Tasty beets in Korean - how to prepare beets in Korean at home, step by step recipe photos

Beets - one of the most useful roots. It helps cleanse the body, improvement of the liver, with regular use helps with the inevitable winter seasonal anemia and vitamin deficiency. Beets in Korean - sharp-spicy salad of raw root vegetable goes well with practically any meat, fish and vegetable dishes, stored for a long time in the refrigerator in a sealed container. If you prepare the salad portion once a week, and then every day, eat at least one tablespoon - this is a real vitamin-job "tasty and healthy food."

The technology making this aromatic salad is not too different from the usual "beets in Korean", the difference is just in the ingredients and their preparation.

We need grated on the "Korean" grated raw beets, onions and some good vegetable oil - until everything as usual. But instead finished shopping seasonings prepare:

ground cinnamon;
whole cloves;
sweet pepper;
black pepper and red pepper scalding (may be a mixture in mills);
Coriander (whole seeds);
soy sauce (preferably classical);
vinegar salad - rice, grape or apple, but in any case not white table;
natural honey;
garlic;
piece of fresh ginger root.

How to prepare beets in Korean at home

Beets in Korean will have a rich full flavor only when you use freshly ground spices (cinnamon - an exception). Therefore, we need a mortar. Pour on to a good pinch of cloves, allspice, coriander, and start to work the pestle. It is not necessary to rub the spices into a fine dust - thick and rich flavor we get already at moderate fragmentation.

Finely chop a few cloves of garlic and about the same amount by volume of fresh ginger root brushed. Important: ginger should be cut very carefully against the fibers, or in the finished dish will be completely unnecessary and very unpleasant woody fiber. Ginger and garlic to send ground spices in a mortar.

Carefully rub the whole, garlic and ginger to cast their fragrant juices.

was added to a spicy mixture of a tablespoon of honey, vinegar and soy sauce, stir thoroughly, give stand for a few minutes to the water-soluble flavors have time to wake up, and enrich the bouquet. If you then seem that the finished salad is not enough salt, or acid, vinegar and soy sauce can be added later.

We spread the contents of the mortar into the grated raw beets, add ground cinnamon and burning black and red pepper from the mills. Thoroughly mix all (better and better hands with gloves!). If necessary, add the taste of soy sauce and vinegar. Rammed and set aside aside to beet has absorbed the flavors and give juice.

Meanwhile, in a frying pan already red-hot vegetable oil. Pour chopped to half rings onions and fry until golden brown.

hot oil, has incorporated the aroma of fried onions, pour on the beets. Sam onions It is recommended to throw, but I'm too fond of fried onions and not ready for such blasphemy. So, in my version, beets in Korean comes with fried onions. Try it and you do so, may be you will like this version of the salad.

Quickly mix all and shift the container under the lid. Now, our beet must stand for several hours in a cool place to finally get to taste and flavor. If desired, it can be eaten at once, but will not be as tasty. ????