Fish heh is especially popular among fans of spicy and savory appetizers. This dish can be eaten simply with bread or in combination with vegetable salad. Many may think that preparing a snack is quite difficult, but in fact, everything is simple here. Read the article and feel free to start cooking Korean dishes.
Korean cuisine has long won the hearts of Russian gourmets. One such dish is fish khe. To prepare the appetizer, raw fish fillet is used, which is marinated with the addition of various spices and herbs.
For Koreans, fish heh is both an appetizer and a full meal. If we talk about fish, Korean chefs give preference to tuna or pollock, but you can use other sea and river inhabitants - mackerel, pike perch, catfish, salmon, pink salmon, mullet, herring. You can marinate pike, although chefs are not too fond of it due to the large number of small bones.
It is best to choose fresh fish for an appetizer, since a frozen carcass loses its integrity when defrosted.
To reduce the cooking time, you can buy ready-made fillet, but the main thing is to cut it into thin slices, and be careful when stirring so that the appetizer does not turn into a mushy mixture. You can use different spices for heh, but the correct heh recipe requires the use of coriander and red pepper.
General principles for preparing pollock
Fresh fish is best suited for the treat under discussion. But it can be difficult to find one in supermarkets. Therefore, you can use frozen, but you will need to put it in the refrigerator in advance, and then on the table. All excess liquid should drain from the product.
There are other important principles for preparing pollock:
Pink salmon
The cheapest red fish. However, it is also the least red, since its meat is mostly gray. It contains a lot of useful substances, for example, vitamins C, E, group B. Pink salmon contains phosphoric acid, healthy fats and a lot of high-quality protein.
Pink salmon baked with mayonnaise
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- 1 pink salmon
- Salt
- ½ lemon
- Black pepper
- Grated hard cheese
- 100 g mayonnaise
Step 1. Clean the pink salmon, remove the fillets from the bones, leave the skin on.
Step 2. Zest half a lemon and squeeze out the juice.
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Why are canned fish bones soft? Step 3. Mix the zest and juice with mayonnaise, chopped dill and cheese.
Step 4. Place half of the fillet, skin side down, on the foil. Grease with a third of the resulting mixture.
Step 5. Remove the skin from the second half of the fillet, place the fish on the first half with the outer side down. Spread with the rest of the mayonnaise-lemon sauce.
Step 6. Close the edges of the foil over the fish and close it tightly, but so that the foil does not touch the mayonnaise.
Step 7. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
Classic recipe with carrots
Pollock heh, a recipe for which you can find at home below in the article, is most often prepared according to the classic recipe. It includes carrots. The vegetable should be fresh, juicy, which will eventually be convenient to turn into straws. You can either take individual spices yourself or use a ready-made set.
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If the delicacy is prepared in advance, then it is best not to add the greens right away, but to wait. It is allowed to replace dill with fresh cilantro and parsley.
Useful tips and tricks
The following tips will help you prepare tasty pollock heh:
- if the appetizer includes pepper, then it is undesirable to take only green pepper, it is better to use a bright mixture to avoid bitterness;
- To prepare the dish, it is convenient to use glass baking dishes (square/oval) with a reliable lid;
- It is best to choose large fish carcasses for the appetizer in question.
Pollock heh can be prepared at home using more than 15 recipes. Among them are options with vegetables, various spices, and herbs.
In Korean
Pollock heh, a recipe for which at home can be called one of the simplest and most accessible, can be prepared with a previously compiled store-bought set of spices. These are Korean carrot spices. Each cook chooses their quantity according to his taste.
Pollock hye, Korean recipe.
It is also advisable to add marjoram, dried parsley and paprika to the dish if they were not included in the set.
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The delicacy is delicious served with soy sauce, lemon, and fresh herbs.
How to make red fish
Red fish is considered a real delicacy, so any dishes made from it always turn out very tasty. Let's try to cook heh from such fish. Take any red fish, preferably fresh, weighing 400 g.
Ingredients:
- one fresh cucumber;
- three garlic cloves;
- half a lime;
- two tablespoons of sesame oil;
- two tablespoons of soy seasoning;
- two spoons of red pepper;
- half a spoonful of cumin and dried cilantro.
Cooking method:
- Marinate thin slices of red fish fillet in salt and lime juice for three hours.
- In heated oil, simmer fresh cucumber strips and thin slices of garlic, pour in soy seasoning.
- Mix the marinated fish with the resulting vegetable dressing, add all the spices, mix and you can enjoy the delicious appetizer.
With apple cider vinegar
Pollock heh will turn out very tender at home if you add apple cider vinegar to the recipe. This option is suitable for different fish. The recipe can even be used for pike. It is important to take natural, fruit-based, uncolored apple cider vinegar.
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It is advisable to store the snack in a glass container with a lid. You can try it in the morning. If necessary, just add salt to the treat.
