"Broken cucumbers": spicy Chinese appetizer

The Chinese respect the cucumbers very much and try to add them to any dish that they can. However, in an independent form they are also very loved. Chinese "Broken Cucumbers" - one of the simplest snacks, which, with all its primitiveness, enjoys frenzied success both at home and throughout the world. It is prepared very quickly and is suitable for almost all dishes. Yes, and how to "snack" under a festive glass is just perfect.

Correct cucumbers and the way they are processed

To "Broken Cucumbers" in Chinese you are pleased, you need to start competently to choose a vegetable. Forget prickly krepenkih kids, you need cucumbers from long-fruited varieties.

Now about their processing. The name "Broken Cucumbers" already contains a clue: a vegetable needs to be beaten up properly. There are two possible approaches. According to the first version of the cucumber enough to whip with a rolling pin or a wooden hammer in its entirety. But we are closer to the second version. It's no secret that a long vegetable has fairly large seeds. And in the snack they will definitely be redundant. So it's better to cut the cucumber along and scrape the "insides" with a knife, as it is done with pumpkin and melons. After the vegetable is put down the cut and processed by the tool before cracking (but not to the cough-like state!). Beating is necessary for better impregnation of vegetables with marinade.

Next, the billet is cut in large pieces obliquely, podsalivaetsya and left for about ten minutes. The spilled juice merges (some cooks even advise her to squeeze), and the "Broken Cucumbers" are filled with a pre-cooked sauce. In the original snack, apart from him and the vegetable itself, nothing else is included.

"Broken cucumbers": recipe refueling number 1

Let's pay attention to the sauce. Chinese cuisine offers several options for refueling. For the first it is required to combine soy sauce and black vinegar in the volume of three spoons and add to them two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Preference is given to the peanut. Then, two spoons of liquid natural honey and one - sesame oil are introduced. In order for the "Broken Cucumbers" to be spicy, four crushed garlic and dried chili are added to the marinade. It is taken at the discretion of the cook. After refueling, the snack is kept in the refrigerator for at least a quarter of an hour.

Refueling № 2

With her "Broken Cucumbers" become more accessible - nothing exotic in the sauce is not included. It is required to combine in equal quantities vodka, soy sauce, vinegar and lean oil. In order to preserve authenticity, it is recommended to take sesame oil (slightly worse with olive, and with sunflower it will be delicious, but primitive). Vinegar it is desirable to buy rice; If there is no possibility - replace it with lemon juice.

The third version

In this gas station, the differences from prescription number 1 are small, but significant. With it you will get completely different "Broken Cucumbers". The recipe includes oyster and soy sauces with black (can apple) vinegar, taken on a spoon. Garlic for this volume requires three slices, sesame oil will go half a spoonful. Plus, chili, sugar and salt at your discretion.

Alternative way of cooking

If all the previous ones meant a portion preparation, then this option requires almost a kilogram of cucumbers. They are cut large; In parallel, as small as possible cut a good bunch of dill and eight garlic cloves. For filling, mix half a cup of soy sauce, a spoonful of sugar, two - lean oil, three - apple cider vinegar and half a spoonful of ground red pepper. Black is taken to taste, as is salt. All this is placed in a tight package, shaken well and only after being hit with a rolling pin. The hour of cooling - and the "Broken Cucumbers" are ready.

Chinese salad

At its core - cucumbers, repulsed by traditional rules. Squeezed from the juice, they are placed in a salad bowl and complemented with chopped garlic and chopped rather large coriander. At the refueling is a light soy sauce, sesame oil and black rice vinegar - just a spoonful. Composition of half a spoon of spicy oil and sugar (a little bit) is added. The salad is filled with fried cashews, marinade is poured in - and you can try it almost immediately. This salad offers a restaurant "Chinese diploma". You can say that there he enjoys increased popularity. However, it is not necessary to attend a public catering, the salad is completely accessible for hand-made cooking.