Autumn is coming, which means that it is a hot time for making all kinds of supplies for the winter, which can help in our difficult time fill the menu of your family with tasty and healthy dishes. And in winter and early spring, when there is a particularly acute shortage of fresh or spicy vitamin snacks, pickled cabbage with apples will come in handy.
In addition to the simplicity of making this dish, one should also take into account its exceptional budget, although it can become a real decoration of the table. Indeed, in the fall, in season, cabbage is one of the cheapest and at the same time vitamin vegetables. And apples, if a harvest year is already issued, are ubiquitous and are often distributed just like that, so that they do not disappear and are used profitably. Not to mention those cases when cabbage and apples grow on your site. Therefore, pickled cabbage, harvested with apples for the winter, will not cause practically any material costs, and the benefits can be simply extraordinary.
Cabbage with apples - the most delicious recipe
Of course, when pickling cabbage, apples are perhaps the most common addition after carrots. But fermented preparations are not stored for a very long time and require special storage conditions, which are not always found in an ordinary apartment.
And at any time you can open it, put it on the table and enjoy the spicy and slightly pungent taste of this easy-to-make snack.
So, get your vegetables ready first. White cabbage, if you want to use it for rolling for the winter, you must choose dense, with light leaves. Of course, it is best to use mid-season or late varieties, but this is only possible if you grow cabbage in your own garden. In other cases, you will have to rely on the decency of the sellers. However, in the midst of autumn, after the first frost, cabbage varieties suitable for pickling are usually sold.
For 2 kg of cabbage, you will need to find about two more medium-sized carrots and 5-6 sweet and sour apples.
It is better to cut the cabbage into narrow long strips, although if you prefer rectangles, then this method of shredding is not excluded, it is only important that they are small in size.
Carrots are grated on a coarse grater, and apples are freed from seeds. Do not remove the peel, since it is in it that most of the nutrients are contained. It is best to cut the apples into thin slices.
All chopped vegetables are placed in a large container and mixed well. To them are added 60 g of salt, 200 g of sugar, one teaspoon of dill seeds and 10 pieces of black and allspice peas.
Mix everything well again, close the lid and set aside for a few hours. During this time, you can sterilize jars with lids, into which the blank for the winter will fit, and prepare the marinade.
To do this, one and a half liters of water is heated to a boil and combined with one glass of vinegar. Boil for literally a few minutes and remove from heat.
The whole vegetable mixture with spices is laid out in jars and poured with marinade.
Vegetables are lightly compacted when stacked and filled with marinade so that they are covered with liquid on top.
From such a number of vegetables and pouring, 4 liter cans of blank should be obtained. In order for the cabbage pickled for the winter to be stored under normal room conditions, the filled jars are sterilized for 25 minutes in boiling water and rolled up with sterile lids. After that, in an inverted state, they are wrapped in a blanket and left to cool completely.
Secrets of delicious pickled cabbage
What housewives need to remember so that pickled cabbage turns out to be really tasty.
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Firstly, in order for the finished cabbage to crunch with pleasure, it is necessary to choose dense tight heads of cabbage.
- Secondly, adding cherry, oak or horseradish leaves to the marinade will also increase the crunchiness of daily pickled cabbage. Perhaps someone has already come across this cooking feature when pickling cucumbers.
- Third, when using bay leaves, it is removed from the marinade after boiling so that it does not add extra bitterness to the dish.
- Fourthly, to add a piquant aroma and taste to ready-made cabbage dishes, finely chopped ginger root is added to vegetables.
- Fifth, in an effort to diversify the flavor palette, do not limit yourself to standard marinade spices like allspice and black pepper and bay leaf. Feel free to experiment with adding spices such as cumin, coriander, basil, savory, tarragon, rosemary.
- Sixth, when pickling cabbage for the winter, in addition to carrots and apples, you can use a wide variety of vegetables and fruits: cranberries, lingonberries, plums, beets, onions and bell peppers.
In addition to the fact that pickled cabbage salad with apples is itself a spicy and tasty dish, pickled vegetables from it are not forbidden to be added to other salads from fresh and boiled vegetables. Thus, you can create additional flavor variations and thus diversify your menu.
