How to cook mackerel heh with onions
If you do not want to prepare an appetizer from raw fish, then first boil the fillet in a double boiler until cooked.
Preparation:
- Clean the fish, separate the fillets from the bones and skin. Cut it into long narrow strips.
- Pour vinegar over the preparations and place them in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Cut 3 onions into thin half rings and mix them with the fish. Return the food to the refrigerator and leave it for another 3 hours.
- Chop the remaining onion and fry it until golden brown. Add it to the fish along with the oil. Add salt, spices and sugar.
- Mix the products and leave them in the cold for 10 hours.
Before serving, the treat can be decorated with sesame seeds.
Preparation
If you, like us, bought frozen mackerel, then, of course, you need to defrost it. It is better to do this gradually, without resorting to warm baths. Thaw at room temperature.
And here’s some advice: don’t wait for the fish to defrost completely, start processing it while it’s still slightly hard. This will make it easier for you to separate the fillets, remove the bones and remove the skin.
And we start by cutting off the head along with the fins strictly at an angle to the fish’s nose. Next, we will rip open the abdomen and remove the entrails. Immediately rinse the mackerel under cold water.
Now we separate the fillet. To do this, make cuts in the center of the back along the ridge on both sides and use a knife to separate the fillet part.
After this, carefully remove the skin.
Remove the remaining bones from the fillet, which can be easily felt with your fingers. And then, once the mackerel is ready for cooking, cut it into small pieces.
Place them in a bowl and pour vinegar on top and mix. The vinegar will kind of “cook” our fish. Let's leave it like this for half an hour.
Let's prepare the onion. We used two types of onions: sterling and red, but this is not necessary, you can use onions, you just want them to be juicy. Cut it into thin half rings.
Lightly rub the onion with your hands so that it releases its juice, and pour it into the already prepared mackerel. Immediately add the remaining ingredients: salt, sugar, a mixture of peppers, coriander, soy sauce and vegetable oil.
Mix all the ingredients of our delicious snack under the wonderful name Mackerel Xe and, closing the container with a lid, send it to steep in the refrigerator.
You can taste the dish in just a couple of hours, or you can leave it overnight.
This moderately spicy and very appetizing appetizer will delight not only you, but also your friends, whom you will definitely want to treat and surprise with mackerel heh!
Pleasant taste sensations to everyone!
Kitchen appliances and utensils:
sharp knife, cutting board, tablespoon and teaspoon, glass bowls of various sizes, plastic glove, refrigerator.
Mackerel heh recipe with carrots
The dish can be prepared from fresh or defrosted fish fillets.
Ingredients:
- mackerel fillet – 400 g;
- carrots – 4 pcs.;
- sunflower oil – 150 g;
- table vinegar – 120 g;
- onions – 1 pc.;
- soy sauce – 30 ml;
- peppercorns – 15 g;
- ground red pepper – 10 g;
- Korean carrot spice mix – 7 g;
- salt – 2 pinches.
How to cook:
- Cut the fish into cubes 4-5 cm long, cut the onion into half rings.
- Mix the products with 60 g of vinegar and soy sauce, add peppercorns. Marinate the mackerel in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Grate the carrots using a Korean vegetable grater. Mix it with the spice mixture, salt and the remaining vinegar. Fill the workpiece with hot vegetable oil.
- Squeeze out the juice from the mackerel, mix it with carrots, add red pepper. Marinate foods for 6-7 hours.
Serve the treat chilled.
Mackerel heh with vegetables and garlic
The appetizer turns out bright and aromatic.
Ingredients:
- mackerel – 3 pcs.;
- red bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- garlic – 5 cloves;
- vegetable oil – 150 g;
- vinegar 6% – 100 ml;
- water – 100 ml;
- soy sauce – 50 g;
- sugar – 15 g;
- coriander – 5 g;
- salt and pepper - to taste.
Cooking steps:
- Clean the fish, separate the fillet and cut it into small pieces.
- Salt the preparations, pour them with a mixture of water and vinegar. Marinate the mackerel for 45 minutes.
- Cut the onions, peppers and carrots into strips. Add the vegetables to the fish and leave the food for half an hour. Drain the marinade.
- Combine soy sauce with vegetable oil and sugar. Add marinade to taste.
- Mix fish with coriander and chopped garlic. Place the snack in a jar and fill it with sauce.
The treat will be ready in 6-7 hours.
Before serving, the heh can be decorated with green onions or dill.
