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Making eggplant heh for the winter is a fairly simple and quick process. The popular Korean snack has a spicy sweet and sour taste and looks very impressive.
The dish looks appetizing and can be safely served at a festive table.
Subtleties of preparing eggplant Heh for the winter
To prepare eggplant heh for the winter, you don’t need to have culinary experience. The dish is easy to prepare from the most common ingredients.
Heh from the blue ones is a vegetable salad. Eggplants are pre-fried, boiled or baked, then combined with other vegetables mixed with seasonings.
As a rule, blue ones are not peeled.
Most often, eggplants are cut into thin bars, but you can also cut them into circles
It is important not to overcook the fruit. The process should last no more than 5 minutes after boiling. Readiness is determined by appearance: if the blue ones have changed color, the heating can be turned off. Vegetables should remain elastic and dense.
Traditionally, eggplant heh for the winter is prepared with the addition of seasoning for Korean carrots or ground chili pepper, thanks to which the preparation becomes spicy and piquant.
It is not recommended to put fresh greens in the blue ones.It can be frozen for the winter and added to an appetizer just before serving.
Vegetable selection
To prepare heh for the winter, it is recommended to choose young eggplants, since they have thin skin and are less bitter. The optimal size is about 15 cm. The pulp should be dense, the skin should be even, smooth, without dents or stains. Freshly picked fruits without signs of wilting are best suited. If you have to use old vegetables, you will have to pre-salt them or bake them.
It is advisable to take bell peppers of different colors so that the appetizer turns out to be multi-colored and bright.
It is better to give preference to purple or red onions.
Carrots are included in eggplant heh. You can use separately cooked Korean carrots. You can buy it or make it yourself.
The proportions of vegetables are chosen arbitrarily according to taste
Preparing jars
Lids and jars for preparations for the winter are subjected to heat treatment. This procedure helps avoid spoilage of eggplants and prevents the jars from opening.
To prepare Korean salad for the winter, you will need small jars - no more than 0.5 liters in volume. The processing time for such cans is no more than 10 minutes.
Before heat treatment, glass containers for eggplant hex are thoroughly washed using soda or detergents.
For preparations for the winter, you can use any method of sterilizing containers
There are several sterilization options:
- In the oven. The containers are placed on their side in a cold cabinet with the neck facing the door, then the fire is lit.
- On a wire rack over a pan filled with water. Place the container upside down. You can use a double boiler for this purpose.
- Boiling. Place jars and lids in a suitable container, fill with water and boil.
- Microwave oven.Place a jar filled with 5 cm of water in the microwave and set the maximum power.
Since eggplant is a rather capricious vegetable, preparing heh for the winter most often involves sterilizing the jars along with the appetizer, although there are recipes without heat treatment.
Recipes for preparing Eggplant Heh for the winter
The methods for preparing snacks are the same. They differ slightly in the set of ingredients and processing before rolling. Most often, jars of salad are sterilized for long-term storage.
Spicy Heh eggplant salad for the winter
For 2 kg of blue ones you will need 0.5 kg of carrots, bell peppers of different colors and onions, 8 cloves of garlic, 100 ml of sunflower oil and table vinegar (9%). From spices and herbs you need to prepare 1 tbsp. l. salt, 8 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 tsp each coriander and ground red pepper, 1 tsp. black pepper.
You can serve the dish to the table in deep plates
Cooking method:
- Cut off the stems of the eggplants, cut first into cubes, then into long bars. Place them in a bowl, add salt, mix with your hands and leave for 30 minutes.
- Grate the peeled carrots using a Korean carrot grater. Pour boiling water over it, hold in it for 10 minutes, drain, squeeze thoroughly with your hands.
- Remove the seeds and stem from the sweet pepper and cut into thin long strips.
- Cut the chili into rings, onion into half rings.
- Place all the vegetables except eggplants in a bowl, add ground pepper (red and black), sugar and coriander, pour in vinegar and vegetable oil. Add chopped garlic, stir and leave for a few minutes.
- Squeeze the eggplants, transfer to a paper towel and dry.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil, place squeezed eggplants on it, cover with foil, bake for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
- Place the baked eggplants in a bowl with other vegetables, mix and marinate all together for 1 hour.
- Place the snack in a sterilized container.
- Place a rag in a large saucepan, place containers with salad on it, covered with lids, pour hot water to a third of the height of the jars, put on fire, and after boiling, keep on the stove for 25 minutes.
- Roll up under the lids, turn upside down and cover with a warm blanket. Store cooled jars of eggplant heh in the pantry until winter.
Eggplant and carrot heh for the winter
To prepare this salad for the winter you will need 3 pieces. eggplants, onions and bell peppers (yellow, red, green). In addition, you need to prepare 2 pcs. carrots, 1 chili pod, 150 ml vegetable oil, 2 bay leaves, 3 cloves of garlic, 1.5 tbsp. l. vinegar, ground black pepper and salt to taste.
Containers must be sterilized before sealing.
Cooking method:
- Peel the pepper: remove partitions, seeds, stalks. Cut into a narrow, long strip.
- Pass the garlic through a press, cut the onion into half rings.
- Remove the seeds from the chili and cut into rings.
- Peel the carrots and cut into thin strips. You can use a grater for chopping.
- Mix all the vegetables in a suitable bowl, add salt, pepper and bay leaf, pour in the vinegar and stir.
- Cut the washed and peeled eggplants into long and fairly thin cubes.
- Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan, heat it, add eggplants and lightly fry.
- Transfer the fried eggplants to a bowl with the remaining vegetables, stir, and cool. Add spices.
- Transfer the resulting salad into steamed jars, seal, and put away for the winter.
Heh from eggplants for the winter without sterilization
This recipe for making heh for the winter is considered the simplest.
First, they fry carrots, onions, bell peppers and garlic, then add eggplant and simmer under the lid. Another option is to boil carrots, fry onions and garlic, bake eggplants and peppers.
For 10 eggplants you will need:
- 15 pcs. bell peppers of different colors;
- 5 pcs. onions and carrots;
- 8 cloves of garlic;
- 1 hot pepper;
- 5 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
- 1 bunch of parsley;
- 3 tbsp. l. Sahara;
- half a glass of water;
- peppercorns and salt to taste.
Cool the inverted jars by covering them with something warm.
Cooking method:
- Prepare vegetables: wash, peel. Cut the eggplants into circles, place in a bowl, add water, and leave for 20 minutes.
- Grate the carrots, cut the onion into half rings, cut the bell pepper into strips, and cut the hot pepper into rings.
- Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan, add onion and fry it. Add carrots and peppers, stir, cook for another 3 minutes.
- Drain the water from the bowl with eggplants, put the blue ones in a pan with frying, add water, salt, peppercorns and sugar. Cover with a lid and cook until boiling.
- If there is not enough juice, add water and simmer for 30 minutes over low heat. Add vinegar, garlic and parsley and continue cooking for another 15 minutes.
- Sterilize the jars and boil the lids separately. Fill them with salad and roll them up.
- They will cool completely in about 10 hours. After this, put the preparations for the winter in a dark, cool place.
Storage periods and rules
Eggplant heh is sent to the cellar, pantry or refrigerator for the winter. The hermetically sealed preparation will be preserved until the next vegetable harvest. Opened jars of salad do not last long; they need to be kept in the refrigerator and consumed within 2-3 days, so it is better to choose small jars.
Conclusion
Eggplant heh for the winter is one of the most popular savory preparations. Korean-style spicy salad has a great taste, appetizing appearance, and ease of preparation.
