Korean cucumber salad for winter with carrots

3 servings
3 hours

How to make Korean cucumbers for the winter with carrots? This recipe involves the use of even cucumbers and cucumbers, and small carrots, while it is very easy to cook. Korean carrot seasoning can be used both ready-made, which is sold in the store, and mix the spices yourself (papriku, red hot pepper, coriander). We will also need vinegar, vegetable oil, salt and sugar.

Soak the cucumbers in cold water for a couple of hours. This way we will save them from bitterness, cucumbers will become more crunchy.

Grate the carrots for Korean carrots, transfer to a bowl, salt lightly, and remember a little with your hands to make them a little softer. If there is no special grater, you can cut carrots with a knife with a thin straw. We take salt from the total amount indicated in the recipe.

Cut the tails on both sides of the cucumbers, and cut into thick strips. You can use a special shaped knife for cutting (such a knife is used to cut cheese). If you have cucumbers with seeds, or thick skin, then the seeds, and skin, are better removed.

Transfer the cucumbers and carrots to a deep bowl, better in a saucepan so that you can mix well.

Peel the garlic, grind the cloves through the press. Add the remaining salt, sugar, and spices to the garlic. You can buy spices such as paprika, red hot pepper, coriander. Mix, and take the right amount, or you can buy condiments for Korean carrots in the store. If you use the finished seasoning, then it will require 20 grams.

Add vinegar and vegetable oil to a bowl of spices and garlic, stir everything well with a spoon. Try to dissolve salt and sugar. Most likely, it will not be possible to make salt and sugar completely melt.

Pour in the spices with the oil and vinegar. Mix everything well, and leave for 1. 5-2 hours to separate juice with vegetables. After 1. 5 hours, vegetables will let in enough juice, but it is even better to leave it overnight.

In the meantime, we will deal with banks and lids. Wash them with baking soda without detergents, and sterilize them over steam, or in the oven, or on a kettle, as is convenient for you. Lids need to be washed and boiled in water for 5-10 minutes

Arrange the salad in sterile jars. More beautiful salad cucumbers in Korean for the winter with carrots looks in small cans. Carefully put pieces of cucumbers at the wall of the jar, put the salad in the center as it turns out, and put carrots on top.

Top with the stand-out juice to the top. From the indicated amount of products, a little more than 2 liters of cucumber salad in Korean for the winter with carrots are obtained.

Put the cans in a large saucepan, cover with lids, pour water over the shoulders of the cans and boil the cans for 0. 5 l - 10 minutes, 0. 7 l - 15 minutes, 1 l - 25 minutes. Roll up (twist) the lids, wrap the jars in a towel and leave to cool completely. Store it in a cool place.