Heh fish is a universal dish that can be eaten with your family or put on the table during a holiday. Guests will be surprised by your culinary talents, because the fish dish has a spicy, pleasant taste.
You can replace mackerel with any fish at your discretion, but it is with mackerel that He turns out the most delicious and tender.
Step-by-step preparation
- Pre-defrost the mackerel. Rinse well under running water and dry.
- Cut off the head and tail. Cut into circles, and then cut in half and cut out the ridge on one side.
- We clean and wash three onions. Cut into rings. Wash two tomatoes and cut into slices.
- Wash two chili peppers, remove the center and cut half of each into small pieces. Peel, wash and finely chop one clove of garlic.
- Place the chopped fish in a deep bowl.
- We begin to gradually pour vinegar over the fish. Start with vinegar very carefully, because you can add more vinegar at the end if it seems too little (so that it is not too sour). In total there are about three tablespoons of vinegar.
- Add all the chopped onions to the bowl. And lightly pour vinegar over it (about three tablespoons).
- Salt with coarse salt (about 2 pinches). You can also add salt at the end if needed.
- Also lightly sprinkle the onion with sugar (about 0.5 tablespoon).
- Mix the fish and onion with your hands (if desired, you can mix with two forks).
- Cover the bowl with a lid so that the vinegar does not evaporate, and in the meantime heat the sunflower oil in a ladle on the stove.
- When the oil is hot, open the bowl, put chopped tomatoes, chopped garlic and chili peppers and about 0.5 teaspoon of coriander (can be ground or whole) and marjoram (a pinch). Very carefully pour hot oil over the garlic and chili peppers until they fry. This must be done very carefully, because the oil is hot and the ingredients in the bowl are wet, the oil will splash and you can get scalded.
- Mix everything in a bowl and taste. If necessary, add more salt and vinegar. We transfer everything into a liter jar with a twist. Everything should lie very tightly so that it all marinates well.
Korean mackerel is simply delicious. Spicy spices, sugar and acetic acid are added to its delicate taste, making the fish especially tender and tasty.
This appetizer is perfect for a holiday table. From my own experience, I can say that it is one of the first to disappear from the table.
Advice! If you don't want to use soy sauce, increase the amount of salt to one tablespoon.
Ingredients:
- 2 mackerel
- 4 onions
- 1 carrot
- 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 30 ml soy sauce
- 50 ml 9% vinegar
- 1 tbsp. l. Sahara
- 0.5 tbsp. l. coarse salt
- 1 tsp. ground coriander
- 0.5 tsp. red pepper
- 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper
How to cook mackerel heh in Korean:
Let's defrost the mackerel carcasses. Let's cut off the head and tail. Let's cut the belly of the mackerel and remove all the insides. Wash the fish thoroughly.
Separate the fish fillet from the bones.
Cut the fillet into portions.
Transfer the fish to a deep bowl.
Peel the onions and cut them into half rings, following the recipe for mackerel and carrots.
Peel the carrots and chop into strips on a Korean carrot grater.
Add vegetables to the bowl with mackerel.
Let's prepare the marinade. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and bring it to a boil. Then add tomato paste and soy sauce to it.
Stirring, heat the marinade over low heat for 1 minute. Then add salt, sugar and spices to make the mackerel heh fish spicy.
Stirring constantly, heat the marinade for another 3 minutes so that the tomato paste combines with the vegetable oil. At the end of cooking, add vinegar. Then turn off the heat and cool the mixture to room temperature. Pour the cooled marinade over the fish and vegetables.
As a big fan of Korean cuisine, I couldn’t pass up this dish at the market, where the abundance of Korean dishes simply makes my eyes wide open and my appetite works in earnest. After I and everyone in my family appreciated this dish, I decided that I should learn how to cook it myself.
Mackerel heh in the classic version is prepared simply and the cooking process consists more of marinating than any effort on the part of the person preparing this dish.
We will prepare all the products according to the list. I prepare the simplest, basic version of mackerel heh; there are a huge number of variations, but not all of them are equally good. This option, heh, is my favorite and has been tested more than once.
Let's cut off the head and remove the entrails of the fish, cutting it along the belly. Let's wash the fish well from the inside. After this, cut off all the fins from the surface of the skin. Let's cut the fish carcass along the ridge lengthwise so that the bone remains intact and all the flesh is on the skin. Cut the finished fillets into portions. Place the resulting pieces of mackerel on the skin into a bowl.
Pour vinegar over fish fillets. Mix the fish pieces with vinegar well.
