This widely known dish of traditional Korean cuisine fell in love with gourmets far beyond the borders of the country, which had the honor of being called his homeland. An amazing treat combining a salad, a first course and a side dish, which, according to reviews, is able to feed the whole family to dinner at dinner, famous for its lightness, freshness and divine taste - all this is kuksi. The recipe for this exotic dish suggests that this soup can be served both cold and hot - it will warm in the winter cold and cool in the summer heat.
Acquaintance
Korean-style kuksi is a national dish made from meat, noodles and vegetable salads. Experts believe that strictly classical traditions of cooking treats are lost.
Many cooks, having learned the basics of cooking kuksi, prefer to experiment endlessly with the recipe for using its components. This dish cannot be unequivocally classified as soups or salads - it harmoniously combines rich soup, hearty side dish, and fresh salad. According to reviews, kuksi in Korean, served for lunch, can replace the whole familiar set of lunch dishes. Egg pancake and thin noodles in it are in perfect harmony with fresh vegetables, and fried meat makes the broth very hearty and rich. Spices and spices used in kuksi successfully emphasize the taste of all components and create its amazing aroma.
How to cook kuksi at home?
Many lovers of Korean cuisine enthusiastically respond to this dish, recalling how professionally cooked by specialized national restaurants cook it. But some dare to cook up treats at home. Cooking kuksi in the home kitchen is better to postpone for the time being, when there is no need to rush anywhere. The process takes a lot of time.
Classic kuksi: recipe
Those who manage to try this national Korean dish as a guest, long make assumptions about its composition, trying to unravel the secret of the amazing, memorable taste of this dish. Having treated at least once to kuksi (the recipe in its traditional, classical version is presented later in the article), many become devoted fans of this dish.
Ingredients
For the preparation of kuksi use:
- beef (1 kg);
- white cabbage or Beijing cabbage (200 grams);
- noodles (rice) 300 g;
- three cucumbers;
- three tbsp. l sauce (soy);
- three tbsp. l pasta (tomato);
- 4 things. onions;
- two table. tablespoons of vinegar (9%);
- to taste - spices (preferably sharper and more).
Cooking
The meat is cut, all veins are removed, washed. Cook over medium heat for 2.5 hours. Shredded straws cucumbers and cabbage. Add salt, vinegar (one table. Spoon), sugar, oil (vegetable), spices (to taste) and mix. Next, cook the noodles (you can - spaghetti). After the meat is ready, it is cut into strips, then the onions are cut, everything is mixed and fried in oil (vegetable) until the onion becomes golden. Then add spices and soy sauce. Next, put three tables in the broth. tablespoons of pasta (tomato) and one table. a spoonful of vinegar, to taste - pepper. Then the dish is laid out in layers.
The first layer will be laid out from noodles, the second - from meat and onions, the third will be represented by a salad of cabbage and cucumbers. At the end, everything is filled with broth. This dish should have a certain sharpness. It is served cold to the table.
Hot Option
Kuksi, served hot, will also not leave anyone indifferent. Cooking hot kuksi is quite simple and fast. Used by:
- sauerkraut (can be replaced with fresh);
- tomato and cucumber (large);
- 300 g of spaghetti;
- 0.3 kg of meat (any);
- 1 egg
- to taste - spices (sugar, salt, pepper, dill, vinegar, cilantro).
How to cook?
Pour the juice from the cabbage, put it in a roasting pan, pour water and leave to stew. Break the egg, add spices. Mix everything with a fork. Egg pancake is fried on both sides, cut into small pieces. In boiling broth (it can be replaced with water) add pepper (black and red), salt, sugar. Next, pour half a teaspoon of vinegar. Add cilantro and dill. After that, a cucumber is cut. Boiled meat is separated from the bones and cut into small pieces. Chopped tomato. All necessary products are ready.
Assembly
Lay out the layers in a cup:
- from spaghetti;
- from stewed cabbage;
- from cucumber;
- from pieces of egg pancake;
- from meat;
- from the broth
Soy sauce is added to create a richer flavor.
Another hot dish
Kuksi with meat, cooked according to this recipe, turns out to be spicy, very satisfying, with a fresh aroma of vegetables and herbs. Experts advise housewives to be imaginative and experiment, choosing a variety of vegetables for its preparation and changing the features of the serving. You can generally exclude meat from the recipe and make this dish vegetarian. Many people really like the fact that kuksi can be consumed both in cold and in hot form. In the recipe described below, the dish is recommended to be served hot.
Structure
For cooking use:
- wheat or buckwheat noodles (150 g);
- beef (up to 4 slices);
- eggplant (2 pieces);
- 600 ml of broth (beef);
- 1 tomato;
- three cucumbers;
- 4 slices of daikon;
- two eggs;
- 2 tbsp. l oil (vegetable);
- 1 PC. hot pepper;
- sesame oil (a few drops);
- sauce (soy): 3 tbsp. l .;
- 5 tooth. garlic
- vinegar (rice): 1 tbsp. l .;
- quarter tsp Sahara;
- cilantro;
- to taste - salt, pepper.
Cooking
Boil the meat, cut into strips, and cut fresh cucumber and daikon. Peel the tomato from seeds and peel, cut into strips. Finely chop the garlic, pepper and cilantro with a knife. Next, one hard-boiled egg is cooked, after which it is cooled, peeled and cut in half. Cucumber is salted and mixed well, let the juice drain, squeeze and season with vinegar and sugar. Boil the noodles until cooked, washed under cold water and flavored with oil. A raw egg is salted and whipped with a fork. Next, over medium heat, fry the pancake, roll it into a tube, cut into thin strips. The meat is fried in oil with eggplant, after which soy sauce is added to it, a little broth and evaporated. The broth is brought to a boil and pepper (hot) and soy sauce are added to it to taste. Then, in deep bowls, lay the noodles, add meat and vegetables, fill everything with broth and spread the halves of boiled eggs. Top all sprinkled with sesame seeds and served to the table.
