!

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History of the appearance of heh

This dish first appeared in China in the 9th century. Here it was prepared exclusively with raw fish or meat. However, over the centuries, the traditional recipe for heh has changed.

It is believed that the dish began to be prepared differently after an epidemic that struck China in the 11th century. Then, for a while, hake completely disappeared from the tables. When the terrible pestilence was left behind, people again began to make this delicious fish dish. True, new ingredients were added to it.

Today, heh is a classic Korean dish. The traditional recipe calls for spicy marinated tuna. However, they can also put whiting. For better taste, add some meat, such as beef and pork.

How to choose fish for heh

Sea fish is better suited for heh. It makes the dish tender, juicy and moderately salty. You can take fresh tuna, pink salmon, salmon or mullet. But the combination of different types of fish turns out tastier. So, in Korea they often make heh from pollock and chum salmon.

An equally tasty dish is prepared from river or lake fish. However, you need to know which one to use. Culinary experts advise adding silver carp, whitefish, pike, catfish, carp, and sterlet.

The main thing is to pay attention to how many bones are in the fish. The fewer there are, the better. For heh you only need the sirloin part.

However, river fish must be selected with caution. Roach, bream and ide can be infected with parasites. Therefore, they should be marinated first. It should be kept in the sauce for at least a day. During this time, all harmful microorganisms will die.

There is another way to destroy dangerous microbes. To do this you need to use a double boiler. Half an hour is enough for the microbes to disappear under the influence of steam.

How to cook Korean fish hye with carrots - 6 delicious recipes

Heh can be prepared in different ways. Not only the method itself changes, but also the ingredients. So, either black pepper or coriander is added to the dish. They also experiment with sauces. Some recipes add soy, while others add sweet cream.

Korean fish hye with carrots

Here the dish will be ready in 2 hours. For 4 servings of 100 g you will need:

It is better if the fillet is frozen. Preliminary heat treatment is necessary so that the fish does not overcook during cooking.

Then they begin to prepare the vegetables. The onion is peeled and cut into thin half rings. Garlic should be crushed with a mortar. Carrots, like fillets, are cut into thin strips. You can grind it faster using a special grater.

All products are mixed. Spices are added to fish, onions, garlic and carrots. It is necessary to mix the ingredients several times so that the fillet is saturated with vegetable juice.

Then you should heat the frying pan. Place the resulting mixture on hot oil and then mix thoroughly. At the same time, the dish is poured with vinegar. Heh should be cooked for 20-30 minutes over medium heat. Next, you need to reduce it so that the fish marinates for a couple of hours.

After time has passed, the dish is removed from the frying pan, allowed to cool and sprinkled with herbs. You can add additional salt, and the Korean fish heh with carrots is ready.

Classic fish heh recipe

Korea has its own way of preparing fish salad. The ingredients used here are the same as for the previous dish with carrots, but the step-by-step recipe itself is slightly different. For 3 servings you will need:

How to properly prepare khe from fish with carrots in Korean? The carcass must be processed by separating the skin from it. The finished fillet should be chopped into strips. If you come across a thick and long piece that cannot be torn apart by hand, it must be cut.

Next, prepare the filling with the addition of vinegar. 9% acid must be diluted with water. Proportions are calculated depending on what kind of dish you want to prepare: with or without a little sourness. In the first case, you should take 190 ml of water per 90 ml of vinegar, and in the second - 50 ml of acid per 250 ml of liquid. The finished family is poured over the fillet, stirred and allowed to brew for half an hour.

Recipe for “Korean Carp”:

Clean the carp and trim the fins. Remove entrails. Wash and cut into pieces convenient for eating, 3 * 5 cm. I use only the middle part, because the weight of the carp is 2 kg..

Place in a bowl, add salt, add vinegar essence and mix thoroughly. Leave for 10 minutes. Then rinse in several waters and let drain.

Peel the onion and cut into thin rings. Place onion in hot oil, stir and remove from heat. Add paprika, stir.

Add seasoning, hot red pepper, coriander, sugar to the fish.

Add onion and oil, add soy sauce. To stir thoroughly.

Place in a container with a tight lid and refrigerate for 6-12 hours.

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In Korean

The Korean carp hye recipe is distinguished by its sharpness and oriental spice. The following set of products is needed: 1 kg of fish pulp, 3 onions, a head of garlic, 4 tbsp. l. soy sauce, cilantro - a bunch, chili pod without seeds, vinegar - 50 ml, coriander seeds and ground pepper - to taste.

To prepare carp heh, you need: Cut the fillet without rough bones into strips no more than 1 cm thick. Pour vinegar into the fish in a container and marinate the flesh for 40 minutes, stirring from time to time. Chop the onion into thin rings, cut the garlic into thin slices, chop the cilantro. Grind the chili as finely as possible.

None Add spices, onions and garlic, cilantro and chili to the carp and pour in soy sauce. Leave the workpiece to marinate for an hour so that the slices are saturated with spices. Serve with thin slices of lemon or chopped green onions to taste.

The optimal weight of fish for heh is 1.5–2 kg, since small specimens are difficult to cut, and the bones of large ones will not be crushed.

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