Winter salad of cabbage with green tomatoes

Content

1 Basic rules for preparing salads
2 Salad options
3 Conclusion

Tomatoes cannot always reach technical maturity on our plots. Most often, at the end of the warm season, unripe fruits remain on the bushes. It's a pity to throw them away, after all, in the summer I had to put in a lot of work. Fortunately, there are many interesting recipes in which green tomatoes are the main ingredients. It turns out tasty and healthy.

We suggest preparing a salad for the winter with cabbage and green tomatoes. In the recipes, in addition to the main ingredients, you can use other vegetables, herbs and all kinds of spices, depending on the taste preferences of your family members. We will tell you about the nuances of making salad from green tomatoes and cabbage, and show a video filmed by the hostesses.

Basic rules for preparing salads

If you decide to use green tomatoes for making salads, then you need to observe some points:

For an appetizer, you need to take the fruits of meaty varieties, otherwise, instead of salad, you will get porridge.
The fruits should be firm, free from rot and cracks.
Before preparing salads, green tomatoes must be soaked. The fact is that they contain a poison that is harmful to humans - solanine. To get rid of it, you can pour the fruits for 2-3 hours with cold water or salted for an hour, adding 2 tablespoons of salt per liter of water. Then the tomatoes need to be rinsed with clean water.
It is not necessary to take only green tomatoes; brown tomatoes are also suitable for salad with cabbage.
All vegetables used in the salad must be thoroughly rinsed and peeled as required by the recipe.

Attention! Cook the salad strictly in time, otherwise the tomatoes will boil.

Salad options

As we already said, there are many salad recipes that use cabbage and green tomatoes. After all, every housewife in her kitchen is a real experimenter. As a rule, they try to share their “inventions” with family and friends. We suggest trying several options and choosing the one that will be the most delicious.

Hunting Salad

It is not known why the appetizer received such a name, because the recipe uses products that are quite familiar to Russians and nothing related to hunting.

We need:

1 kg of green or brown tomatoes;
1 kg of cabbage;
2 pods of hot pepper;
10 black peppercorns;
7 peas of allspice;
7 leaves of lavrushka;
2 onion heads;
250 ml of apple cider vinegar;
head of garlic;
1 tbsp. l. vinegar essence;
90 grams of sugar;
60 grams of salt.

Important! Iodized salad salt is not suitable as this additive will be felt during consumption.

Cooking features:

Cut the washed tomatoes into medium-sized slices, onions into half rings. Cut off the tail of a hot pepper. The seeds, if you want the salad to be very spicy, you can leave. We also cut the peppers into rings. Chop the cabbage into strips.
We transfer the vegetables to an enamel container, press down with a small load and leave for 12 hours.

It is not recommended to use aluminum dishes, since the element comes into contact with food, and this is harmful to health.
The juice released from the vegetables must be drained. Then you need to sugar and salt, add allspice and black peppercorns, bay leaves. We rearrange the container on the stove on a slow fire and wait for the mass to boil. Cook for no more than 10 minutes.
Then pour in apple cider vinegar and garlic. After 2 minutes, distribute the cabbage salad with green tomatoes into the jars and immediately roll up.Glass jars and lids must be washed in hot water with soda, rinsed and heated over steam for at least 10-15 minutes.

Green tomato salad is a great addition to any dish.

Vitamin rainbow

We are used to the fact that a rainbow appears in the sky after rain. But such a phenomenon can be on your table if you prepare a delicious vitamin salad, where the main ingredients are cabbage and green tomatoes. But the added vegetables will give the appetizer not only a special taste, but also color. Let's give ourselves and our loved ones pleasure and cook Vitamin Rainbow.

Despite the fact that there are many products on the list of ingredients, all of them are quite affordable for any Russian:

We need:

cabbage - 2 kg;
small green tomatoes - 2 kg;
carrots - 1 kg;
5 heads of garlic;
sweet bell pepper of red or orange color - 1 kg;
dill and coriander seeds - 4 teaspoons each;
carnation buds - 10 pieces;
allspice and black pepper - 10 peas each;
lavrushka - 8 leaves;
vinegar essence - 4 tablespoons;
vegetable oil - 8 large spoons;
salt - 180 grams;
granulated sugar - 120 grams.

Attention! Take vegetable oil, refined, not flavored, and salt without additives, intended for canning.

How to cook:

Cut the peeled cabbage into checkers and add 2 tablespoons of salt. We grind it so that the juice stands out, put the load and put it in the refrigerator for a day.
Fill the cabbage with clean water, rinse and discard in a colander.
We wash all the vegetables, then cut the washed and peeled green tomatoes into medium slices.
Remove the husk from the garlic and cut the cloves into two parts.
After peeling, cut the carrots into 0.5 x 3 cm cubes.
Cut off the tails of sweet pepper, shake out the seeds and remove the partitions. We cut them in the same way as carrots.
Add chopped vegetables to the cabbage. Stir gently so as not to disturb the integrity of the green tomato slices.
Put lavrushka and spices in sterile jars, then vegetables.
When the jars are full, let's start the marinade. Boil 4 liters of water, sugar, salt, boil again, then add vinegar essence.
Immediately pour the marinade into jars, and from above to the very neck - vegetable oil.
We roll up the jars of cabbage and green tomatoes, turn it upside down and wrap it with a towel. We leave in this position until the contents of the jars have cooled.

Cabbage salad with green tomatoes is stored perfectly even on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cabinet.

Attention! The appetizer according to this recipe is not served immediately to the table, readiness occurs only after 1.5-2 months.

Sterilization option

To prepare a delicious snack, we need to stock up on:

green tomatoes - 1 kg;
white cabbage - 1 kg;
turnip onions - 2 heads;
sweet bell peppers - 2 pieces;
granulated sugar - 3.5 level tablespoons;
salt - 30 grams;
table vinegar 2 tablespoons;
black pepper - 6 peas each.

Slicing and initial preparation for cooking salad is similar to the previous option. After 12 hours, drain the juice, add all the other ingredients specified in the recipe and cook after boiling for 10 minutes.

We put it in prepared jars and put it to sterilize in boiling water. Roll up and put in a cool place for storage.

Conclusion

Green tomato salad with cabbage can be served as a regular snack. But if you show your imagination, add fresh cucumbers, a green onion, chopped parsley or dill to it, you will get an amazingly tasty and healthy dish that will remind you of summer. You can serve salad with meat, fish, poultry. But even if there is an ordinary boiled potatoes on the table, then a snack from cabbage and tomatoes will be very useful. Bon appetit, everyone!