Cover the bowl with a small saucer and place a press (a bottle or jar of water, for example) on the saucer. Place the fish in the refrigerator to marinate for 40-60 minutes.
After this, drain the released liquid from the fish, not all of it, you need to leave a little liquid (a couple of spoons).
Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
Add the onion to the pickled mackerel.
Wash the carrots, peel and grate either on a medium grater or on a Korean carrot grater.
Add carrots to the bowl with the fish and onions.
Now it's time for the spices. I won’t be original and just add ready-made seasoning for Korean carrots, it will come in very handy here.
Pour soy sauce into a bowl.
Heat vegetable (ideally sesame) oil in a frying pan until a slight smoke appears on the surface of the pan and pour boiling oil over the mackerel with vegetables and spices. Mix everything well, usually soy sauce provides enough salt, but just in case, taste the dish for salt and, if necessary, add more salt.
Again cover the bowl with mackerel heh with a small saucer, put pressure or weight on it and put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
Korean mackerel hye - done!
Bon appetit!
Heh fish is a universal dish that can be eaten with your family or put on the table during a holiday. Guests will be surprised by your culinary talents, because the fish dish has a spicy, pleasant taste.
You can replace mackerel with any fish at your discretion, but it is with mackerel that He turns out the most delicious and tender.
Classic recipe
Ingredients | Quantity |
carrots - | 2 pcs. |
onion - | 3 pcs. |
mackerel - | 1 kg |
vegetable oil - | ½ tbsp. |
tomato paste - | three tbsp. l. |
sea salt - | one tbsp |
sugar - | ½ tsp. |
water - | one mug |
acetic acid - | three tsp |
spices for cooking Heh - | ½ tbsp. |
Cooking time: 180 minutes | Calorie content per 100 grams: 116 Kcal |
How to cook mackerel Heh with carrots:
As you can see, preparing classic Heh is not a very labor-intensive, but lengthy process. It is considered long-lasting due to the fact that the fish must marinate, absorbing the juices of vegetables and seasonings. Then the dish will become truly spicy.
Classic recipe
Ingredients:
- two carrots;
- three onions;
- one kilogram of mackerel;
- ½ tbsp. vegetable oil;
- three tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- one tbsp sea salt;
- ½ tsp. Sahara;
- one mug of water;
- three tsp acetic acid;
- ½ tbsp. spices for cooking Heh.
The marinated appetizer can be divided into four to six servings.
Cooking time: about three hours.
Energy value per hundred grams: 115.6 kcal.
BJU: 14.7/4.6/3.9 gr.
How to cook mackerel Heh with carrots:
As you can see, preparing classic Heh is not a very labor-intensive, but lengthy process. It is considered long-lasting due to the fact that the fish must marinate, absorbing the juices of vegetables and seasonings. Then the dish will become truly spicy.
Video recipe
If you are partial to fish, then this delicious appetizer should definitely appear on your menu. Moreover, it is very easy to cope with its preparation - and anyone can do it. How? Watch the video.
You learned the recipe for making mackerel heh. Cook, try and write in the comments if you liked the dish. And if you cook mackerel heh in a different way, then be sure to write too.
Not so long ago, Korean cuisine was a novelty for people living in the former Soviet Union. However, today sharp and piquant oriental pickles have taken root in our area. One of these unusual dishes is fish heh. This is a raw fillet marinated with spices and vegetables. How to make heh from fish so that it turns out truly tasty?
Korean mackerel hye
Now let's consider another option for preparing this dish: the original Asian one, which came to us from distant Korea.
In general, it is not known whether this dish was prepared specifically from mackerel in Korea - after all, almost any fish is suitable for cooking. Nevertheless, this recipe was indeed adopted from the Asians.
Snack ingredients:
- one kg of mackerel;
- two pieces. cucumbers;
- two pieces. bulbs;
- five cloves of garlic;
- three tbsp. greenery;
- one tsp paprika;
- ½ tsp. ground black and red pepper;
- two tbsp. Sahara;
- one tsp salt;
- three tbsp. soy sauce;
- two tbsp. sesame;
- ½ tsp. cilantro;
- two tbsp. vinegar essence.
The prepared appetizer is enough for five people.
Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes.
Calorie content per 100 g: 153 kcal.
BJU: 9/10/10 gr.
