The taste of fresh crunchy cucumber, pungent flavor marinated and pickled cucumbers is perfectly known to all. But not everyone tried a cucumber … fried. Moreover – not everyone suspects about existence of a similar dish! This option of preparation of cucumbers was from China. Fried cucumbers are a part of many exotic dishes.
In China the fried cucumbers won't be surprising. This method of processing of a product is widely used in the Chinese cookery. It is known and in Korea. Perfectly fried cucumbers and in kitchen a fusion took root. There were also options of preparation of this exotic adapted to the European taste.
Cucumbers on the heated oil only a two-three of minutes are fried. You shouldn't overroast them!
Preparation of fried cucumbers takes half an hour of time. Everything that needs to be taken:
- cucumbers – 5 pieces;
- starch – 1 tablespoon; - vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons; - garlic – 5 cloves; - sesame – 1-2 tsps; - a soy-bean sauce – 1 tablespoon; - a sprinkling pepper of Chile – a pinch; - salt – ½ tsps. Cucumbers should be washed up and cut in half. It is also possible to cut them with oblong bars 0.5 on 2 or 1 × 3 cm if you are going to use as ingredient to salad or other dish. Put vegetables in a bowl, having powdered with salt. They will give juice. Merge juice, rinse vegetables warm water, then dry by means of napkins. Roll in cucumbers in starch. Cut segment of garlic thin plates. In a deep frying pan or a wok heat oil. Put garlic and chili pepper in oil. Fry on strong fire, constantly stirring slowly. There is enough 30 seconds. At once add sesame, cucumbers and a spoon of a soy-bean sauce. Fry cucumbers 2-4 minutes on strong fire.
Ideally fire has to be not just strong, and represent a column of an open flame. The cook holds a frying pan over fire and stirs up it. But on home cuisine, unlike restaurant, you shouldn't make such experiments.
There are various variations of this dish. For example, cucumbers can be nastrugat on a grater thin slices. It is necessary to fry these circles or ovals no more than a minute as they are too thin. One more interesting option which is slightly changing taste of fried cucumbers and adapting them to the European taste – keeping before frying within 20-30 minutes not in salt, and in to sweep away from salt and vinegar with sugar. Something similar turns out on marinade. Here it is important not to overdo cucumbers that they didn't become marinated.
I will merge cucumbers fill up in order that they gave juice. If not to make it, during frying these vegetables will just turn into gruel.
It is possible to fry cucumbers, not only having rolled in in starch, but also in having dipped in batter. Well dried cucumbers in which there was not really a lot of water can be fried on strong fire and without rolling. Among spicery with which it is possible to fry cucumbers – pieces of paprika and ginger. If you use ginger, it is possible to reduce amount of pepper and garlic a little that the taste of this spice revealed better. How to give fried cucumbers? It is possible just in the form of snack. It is possible to mix with other vegetables, with the meat (cut with small pieces and fried on strong fire), soy sprouts, buckwheat noodles. It is possible to fry with carrot shaving. The shiitaka can see often fried cucumbers as a part of salads, for example, with mushrooms. Recipes of kitchen a fusion allow to combine fried cucumbers even with the cheese and other ingredients habitual to European cuisine.