Pork and chicken broth
This popular Korean dish is differently prepared in every kitchen. Recipes are constantly changing. Mistresses are happy to share their secrets with each other, offering more and more new interpretations of cooking kuksi. Some people find the recipe described below truly ideal.
Composed of
Use:
- thin spaghetti from durum wheat varieties (300-400 g);
- 0.2 kg of pork (pulp);
- Bulgarian sweet pepper (green) - 300 g;
- 2 pcs. white onion;
- 0.5 kg of cucumbers;
- tomatoes (500 g);
- white cabbage (500 g);
- 3 chicken eggs;
- garlic (5-6 tooth.);
- seasoning "Lotus" οΌ
- salt (2 tsp);
- dill (1 bunch);
- chili pepper (1 tbsp. l.);
- water (1-2 liters);
- sugar (10 tsp);
- soy sauce (4 teaspoons);
- 2 tsp vinegar 9%;
- chicken (for broth).
Step-by-step cooking: cooking chibi and spaghetti
Chibi is cooked first. Sunflower oil is heated in a pan and pepper (hot, red) is added to it. Mix well and immediately turn off the fire. Next, the oil with pepper should be completely cooled.
Koreans usually use special noodles for kuksi - the so-called. a little baby. In this recipe, it is replaced by spaghetti. You should definitely use thin spaghetti durum wheat varieties. They are boiled to an al dente state, thrown into a colander and left to drain, then placed in a deep container and cooked chibi is added to prevent sticking. Then spaghetti is divided into 4 equal parts and form glomeruli from them.
Salads and Meat
The next step will be cooking salads for kuksi. Onions need to be cleaned and soaked in cold water. Cut into rings or half rings and send to a preheated pan, onto which a little vegetable oil should first be poured. Fry the onion until transparent.
Then the meat is washed and blotted with a paper towel. Cut into cubes or cubes and spread in a pan, where the onions were fried.
Peel the tomato. To do this, the vegetable is immersed in boiling water for one minute, then abruptly transferred to cold water. You should not forget to make a few shallow cuts on it. The peel is carefully removed, the tomato is cut into small pieces, after which it is sent to the pan with onions, mixed well and stewed all together until tender.
The next step is to cook the bell pepper, from which the stem is cut and seeds are removed. Next, thoroughly wash and cut into strips of medium size. Pepper is added to the pan with meat and vegetables and stewed for another 5-10 minutes. At this time, you can peel the garlic (a few cloves), chop finely or pass through a press. It is crushed together with salt and ground cilantro added to vegetables. All is thoroughly mixed, transferred to a salad bowl and left to cool completely.
Next should do cucumbers. Fresh vegetables are thoroughly washed and cut into thin rings. Then they must be folded into a container, salt well and mix. After the juice is secreted, the cucumbers squeeze out a little and drain the excess liquid. Next, heat oil (vegetable) in a small frying pan, add half the onion, sliced ββin half rings. It is sautΓ©ed for several minutes, cooled and transferred to dishes with cucumbers. Shredded garlic, tomato, ground cilantro and Lotus seasoning (to taste) are sent there. Everything is thoroughly mixed and placed in a voluminous salad bowl.
Next, chopped onions are put on a pan heated with 50 ml of oil (vegetable) and fry it until a golden crust appears. Add chopped peeled tomato and finely chopped cabbage.
Vegetables should be salted, mixed thoroughly and stew until cooked. After they become soft, they add dried cilantro, chopped garlic, fresh dill, and Lotus seasoning. Vegetables are mixed with spices and transferred to a separate salad bowl.
Egg pancakes
Next, prepare egg pancakes. Chicken eggs are placed in a small container, salt is added and beaten. The pan is greased with butter (creamy or vegetable) and warms up well. Half of the egg mixture is poured into it evenly and fried over medium heat from 2 sides. It is necessary to avoid overdrying the egg pancake. The second half of the mixture is fried in the same way. After the egg pancakes have completely cooled, they are cut into strips (large).
What is poured over kuksi?
One of the most crucial moments is the preparation of water for our dish, the quality of which depends on its taste. 1 liter of boiled or purified water is poured into a capacious container. Salt, vinegar, sugar, sauce (soy), and also the Lotus seasoning (one pinch) are added to it with a prescription. All components are completely dissolved, after which the water is put in the refrigerator. This option is used to make cold kuksi.
If there is a desire to cook kuksi exactly hot, then you should cook chicken broth. At the same time, it is brought to a boil, after which the first water is drained. Rinse the chicken well from the resulting dark foam and return it to the pan. Pour purified water there, add a little salt and bring to a boil again. The fire is reduced and the broth is boiled for 30-45 minutes.
How to form a kuksi?
In order to form our ready-made treat, in the center of a deep, wide dish lay a ball of noodles seasoned with hot oil. Pour the noodles with hot chicken stock or cold water. Then it is covered with stew, cooked vegetable salads and straws from egg pancakes. Sometimes, only one tablespoon of each of the salads is enough, the size of the dish should be considered. If the sharpness and richness of taste are lacking, you can season the treat with a small amount of chibi. The resulting kuksi with its colorful appearance, spicy aroma and unsurpassed taste will surprise and delight your guests and home.