Xe is the name of a Korean dish of fish, meat or vegetables, prepared without thermal processing of the raw product, and the cooking of ingredients with vinegar is also a prerequisite.
The classic recipe uses raw fish, which is cut into small pieces and pickled in vinegar for several hours. You can eat a delicious dish after 30 minutes, as it is cooked.
In Korea, heh is very popular - it is used both as a salad and as a complement to a dish. Special Korean spices give hehe an unforgettable aroma and taste.
Here you will learn how to make pike cheh with a variety of ingredients. Our recipes will help everyone who decides to discover a new dish.
It is important! The most delicious dish is obtained from freshly caught fish. If you buy a pike in a store, then pay attention to its appearance: fresh fish have red eyes and sparkle.
Before cooking hehe, prepare the fish in advance - cut the fins, remove its insides, remove the skin. Using tweezers, remove the bones.
We present you the 10 most delicious pike hehe: simple step by step recipes with photos and videos.
10. With radish
Interesting winter salad with radish, you can say, a relative of carrots in Korean. This slightly aromatic, slightly spicy salad can replace it or make up the company.
Radish itself is not only a budget product, but also useful. The first who began to use it were the Egyptians, they also noticed its miraculous effect. Radish treats intestinal diseases, makes hair more beautiful and improves memory - this is only the minimum of what this root crop can do. We’ll make hee out of radish and pike.
Cut the pike fillet into pieces and send it to pickle in a cool place for 60 minutes in 9% vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons. We chop the onions, and carrots and radishes - 200 g each. Grate for Korean salads (or finely chop into straws).
We attach finely chopped garlic to the vegetables - 2 cloves, coriander and Korean carrot seasoning - a pinch. Salt the dish and sprinkle with chopped dill. Heat the oil in a pan - 3 tbsp. tablespoons olive, pour chilli and wait for the appearance of bubbles. After that, pour the oil into vegetables, mix. Mix the fish with vegetables, mix and remove the hehe for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
9. With carrots
Let's continue to experiment. This dish deserves the attention of everyone who likes to try something new. For the dish we need 300 g of pike - we will prepare it according to all the rules. You can try to marinate it immediately with vegetables or first separately for 60 minutes, as in the recipe above - try to cook in different ways, do not be afraid.
Rub on a Korean grater carrots - 3 pcs. (if you don’t have it - it’s okay, an ordinary knife will always help out - we will cut carrots with them into thin strips), cut onions in half rings - 2 pcs. Grind 5 cloves of garlic with a garlic squeezer (if you do not have it, just chop it into thin plates). We spread these 3 components to the pike, cut into pieces. Solim - need 1 tbsp. spoon, and sugar - 3 tbsp. Mix.
Oil - 5 tbsp. hot spoons in a pan with peppers: black, red, as well as coriander - only 1 tbsp. spoon. Pour it in hey and after stirring, send the dish to marinate for 2 hours, pouring 2 tbsp. tablespoons of 9% vinegar.
8. With hot pepper
This heh option is for those who like savory foods. The recipe includes spicy pepper - ½ teaspoon, 1 teaspoon of paprika (add to your taste - if you think that the fish will turn out too sharp - reduce the amount of pepper).
Buy and prepare 1 kg. fresh pike (how to determine its freshness, read at the beginning of the article).
We filter the pike, cut into small pieces, salt - 1 tbsp. spoon, pour vinegar - 9% - 2 tbsp. spoon and close the lid of the jar. Let it stand, but for now we will prepare the vegetables.
We chop the bell pepper and onion into rings, and chop the carrots (from the points above you already know how to do this - with a Korean grater or chopped vegetable into strips). We combine the vegetables with the pike and season with the following components: paprika, coriander - 1 teaspoon, seasoning for fish - 1 teaspoon and ½ teaspoon hot pepper.
We heat oil in a pan - 100 g. and pour them a dish. We leave the snack for 12 hours, putting it in the refrigerator.
7. With lemon
This version of heh is for those who don't like spicy dishes. In addition, ordinary cider vinegar is replaced with apple cider vinegar if you need to cook a less spicy dish. First, prepare the pike - pour 800 g. lemon juice and leave for 20 minutes. After this time, we felite the fish.
Salt the chopped onion - 2 pcs. and sprinkle with black pepper. Mix it with a pike, adding 4 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar - 9% (note! Foam may appear - do not be afraid, it should be so).
We put the fish in oppression and put them in the refrigerator for at least 7 hours. The meat will get a light shade and all the bones will go away. We spread the carrot in the hot oil (you already know what to do with it - we chop it).