What kind of fish is suitable for heh?
For preparing heh, sea fish is best suited, ideally, as mentioned above, fresh tuna, pollock or mackerel; good heh is made from salmon, chum salmon, pink salmon and mullet. Of the river and lake fish, trout, sterlet, carp, catfish, silver carp, pike perch and pike are well suited for heh. You should choose fish for heh taking into account the size, number of fillets and the presence of bones.
Some housewives, when using river fish for khe, first boil it for a quarter of an hour in a double boiler, and only after that cut it for cooking.
As for spices, traditionally, red hot pepper, black pepper, coriander are used for heh, and soy sauce is often added. On sale you can see ready-made spice mixtures for heh; whether to buy them or select a set of spices yourself is a matter of taste and preference of the cook.
With onion
This recipe is very different from the classic one. It will especially appeal to those who don’t like raw onion pieces. The calorie content of the treat turns out to be approximately 107 kcal per 100 g.
And BZHU:
| BJU | Value in g (per 100 g) |
| Squirrels | 23,1 |
| Fats | 0.6 |
| Carbohydrates | 5,4 |
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The resulting appetizer should stand in a cool place for approximately 2-2.5 hours. At the very end, you can season it with chopped cilantro. By the way, not only sunflower oil is suitable for treats. You can safely take other types. For example, sesame.
capelin
It is a very small fish, so it is best to fry it. Since the fish is marine, it contains quite a lot of healthy fatty acids Omega-3 and Omega-6, for this reason capelin is highly valued by nutritionists. It also contains vitamins A, D, B12, iodine, phosphorus, and selenium.
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- 250 g capelin
- Salt
- 100 ml water
- 1 bag of black tea
- 1 onion
- ½ tsp. Sahara
- ½ tbsp. l. lemon juice
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- Allspice
- Bay leaf
Step 1. Brew tea, add lemon juice, salt, sugar and pepper.
Step 2. Wash the fish, dry it, and place it on the bottom of the frying pan.
Step 3. Place onion feathers on top, pour tea and throw a little bay leaf on top.
Step 4. If there is a lot of fish, then you can lay it out in layers.
Step 5: Place a plate on top of the fish, press down and cook over low heat for 40 minutes. Serve garnished with greens.
With soy sauce
Pollock heh, the recipe of which can be modified at home to suit your taste, can also be prepared with soy sauce. In this case, it is recommended to take the classic dark one. Preferably without additives like garlic, hot peppers and mushrooms.
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The amount of spicy Korean spices can be reduced to suit your taste. It is recommended to use fish fillet in the recipe, but you can also use pieces of pollock with bones and backbone. In this case, the marinating time will need to be increased by approximately 1 hour.
History of the appearance of heh
This dish first appeared in China in the 9th century. Here it was prepared exclusively with raw fish or meat. However, over the centuries, the traditional recipe for heh has changed.
It is believed that the dish began to be prepared differently after an epidemic that struck China in the 11th century. Then, for a while, hake completely disappeared from the tables. When the terrible pestilence was left behind, people again began to make this delicious fish dish. True, new ingredients were added to it.
Today, heh is a classic Korean dish. The traditional recipe calls for spicy marinated tuna. However, they can also put whiting. For better taste, add some meat, such as beef and pork.
With cucumbers
To prepare the juiciest version of the discussed Korean fish appetizer, you should add fresh cucumbers to it. Vegetables are chosen young. The basis of the appetizer can be either pure fillet or fish pieces with bones. With two options you will get an equally tasty treat.
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This treat can also be prepared with zucchini (instead of cucumbers). It is recommended to choose small, young vegetables. They will also need to be salted in advance and squeezed out of excess juice. If this is not taken care of, the snack will end up with excess liquid.
With pepper
Such a treat turns out bright and appetizing. All thanks to the colorful sweet peppers. It’s worth taking red, yellow and orange at once. It’s definitely worth taking some chili for some extra spice. But it can also be replaced with powder from the package.
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The heh is left cool for a couple of hours in a sealed container. Be sure to re-stir the treat before taking the sample.
From mackerel
Mackerel is a fatty, healthy and tasty fish. It has few bones, making it ideal for making heh.
Ingredients for one mackerel weighing 400 g:
- two onions of two varieties;
- three tablespoons of vinegar;
- a spoonful of salt and sweet sand;
- a pinch of ground coriander;
- three tablespoons of refined oil;
- half a spoon of pepper mixture;
- spoon of soy seasoning if desired.
Cooking method:
- Cut the fish fillet into small pieces, mix with vinegar and leave for half an hour.
- We take two types of onions, chop them into thin quarters, mash them a little with our hands so that the vegetables release their juice.
- Combine the onion with the fish, pour in the oil and soy, add all the seasonings, mix, cover and leave in a cool place for a couple of hours.
