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Many housewives pickle cabbage. As a rule, carrots, beets, berries, peppers and various spices are added to it. But pickled cabbage with turmeric is cooked in Russia so far only a few. The workpiece acquires an amazing color, and naturally the taste also changes. About the benefits of seasoning and rules pickles will be discussed in the article.
The benefits of turmeric and more
Turmeric is a relative of ginger. This is the spice of oriental housewives. At home, the grass is called turmeric.
Turmeric contains the following components:
- Curcumin - responsible for color and spice, an excellent antioxidant and anti-cancer agent.
- Turmeric - reduces the risk of the appearance and growth of malignant skin tumors.
- Tumeron - helps with Alzheimer's disease.
- Cineol - completely replaces the usual mucoltin when coughing.
In addition to these main components, turmeric contains many different vitamins and minerals.
Scientists from the field of medicine have long paid attention to turmeric and are studying its beneficial properties. Doctors prescribe a spicy seasoning for many diseases, especially for people who have problems:
- from the gastrointestinal tract;
- sore joints;
- women during menopause and when carrying a baby;
- during metabolism;
- diseases of the cardiovascular system and anemia;
- mixed with creams heals burns.
The list of beneficial properties of the spicy seasoning can be continued for a long time, but it seems to us that this is enough for you to be convinced of the benefits of turmeric.
But not everyone can eat turmeric, so if you think about pickling cabbage with this spice, please read the information. So, turmeric is contraindicated:
- with gallstone disease:
- with hypotension;
- in the presence of diabetes mellitus (possible in minimal doses).
Recipes
There are many options for cooking pickled cabbage with turmeric. We will give just a few. Marinate the vegetable, try, choose, it is possible that you write down one of the recipes in your notebook and will constantly use it.
The first way
We need the following products:
- one kilogram of white cabbage;
- one large carrot;
- one clove of garlic;
- one Bulgarian pepper (preferably red);
- 50 ml of refined vegetable oil;
- 5 cloves buds;
- one teaspoon of turmeric;
- one teaspoon allspice peas;
- 4 leaves of lavrushka.
We will prepare the marinade in 0.7 liters of water from:
- 100 ml of 9% table vinegar;
- 100 grams of granulated sugar;
- 45 grams of table salt;
Pickling stages
- First, we prepare all the ingredients. Remove the top greenish leaves from the heads of cabbage and rinse them under running water. While the moisture is draining off, wash and clean the carrots, Bulgarian sweet pepper and garlic.
- This recipe involves cutting cabbage into large in pieces.
- We rub the carrots on a regular or Korean grater, the main thing is that it turns out to be long straws.
- Select seeds and partitions from pepper, cut into strips.
- But the slicing of garlic is different, you need to get thin slices from it.
- After mixing the cabbage, carrots, garlic and peppers in a large bowl, add the cloves, lavrushka and allspice peas. Fill everything on top with vegetable oil and sprinkle with turmeric.
While the vegetables are soaking, prepare the marinade.Add salt, granulated sugar and vinegar to clean water, boil and immediately, while there are still bubbles, pour vegetables.
Cabbage is pickled quickly, within a day you can cook any dishes from it. Pickled cabbage with turmeric, put into convenient containers, can be stored in a cool place.
Method two
For quick preparation of pickled cabbage with turmeric according to the following recipe, we will prepare in advance:
- white cabbage - 2 kg;
- granulated sugar - 200 grams;
- table vinegar 9% - 180 ml;
- olive oil - 100 ml;
- water - 1000 ml;
- not iodized salt - 60-90 grams;
- turmeric - 1 teaspoon;
- ground cloves and dry mustard powder - a third of a teaspoon each.
According to the recipe's recommendations, add turmeric to the cabbage, cut into checkers, add vegetable oil, mix gently.
Add mustard, cloves, granulated sugar and salt to boiling water. After 2 minutes, pour in the vinegar. Pour the boiling marinade into the vegetables.
Cover the cabbage with a plate and put a jar of water. We will marinate vegetables for no more than 12 hours. For lunch, you can serve a salad of amber-yellow pickled cabbage with turmeric for meat or fish dishes and boiled potatoes.
Marinate cabbage with pepper and turmeric:
Conclusion
Any housewife can marinate cabbage according to ready-made recipes, it would be desirable. But we want to warn our readers against mistakes:
- When choosing cabbage for pickling, opt for medium to late maturing cabbages.
- The forks should be tight and juicy.
- Heads of cabbage with green leaves are not suitable for pickling: they are needed only with white leaves. Otherwise, bitterness will be felt in the finished product.
Explore recipes, experiment, share your options and discoveries of pickling cabbage with our readers. Good luck with your blanks.