Fry the carrots until soft, and then combine with the fish. Greens and garlic - to taste, combine with fish and mix. Put onion rings on top of the appetizer - for decoration.
6. In tomato paste
Sometimes I want to cook something unusual and tasty - hehe in tomato paste just right for this. You can cook not only pike according to this recipe - you can also cook herring and other fish in tomato paste. The dish turns out spicy and, most importantly, very tasty.
Prepare the fish. 2 onions cut into rings. We heat the oil in a pan, and then fry 500 g of tomato. pasta and 1 teaspoon of peppers - red and black. Pike, cut into small pieces, combine with fried components and pour 9% vinegar - 30 ml. Leave to marinate for 4-5 hours.
5. With bell pepper
Another option for sharp he - take note. This dish is suitable not only for pike, but also for any river fish: carp, pike perch or carp. We take 1 kg. fresh pike and felite.
We put the fish, cut into pieces, into a jar, attach onion to it - 2 pcs., Chopped in rings, water 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar. Fish should be marinated for 2 hours. At this time we combine: carrots, fresh cilantro (optional), as well as salt and Korean seasoning - to taste.
Shred the vegetables: cucumber - 2 pcs, 2 tomatoes, bell pepper - cut the vegetables 5 minutes before the fish in the marinade is ready. Mix everything together with fish, sprinkle garlic on top. We heat 100 g of oil, and then pour in hehe. Stir and remove for 2 hours to stand.
4. With soy sauce
This snack will come in handy if you are planning a get-together in a warm friendly company. Note that soy sauce, depending on the manufacturer, is different in taste - try it, if it is too salty, then dilute it with water.
Cut the pike into pieces, put it in a jar, pour in it: salt, 0.5 teaspoon nutmeg - nutmeg, the same amount of coriander and hot red pepper, paprika, sunflower hops. Next, pour 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce and vinegar - 2 tbsp. Mix and leave for 30 minutes.
For carrots - 6 pcs. and onions - 4 pcs. (chopped in advance), add suneli hops and peppers, coriander, walnut, sugar and salt - 1 hour each. Spread the garlic and mix. Mix fish with vegetables, and then fill in with heated oil - 100 ml. We clean for 12 hours in a cold place.
3. With pickled cucumbers
From the previous paragraphs, you already understood the scheme for preparing hehe: vegetables are cut, the fish is pickled, and then the products are mixed and filled with oil. Cooking according to this recipe is no different from other than the ingredients.
For two hours, remove the pike, bay it with 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar essence - 70% and salt. Onions - 4 pcs., Garlic - 4 cloves. and pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs. chopped. Squeeze the liquid from the cucumbers, and then mix with the onion.
Mix shredded cilantro with these components. We connect the pike with peppers: black, red, water the hesta. boiling oil - 4 tbsp. tablespoons, mix, pouring soy sauce - 200 ml. Leave the salad to soak for 30 minutes.
2. Easy
This recipe includes only 7 ingredients (unlike those above), so it’s being prepared heh with pike easiest. Having prepared a recipe, you get a great appetizer for wine.
Peeled and chopped pike into pieces in a jar, bay 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vinegar. Leave for 120 minutes. While the fish is pickled - chop the carrots - 1 kg. and onion - rings, 1 pc. We take a jar of fish and pour vinegar out of it.
We spread carrots and onions. Pour red pepper - to taste, and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of oil. Put 4 cloves. garlic - chop in advance. We leave a snack for the night.
For reference: heh with pike and carrots goes well with rice.
1. In Korean
We offer you another original recipe - Korean style with lemon and mustard. Let's try this yummy?
We will prepare the pike, pickling it in vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoon for 2 hours. Then we’ll deal with the vegetables: chop the onion - 2 pcs. and pour boiling water for 10 minutes. After that, dry it.
Sliced carrots are combined with onions, and then mixed with paprika - 0.3 tsp and olive oil - 3 tbsp. Prepare the marinade - for this we combine olive oil and lemon juice (in equal amounts).
In the mixture, pour black pepper, salt, caraway seeds - 1 teaspoon, the same amount of sugar and mustard. We mix the pike with the marinade and fall asleep with carrots and onions. Mix. We remove the infusion for 8-12 hours.
Do not forget that you can always change the amount of ingredients - someone prefers more spicy dishes, and someone more salty. The recipes say the approximate amount of products. In addition, caraway can be excluded from the last recipe - not everyone likes its taste. Focus on your taste preferences.