Recipe for “Korean style dried pollock appetizer”:
Cut the dried pollock into very thin strips about 5 cm long. If the fish is very dry, you can lightly sprinkle it with water and let it stand. Peel the onions, chop them as desired and fry them in a frying pan with heated vegetable oil. After frying, remove the onion from the oil.
Place pollock “noodles” in a bowl, add “yangnyom” and pour hot vegetable oil. Mix thoroughly but gently. Let cool and serve, stirring well before serving. It is very good if the appetizer sits for several hours before serving, so that the fish becomes softer and is better saturated with pepper oil.
Preparation of yangnyom seasoning: Peel the garlic, pass through a press or meat grinder, add ground hot pepper, salt and sugar, 1 tbsp. spoon of cold boiled water and mix well. The finished seasoning can be stored for quite a long time in the refrigerator in a glass jar with an airtight (screw) lid.
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Sweet and salty, soaked in pepper oil, transparent amber pollock will not leave indifferent lovers of Korean cuisine and... beer lovers.
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Ingredients:
Pollock (fillet) 600 g, vinegar 100 ml, soy sauce 100 - 150 ml, spices to taste, garlic 3-4 cloves, parsley 30 g, onion 1 pc., olive oil (optional) 1 tbsp.
spoon. Korean-style heh fish - a delicious, fast, safe, inexpensive way to cook
Delicious, fast, safe, inexpensive way to cook heh fish. This recipe is good because even those who make heh for the first time always get a stable result, with a guaranteed traditional taste.
Pollock - 1-2 pcs (300g) Onion - 1 pc (50g) Carrots - 1 pc (100g) Garlic - 1 clove Sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon Salt - 1 teaspoon Vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon Soy sauce - 1 teaspoon Ground red hot pepper - 0.5 teaspoons Ground paprika - 0.5 teaspoons Ground coriander - 0.5 teaspoons Whole coriander - 0.5 teaspoons Vegetable oil - 2 Art. spoons
I deliberately used the most accessible ingredients. Although: pollock can be replaced with a more noble, not very fatty fish. For example, chum salmon or pink salmon. It is better to use rice vinegar. And hot red pepper is preferably coarsely ground (flakes).
Preparation:
We clean pollock, usually the so-called backs of pollock, from the remaining entrails and black film.
Cut it in half. Cook in the microwave for about 1 minute, no longer. This is an important point. We need to get boiled, but not overcooked fish. Even slightly undercooked is better.
Ignore the tail. Around it, the meat was overcooked, but the bulk of the pulp turned out just right. Remove bones, fins and skin. Divide the fillet into segments. The fillet of almost all fish consists of such slices. Sprinkle half the sugar (0.5 tbsp), half the salt (0.5 tsp), pour half the vinegar (0.5 tbsp). Mix. And for now we set aside to marinate.
Cut the onion into sickles, lengthwise (not across, in half rings) of the onion halves. Put it in another cup. Pour in a quarter of salt (0.25 teaspoon) and sugar (0.25 tablespoon) from the indicated proportions, pour in the remaining half of vinegar (0.5 tablespoon).
Stir and set aside to marinate. Let's start preparing the carrots. Shred the carrots on a Korean grater.
Add the remaining salt (0.25 teaspoon). Knead with your hands until soft for a couple of minutes. We get three cups of semi-finished products - pickled fish and onions, and salted carrots.
A little difficult, but it will definitely work. Next, pour the rest of the seasonings into the carrots - chopped garlic, red hot pepper and paprika, ground and half of whole coriander. Pour in soy sauce.
Heat the oil in a small container and pour it onto the spices placed on top of the carrots.
Mix it all well. That is, in essence, we are preparing carrot-cha, Korean carrots.
Place pickled onions in carrots.
Raw fish contains a huge amount of vitamins, micro and macro elements. But many people consider it unsafe to eat fish that has not undergone heat treatment. I want to present to the cooks a simple recipe on how to cook marinated He fish in Korean. Strictly follow my detailed, step-by-step recipe with photos, and you will be able to easily and simply prepare a delicious and very healthy savory snack from raw fish. Thanks to the cooking method, eating this Korean Heh salad made from fish with carrots and vegetables is absolutely safe.
Products:
- fish – 1 kg;
- carrots – 2 pcs.;
- salad pepper – 2 pcs.;
- onions – 2 pcs.;
- salt – 2 tsp;
- vinegar (9%) – 4 tbsp;
- vegetable oil – 70 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp;
- ground coriander – 2 tsp;
- red pepper – 1 tsp;
- paprika – 2 tsp.
Starting the preparation, I want to give a little advice on choosing fish for a Korean salad. Any raw fish will do (both river and sea), but just make sure that it is not bony. In my version of the recipe, I used two types of fish: leaner pollock and fatty sea bass.
