The subtleties of cooking fried cucumbers

Fried cucumbers are good as an appetizer, and also suitable as a side dish to the main course. In this article we will talk in detail about such an unusual preparation of all our favorite cucumbers.

There are many varieties of cucumbers.One kind is good for preservation, the other - for salads. Cucumbers go well with other vegetables and herbs. This is a very juicy and healthy product. Cucumbers are 95 percent water and quench thirst well.

Cucumber is an affordable product. They are sold everywhere and in large quantities. The variety of grades satisfies every taste, and the possibility of choice expands the tastes of customers.

A variety of vegetables allows you to cook many different dishes, invent new recipes or improve existing ones.

It is always interesting to try something new, and fried cucumbers are just the way. Everything coincides: the availability of all ingredients and ease of preparation. And most importantly - the interest to fry something that has never fried, even thoughts were not allowed in this direction.

For our people, real food is the one that is fried in butter and not boiled in water. The only thing we didn’t think of was to fry cucumbers. And in vain! This dish can be reminded to taste fried zucchini or eggplant. And yet the taste is different.

If bananas are fried, why not fry cucumbers, especially since we are supporters of fried foods. It is necessary to change the taste preferences. Breaking national stereotypes.

Cucumber is a wonderful cosmetic product. It has a beneficial effect on the female body. When applied externally, these are good face masks that smooth wrinkles, improve the structure and color of the skin, combat pigment spots, perfectly remove toxic substances from the body.

Fresh cucumbers are very useful for the human body. They have both diuretic and choleretic properties, improve intestinal function, relieve swelling. But the cucumber is neutral in taste. And making it tasty, you have to press his favor.

To combine taste and benefits, do not overdo it with the ingredients. All you need is some salt, breadcrumbs and cooking oil.

Usually stars share very difficult recipes consisting of expensive products. To cook such a dish and nobody wants to starve for a month. And you want to combine originality with cheap, simple and tasty. Very often the recipe is of interest, if it is loved by a famous person. Our fried cucumbers in a frying pan are no exception: this is Alla Pugacheva's favorite dish.

This name is a great recipe ad. People are interested to try what the stars eat. Given the ease of preparation, this composition is becoming available and popular.

For cooking you will need the following ingredients:

• 2 cucumbers;
• 3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 1 pinch of ground black pepper;
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

To get the dish really tasty, you must strictly follow the sequence of actions.

1. Wash well with cucumbers. Cut off the tips on both sides, and then cut into round slices. Pickles cucumbers salt and do not touch 10 minutes to stand out more juice.
2. In a separate saucer mix breadcrumbs and black pepper. Peeled garlic cloves pass through the garlic press. Add to breading and mix.
3. Each piece of cucumber crumbed breaded. Thanks to the richness of green vegetables, breading sticks well.
4. On a frying pan heated with butter, place breaded cucumbers. Fry them from two sides for 2-3 minutes.

Fried cucumbers are good as a snack and fit as a side dish to the main course. This dish can pleasantly surprise and please the guests. Since this is a snack, and she is always the first to fly away from the table, then do not be lazy and cook it more. But it is possible and in ordinary days to arrange a holiday of taste and please yourself with something new and unusual.

We are pleasantly surprised by the recipes and Chinese cuisine.Now it is very popular. A wide variety of sauces (sweet-sour or bittersweet sauce) gives an unusual taste.

As a rule, in Chinese cuisine, everything that is done on the fire is cooked very quickly. The main feature of cooking Chinese dishes is to preserve the crunchy structure of any vegetables without losing taste and benefit.

Roasting in Chinese is quick roasting. It allows the product to remain juicy and fresh, without losing its benefits. Sichuan cuisine is famous for its healthy and at the same time very simple recipes. The taste, according to many, is very interesting, and the dish itself perfectly diversifies any table. But due to the fact that the recipe has a large amount of hot pepper, this dish is for those who like to spicy food.

