Korean asparagus is a dish served in many Asian restaurants. But it will be possible to cook it at home on its own. This treat is not only very tasty, but also useful, because fuju (asparagus) has a large amount of fiber and improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

Classic Korean Asparagus Recipe

Starting your acquaintance with the dish in question is a classic recipe. For it, it is worth using dried asparagus (180 g) and a large number of different seasonings. Need to take: 3-4 cloves of garlic, 3 tsp. sugar and salt, 90 ml. soy sauce without additives, 1 white onion, special spices for Korean carrots, any frying oil.

  1. To start, fuju is soaked in cold water for 7-9 hours. The easiest way is to leave it in the liquid all night. After this, the shoots are squeezed from the water and cut into thin strips.
  2. Onions are minced in any convenient way and fried in oil until golden.
  3. Separately, soy sauce is combined with garlic passed through a press, oil added from cooking a vegetable, sugar, salt, and spices are added to it. The mass is thoroughly mixed until smooth.
  4. Asparagus is poured with the resulting sauce, placed in a hermetically sealed container and sent to the refrigerator for 5-6 hours. The longer the appetizer stays in the cold, the tastier it will turn out.

To make the treat look appetizing and attractive, fuju should be cut diagonally. In this case, a cut of straw will be visible at the finished snack.

Quick recipe

If the hostess has very little time left, then spicy asparagus can be cooked very quickly. To do this, you will need to use other ingredients: 250 g of dried fuzhu, 120 ml. water, 60 ml.table vinegar (you can take wine), 1 large carrot, a couple of cloves of garlic, 3 tsp. sugar, butter, a pinch of salt and ground red pepper. The following describes how to cook asparagus in Korean as quickly as possible.

  1. First of all, you need to boil water and pour dried asparagus on it. Under such conditions, the optimal period for soaking the ingredient will be reduced to 1 hour.
  2. Carrots are chopped using a special "Korean" grater. But, if it was not at hand, you can use the usual large one.
  3. To prepare the marinade, pepper is combined with salt, granulated sugar, chopped garlic and vinegar. The resulting mixture is sent to the medium heat in a saucepan. Turn off the stove immediately as soon as the liquid boils.
  4. The marinade is poured on chopped fuju mixed with carrots. The appetizer is laid under oppression and left warm for about 1 hour. Then it should be moved to the refrigerator for storage.

Spicy asparagus prepared according to this recipe will be an excellent addition to salads. You can add it to spicy sauces for meat.

With sesame seeds

 

To make the dish even more useful and improve its taste, it is worth adding sesame to the asparagus. These seeds contain a large amount of calcium, and, in addition, add originality to any snack. It is best to combine black (2 tsp) and white (1 tsp) sesame seeds. In addition to it, you must also use: 230 g of dried fuzhu, 1 tsp each. salt and sugar, a couple of cloves of garlic, 1 carrot, 50 ml. apple cider vinegar, spices for Korean carrots and red ground pepper, 100 ml. oils.

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  1. Asparagus is soaked in cold water for at least 5 hours. If you do not withstand the specified time, then the snack will turn out too tough and tasteless. Then the product is squeezed and cut into miniature pieces.
  2. Carrots are chopped with a grater, and then combined with prepared asparagus.
  3. Sesame seeds are fried in a dry pan.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix fuju, carrots, sesame seeds, sugar, salt, seasonings and vinegar.
  5. Olive, sunflower or any other vegetable oil in a pan is brought to a boil, after which it rests with the rest of the ingredients.

The future snack should be in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours. Only then can it be served at the table.

Korean Carrot Asparagus Recipe

 

Perfectly combines spicy fuju with Korean carrots. Such an appetizer can become a separate independent dish on the festive table. Especially if you add red sweet bell pepper (1 pc.) To it. You will also need to use: 300 g. Ready-made carrots in Korean, 200 g. Dry asparagus, 2 white onions, 30 ml. soy sauce, a mixture of ground peppers, 4-5 garlic cloves and salt.

  1. Break asparagus, pour warm water, salt and leave for about 1 hour.
  2. Chop the onion and bell pepper, fry the slices in oil until half-cooked, and then add the soaked fuzhu to the vegetables, a little water, spices and simmer the listed ingredients over low heat for 10-12 minutes.
  3. The resulting mixture is combined with Korean carrots and seasoned with soy sauce.

You can sprinkle the cooked appetizer with plenty of chopped herbs and serve it as an addition to any meat or vegetable dish.

How to cook asparagus for the winter

Korean-style savory appetizer can also be prepared for the winter.

The recipe for such a dish is no less simple and understandable. For it you will need to use the following ingredients: 250 g. Dry asparagus, 2 pcs. carrots and onions, 2 garlic cloves, 60 ml. sunflower oil, 1 tbsp. vinegar, soy sauce and sugar, a pinch of salt and seasoning for Korean carrots.

  1. Asparagus is pre-soaked in cold water overnight. Then it is well wrung out and cut diagonally.
  2. Onions, carrots and garlic are chopped (the latter is best cut into thin slices) and well fried in sunflower oil.
  3. Fuju is mixed with prepared vegetables, and then poured with marinade made from soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt and spices.
  4. The resulting snack can be transferred to pre-washed and sterilized banks. It is perfectly stored all winter on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

It is best to put asparagus in Korean in miniature jars, as it is most often consumed in small portions and can go bad quickly when opened.

Calorie content

If ordinary vegetable asparagus has a minimum calorie content of 15 kcal per 100 g, then for a product prepared in Korean, this figure is significantly different. Exotic appetizer has 234 kcal for every 100 g.

If we talk about dried asparagus, then the indicator is even higher - 440 kcal per 100g. At the same time, the harmonious composition of the product allows you to include it in the diet menu in any form. Asparagus has a lot of protein and low fat.

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