How to cook:
- Clean the mackerel. Remove the fins, then remove the skin. Thinly slice the resulting fillet;
- Place the fillet in a container with vinegar and marinate for half an hour;
- Peel the onion, chop it, fry over maximum heat;
- Add red (black) pepper and paprika, cilantro to taste to the fried onions;
- Add sugar and salt;
- Place the finished mixture over the pickled mackerel and mix thoroughly;
- Cut the cucumbers and also place them with the fish;
- Add greens and sesame seeds. Serve with soy sauce;
- Ready! Can be served.
As you have already noticed, the Korean version cooks faster and does not require long marinating in the refrigerator. It is suitable if guests come to you in literally a couple of hours, and you don’t know what to treat them with.
Simplified recipe
Ingredients for making homemade mackerel He:
- one kg of fresh mackerel;
- cilantro - to taste (you can use a mixture of seasonings);
- three tablespoons of vinegar 70%;
- soy sauce - to taste;
- three pieces onions;
- six cloves of garlic;
- fresh or ground hot pepper - to taste.
The prepared appetizer is enough for six people.
Cooking time: more than two hours.
Calorie content: 143.8 kcal.
BJU: 12.8/8.6/2.8 gr.
Stages of preparing Heh:
- Remove the backbone and bones from the fish. There is no need to remove the skin from it - it will hold the fish so that it does not fall apart during the cooking process;
- Cut the fish into small strips, about 4x2x1 centimeters;
- Place the resulting strips in a container with a lid. Add 3 tablespoons of acetic acid to the container. The fillets will marinate for 35 to 40 minutes;
- Mix the marinated mackerel thoroughly and cover the container with a lid. During the marinating time, it is better to stir it a couple more times;
- The onion is cut into rings;
- Cut the garlic cloves in the same way, but into small slices;
- Chop two small peppers. You don’t have to add it, or add ground - it will give the dish an attractive smell and color;
- Also chop the cilantro or take ground;
- The fish should lighten in color. Add chopped leeks to it (it should release a little juice);
- Add spices, garlic cloves and chopped red pepper to the same container;
- Pour a couple of spoons of soy sauce over the fish; in this case, it is not necessary to add salt. Now stir;
- The salad should brew for 40 minutes;
- The dish is ready, you can serve.
Mackerel heh is a delicious dish, so your guests will appreciate your culinary talent.
Calories: Not specified Cooking time: Not specified
In order to set the table for guests, you will need to prepare several types of main courses and, of course, snacks. Not a single feast is complete without them. While looking for something salty for a snack in the store, I didn’t find anything, so I had to use my connections. I called my sister and asked for advice on what I could cook for the guests. And my sister told me that she recently learned how to cook an excellent appetizer dish of mackerel according to a classic Korean recipe under the unusual name “he”. Looking ahead, I’ll say that I liked the result so much that I prepared this recipe with photos for you so that you can try Korean-style heh. Actually, absolutely any fish is suitable, but mackerel in this case is very good. Firstly, this fish is very tasty and healthy, and secondly, it has few bones, which is very important when you gather guests. Therefore, without thinking twice, I ran to the nearest fish store and bought fresh frozen fish there, which became the best snack. To be fair, it must be said that they also cook, and not just from fish.
- 400 grams of fresh frozen mackerel, - 0.5 pcs. bulbs - 0.5 pcs. carrots, - 2 cloves of garlic, - 30 grams of vegetable oil, - 1 teaspoon. l. granulated sugar - 0.5 teaspoon. l. salt and ground black pepper, - a couple of pinches of red ground hot pepper, - 3 tables. l. 9% vinegar, - 50 grams of water, - 0.5 teaspoon. l. Korean seasonings.
Step-by-step recipe with photos:
Let's immediately prepare the vegetables: chop them finely, or rather, three carrots on a Korean grater, and chop the onion into half rings. We’ll also squeeze in a couple of cloves of garlic for some extra flavor. We cut the mackerel along the ridge: clean it, remove the bones and the ridge itself. That is, it turns out that we simply separate the fillet. We do not remove the skin so that the mackerel can maintain its integrity. Cut the cleaned fish into small pieces. Mix the fish pieces together with the vegetables.
Season the mackerel with spices, sugar, salt and pour in vegetable oil and vinegar diluted in water. Let the fish marinate for 6-8 hours and the dish is ready. Bon Appetite! It will also be delicious.
Not so long ago, Korean cuisine was a novelty for people living in the former Soviet Union. However, today sharp and piquant oriental pickles have taken root in our area. One of these unusual dishes is fish heh. This is a raw fillet marinated with spices and vegetables. How to make heh from fish so that it turns out truly tasty?