Ingredients:

• 2 cucumbers;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 1 teaspoon Szechuan Huadzio pepper;
• 4 pieces of dried chili;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable or peanut butter;
• 1 \ 2 tsp of sugar;
• 1 \ 4 tsp of salt.

The cooking method is not as complicated as it may seem at first.

1. Dried chili leave for half an hour in the water. Then cut it in half. Remove the seeds and cut them into two centimeter pieces.
2. Garlic finely crumbled.
3. We take a long cucumber with a small amount of seeds, cut lengthwise into 4 parts and cut it into 5–6 cm long bars.
4. From each little bar we remove part of the seeds with pulp. Bars salt and do not touch 5 minutes.
5. On a frying pan heated with oil, fry the huadzio pepper. Add chili and some sugar to it.
6. We blanch to dissolve sugar on low heat.
7. Then we increase the fire. Put the sticks and fry for no more than 15–20 seconds. In this case, the cucumbers must be completely covered with oil.
8. Remove from heat. Give time to cool and shift to a beautiful saucer. To improve the taste of cucumbers, you can pour them with soy sauce and leave in the refrigerator.

There is another interesting dish in Chinese cuisine that stands out among the rest. This dish is very original and looks very interesting when prepared. This is not wafer tartlets, not baskets of short-pastry or even stuffed peppers, but cups of cucumbers stuffed with pork.

This dish belongs to Sichuan cuisine and is considered one of the best. This is a wonderful recipe that combines everything, creating a very tasty and fragrant snack.

Unlike the two previous recipes, pork meat is present. Pork is a very tender meat that quickly cooks and goes well with spices. The presence of pork interspersed with fried cucumbers emphasizes the variety and wide palette of tastes of Asian cuisine. This snack will appeal to every guest at your table.

The list of products in this recipe is striking in its diversity.

For cucumber cups:

• 2 cucumbers (of any kind);
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch;
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Filling:

• 250–260 grams of pork;
• 1 protein;
• 1 or 2 bunches of green onions;
• 5 grams of ginger;
• 2 tablespoons of wine (white semi-dry);
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 2 teaspoons of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil.

For submission:

• 2 teaspoons sesame oil;
• 1 or 2 bundles of cilantro (for flavor).

Time costs - 1 hour.

Servings Per Container - 6.

In this recipe, you should also strictly follow the sequence of actions.

1. Cut cucumbers into 2.5 cm flakes. Remove flesh and seeds by making a rather deep recess in the form of a cup. Sprinkle with starch over the top.
2. Grind pork meat. Ginger and onion finely chopped. Then combine all components to a homogeneous mass.
3. Fill cups of cucumbers with filling.
4. In a cauldron heated with butter, fry cucumbers to a light golden color (not on too high a fire).
5. Combine all the ingredients of the sauce and pour them cucumbers. Close the lid and cook on low heat for 7 minutes.
6. Take out the prepared cucumbers and put them on a saucer.The remaining sauce continue to cook until the volume decreases by 2 times. Then pour cucumber cups of pork over them.
7. Sprinkle each portion with sesame oil and sprinkle with chopped coriander.

Fried cucumbers can be presented on the table as a separate dish, or as a side dish to the main dish.

Summarizing the above recipes, you can look with interest at the Chinese cuisine, which dispels any doubts about the fried vegetables. And given that the fans of Chinese dishes are becoming more and more, people tend to learn the basics of cooking in the Chinese manner, to enjoy the diversity of Asian cuisine, not only on tourist trips, but also at home.

Our hostesses are very talented cooks and mastering the intricacies of foreign cuisine for them is a matter of time. People who have already prepared these recipes were very pleased. They have everything: sharpness, sweetness, and some piquancy.

All these recipes will please both vegetarians and meat eaters. The hostesses who cooked such dishes spoke of them as a very good snack. It was interesting for the guests to try our cucumber, let's call it in “batter”, in the Chinese style. Well, especially cups of pork with sauce! They delighted every guest.

Do not be lazy, experiment and try new! Enjoy your meal!

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