Stuffed cabbage is a traditional East European dish. However, its analogues are in Asian cuisine. What is this dish, how to cook stuffed cabbage in Korean? Read about it in the article.
An interesting menu item of Eastern European cuisine
If you decide to order cabbage rolls in a restaurant, you should know that they are traditionally prepared like this: minced meat is mixed with rice, buckwheat or corn grits and wrapped in fresh or pickled cabbage leaves. Then the semi-finished product is placed on a baking sheet or in a cauldron, add the onions and carrots fried to golden color, pour the creamy tomato sauce "with the head". Gravy must first be salt, pepper to taste, add bay leaf. After stewing until tender, periodically adding water.
There are various options for the preparation of cabbage rolls: grape, beetroot or young horseradish leaves can be used , minced meat can be vegetable, mushrooms, cracklings or barley are added to it for a change. But in any case, in the European version, this is the second dish. But in Asia, cabbage rolls are a hot snack. How to cook stuffed cabbage in Korean? The recipe is described below.
Spicy Asian appetizer: ingredients
It’s very simple to cook cabbage rolls in Korean, and an inexperienced cook will cope with the task. Products for this savory appetizer need the most ordinary, which can be easily and inexpensively bought in the nearest market or in any supermarket.
So, the ingredients for hot cabbage rolls in Korean:
- white cabbage - 1 large head;
- Korean carrot - 0.5 kilograms;
- vegetable oil (any one will do, but it is better to take sunflower) - 70-100 ml;
- vinegar 9 percent - 50 ml;
- ordinary salt (not iodized) - 1 pinch;
- beet sugar - 2 tablespoons without a hill.
Classic recipe
Boil water in a large pan, put the cabbage head without a stalk for 3 minutes (cut it out beforehand), then take it out and cool. When the cabbage has cooled, you need to carefully disassemble it into separate leaves.
Put Korean carrots on the leaves and gently wrap them so that the filling "peeks out" on one side. If the cabbage leaf is previously cut into two parts, removing the core in the middle, then we get small cabbage rolls in Korean. This is subtle work!
Now you need to cook a delicious marinade. Boil half a liter of water in a large container, pour vinegar and vegetable oil into it, add salt and sugar. Mix everything until sugar is completely dissolved. Boil again, and then carefully pour the stuffed cabbage with a hot marinade. Cover them with a plate and put a load on top (for example, a half-liter jar of water). Leave for 10 hours at room temperature, then put in the refrigerator for a day. After 24 hours, the dish is ready, you can start tasting.
Let's complicate the task
You can not buy ready-made Korean carrots, but cook it at home. This is completely uncomplicated. The hostess will need 4-5 medium-sized carrots and a pack of special spices (sold at each grocery store).
The peeled carrots must be grated on a special or ordinary coarse grater. Add spices, pour 1 tablespoon of water, mix thoroughly, leave for one hour.
The filling is even more piquant if you add chopped garlic (4-7 cloves), as well as finely chopped greens (dill, parsley, cilantro), caraway seeds.
Another option for preparing the filling
Peeled and coarsely grated carrots (4-5 pieces) need to be fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then put it in a separate deep bowl. Add salt - one tablespoon without a hill, one and a half teaspoons of ground coriander, a good pinch of ground black pepper, chopped large head of garlic. Mix everything thoroughly and leave to infuse at room temperature. Twenty minutes later, the delicious filling is ready. You can wrap cabbage rolls in Korean!
Very quick recipe
The classic recipe for cooking spicy Korean snacks takes at least a day. But what if guests should come in the evening, and the hostess wants to serve Korean cabbage with carrots as a savory snack? There is an exit. You can cook this dish according to an ultrafast recipe.
First you need to grate 5 large carrots on a coarse grater, disassemble the cabbage head into separate leaves. Next, prepare the marinade as described above. Boil it, put carrots and cabbage leaves here. Mix gently and leave for 20 minutes. After taking out the leaves from the marinade. Drain the carrots, add 1-2 chopped cloves of garlic into it. Wrap the filling in cabbage leaves in the form of rolls, which are folded into a deep container and again pour hot marinade. Leave to infuse at room temperature. An hour later, Korean cabbage rolls with carrots are ready! In total, their preparation will take 1.5-2 hours.
Now you know how to cook pickled Korean cabbage rolls. Enjoy your meal!