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Fish "Heh" in Korean

by Editorial Staff

The famous Korean dish is fish heh. Its recipe is simple and quite affordable for home cooking.

Summary

Cook Time3 hour
Total Time3 hour
CourseMain Dish
Servings (Default: 4)

Fish “Heh” in Korean Ingredients

  • Fish fillet – 300 g
  • Medium onions – 4 pcs.
  • Garlic – 5 cloves
  • Ground coriander – 1 teaspoon
  • Salt – 1 tbsp
  • Ground red pepper (hot) – 1 tbsp
  • Sugar – 2 tbsp
  • Vinegar 9% – 5 tbsp
  • or essence 70% – 1.5 tbsp
  • Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp (to taste)
  • Greens – 1 bunch (to taste)
  • Soy sauce – 1 tbsp (to taste)

Fish “Heh” in Korean

How to cook fish-hee in Korean:

Fish “Heh” in Korean Instructions

  1. Peel the fish, gut, separate the fillets, cut into cubes.
  2. Put the fillets in an enamel or glass dish, pour over vinegar (or vinegar essence), close the container tightly, and marinate for 2 hours.
  3. Peel, wash, cut the onion into rings, half rings, or checkers.
  4. Peel the garlic, chop finely.
  5. Wash greens and chop finely.
  6. Squeeze the fish out of the liquid, put it in a bowl.
    Fish “Heh” in Korean step 6
  7. Place the chopped onion and garlic on the fish.
  8. Then add coriander, black pepper, sugar, salt.
  9. Preheat a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil. Add red pepper to hot oil, stir and immediately remove oil from heat.
  10. Pour the fish over with hot oil and red pepper fried in it. Mix. Also, season the fish with herbs and soy sauce.
    Fish “Heh” in Korean step 10
  11. Mix gently and let the Korean-style he brew for half an hour.

Enjoy your meal!

Editorial Staff

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