Korean silver carp at home

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• kitchen surface for cooking;
• kitchen knife;
• board for fish;
• kitchen scissors;
• tweezers;
• deep dish;
• tablespoon;
• pan;
• shoulder blade.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. You can use any kind of fish to make a national Korean dish like heh. In this recipe, hehe is prepared using silver carp. First it needs to be peeled and gutted. With the help of a sharp knife, an incision is made on the belly and all the insides are taken out. Washed fish under water. Cut off the head, and with kitchen scissors cut off all the fins and tail. Carefully separate the silver carp fillet from the ridge. Skin is removed from the fish at will, but you can cook with it. Bones remaining in the fillet are removed with tweezers.
   
2. Cut 1 kg of fillet lengthwise into 2 parts and cut a thicker piece into slices about 0.5 cm thick. Do not worry too much about bones that could not be removed with tweezers. Under the influence of vinegar essence, they will become soft and will not be felt. The thinner part of the fillet is cut into pieces of 1 cm. The sliced ​​fish is transferred to a deep bowl, where it will be marinated. It is important that the container is made of non-oxidizing materials.
   
3. Pieces of silver carp sprinkled with 1 tbsp. l salt and watered 2 tbsp. l vinegar essence 70%. All mix thoroughly. Do not be surprised if the fillet starts to lighten, it should be so. Cover the silver carp with a lid, pressing a little, and leave to marinate for 30 minutes.
   
4. At this time, begin to prepare other products. A kilogram of onion is peeled and cut into half rings or strips. Half of the chopped onion is poured into one bowl, and the rest into another.
   
5. Grind 7-8 heads of garlic. You can use the press or process garlic in any convenient way.
   
6. After 30 minutes, they return to the fish. By this time, a little juice will stand out from it, which can be drained or left. Re-mix the silver carp, spread chopped garlic and 1/2 part of chopped onion on it. All products are mixed by hand. A little squeeze the fish, cover and leave to marinate for another half hour.
   
7. For heh, you need a spicy dressing, which is prepared in a pan. Put it on the fire, pour vegetable oil. When the pan warms up well, add the rest of the onion and fry until it becomes a little rosy.
   
8. To the onion add 0.5 tsp. red hot pepper. You can use fresh or dried product to make he sauce. Also pour out 1 tsp. ground coriander, sweet paprika and any spice for fish.
   
9. Turn off the stove, all the ingredients in the pan are thoroughly mixed and allowed to cool for 5 minutes. At this time, the oil absorbs all the aroma and spices. To the pickled silver carp add 2 tbsp. l soy sauce and cooked sauce. Mix everything gently with your hand or a tablespoon. If desired, add 1 tbsp to the fish. l monosodium glutamate to enhance the palatability of the dish.
   
10. The bowl is closed with a lid and refrigerated for all night.The next day, take out their refrigerator well-pickled fish and mix again. You can pickle a dish and less, but the time of pickling should not be less than 6 hours. The dish is ready. Heh is poured portionwise, decorating with a slice of lemon and fresh herbs. He goes well with cilantro or parsley.
    

Video recipe

In the video you will learn how to cook such a national Korean dish as silver carp hee on your own. All necessary components and their proportions are indicated. Following the step-by-step instructions given in the video, you can easily prepare the dish and serve it beautifully to the guests.

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