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Experienced housewives know that there is never too much cabbage in the kitchen, because fresh vegetables can be used in soups, salads, hodgepodge and even pies. And if fresh cabbage is still bored, then you can always take care of its salting or pickling. You need to salt or ferment the cabbage for a long time. Usually, the whole process of harvesting a vegetable takes about 4 days. You can make a pickled appetizer much faster. In just a few hours, a fresh vegetable turns into a fragrant, tasty and very healthy salad. Such an appetizer will perfectly complement dishes from potatoes, cereals, meat, fish or poultry. Pickled vegetables can be eaten not only in season, but also harvested for future use. You can learn how to properly pickle fresh cabbage from the sections below in the article.
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The secret to making pickled cabbage is to use a pickle or pickle. Most often, it contains a standard set of ingredients: salt, spices, sugar and vinegar. It is the brine that makes the cabbage salad tasty and aromatic. Each recipe has a different amount of ingredients in the brine, making the appetizer sweeter, saltier, or sour. Condiments and spices can also be added by the cook based on personal preference. You can use bay leaves, various types of peppers, cloves and even turmeric.
Pickled cabbage it always comes out crispy and fresh, while the pickled version of the salad can be slimy and too soft. This is due to the fact that pickling takes place not in natural vegetable juice obtained by grinding cabbage, but in an artificially created brine.
Thus, the advantages of pickled cabbage are:
- Simplicity, high cooking speed.
- The ability to adjust the taste characteristics of the salad by adding one or another ingredient to the brine.
- There is no likelihood that the salad will turn acid.
- Always crispy and aromatic cabbage.
Having decided to make a pickled salad for your family, you can choose a ready-made recipe and, if necessary, make minor adjustments to its composition. Experienced housewives can show off their skills and come up with their own unique recipe on their own. We will try to offer several proven options for making this dish.
A classic recipe for beginners and pros
The classic recipe allows you to prepare a very tasty and aromatic cabbage from a limited number of ingredients with the least amount of time. It is convenient to marinate salad in a large enamel saucepan or glass jar. For example, in order to fill one can, with a volume of 3 liters, you need to use 1 medium-sized head of cabbage. The original bright color and additional sweetness of the salad will be given by carrots, the amount of which, ideally, should be 10% of the volume of cabbage. Garlic, black peppercorns and bay leaves will give the salad a spicy taste and aroma. The taste of traditional, classic cabbage will be preserved and emphasized by a brine prepared from 1 liter of water, 2 tbsp. l. salt, 1 tbsp. l. Sahara. Vinegar is included in the brine in an amount of only 1 tsp.
It is recommended to prepare fresh cabbage salad as follows:
- Cut the cabbage into strips.
- Grate the carrots or cut into thin slices.
- Mix the chopped vegetables.
- Put spices and lightly chopped garlic on the bottom of a dry and clean jar.
- Fill the main volume of the jar with a tightly packed mixture of carrots and cabbage.
- Pour water into a saucepan, boil it and add sugar and salt. Boil the marinade for 8-10 minutes.
- Fill the jars with hot marinade.
- Add vinegar to the pickled cabbage and close the containers with an airtight lid.
- Place the jars in a warm blanket and leave to cool completely.
As soon as the jar of pickled cabbage has cooled, you can open it and serve the finished product on the table. If you decide to leave the salad for future use, then you should take care of storing it in a cool place.
Pickled cabbage with oil
Vegetable oil is an excellent preservative that allows you to preserve any product for a long time, including fresh pickled cabbage. At the same time, the oil makes vegetables more tender and appetizing. It is necessary to add the vegetable component directly to the brine, which will allow it to be evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of pickled vegetables.
Pickled cabbage recipes with the addition of vegetable oil is quite a lot. Most of them differ only in the amount of one or another ingredient, be it salt or sugar. We will try to describe in detail only one universal cooking option.
The proposed recipe is designed for 2 kg of cabbage. In addition to the main vegetable, the recipe will contain carrots and a couple of garlic cloves. To prepare the brine, you will need 1 liter of water, 200 ml of vinegar and the same amount of oil. Sugar and salt must be added to the marinade in the amount of 3 and 8 tbsp. l. respectively. A characteristic spicy aroma can be obtained with 5 bay leaves.
You need to start preparing pickled salad by peeling and chopping vegetables: grate carrots, cut cabbage into pieces. Mix pre-chopped garlic with carrots. Fill the pickling container in layers, alternating cabbage with a mixture of carrots and garlic.
In boiling water, you need to prepare the marinade by adding sugar, salt, vinegar, oil. Also, laurel leaves should be included in the marinade, since during heat treatment they exude the most pleasant spicy aroma. It is necessary to boil the marinade literally for 2-3 minutes. Ready, hot brine, you need to pour vegetables and put oppression on top of them. After a couple of hours, the marinade will cool down, and the cabbage itself will acquire a very rich, pleasant taste and aroma.
Cabbage with onions
You can make a healthy and tasty salad from cabbage and onions. So, for 2 kg of white "beauty" you need to add 3 large onions. Also, in the preparation of pickled delicacies, you will need laurel leaves and black peppercorns. The brine must be prepared on the basis of 1 liter of water, salt, sugar and 1 incomplete glass of vinegar 6%. Sweet sand and salt can be added to taste, but the recipe recommends using 2 and 1 tbsp. l. these ingredients respectively.
For pickling, vegetables need to be chopped finely. This is especially true of the onion: its half rings should be translucent. Shredded vegetables must be tightly packed in a glass jar or saucepan, at the bottom of which spices (pepper and laurel) are already deliberately placed.
Add vinegar, salt and sugar to boiling water. After 2-3 minutes, the marinade will be ready. They need to pour vegetables and insist them for 7-10 hours. During this time, the cabbage will become surprisingly tasty and will be able to complement any other dish on the table.
So, to get an unobtrusive orange hue for 2 kg of cabbage, you need to add 1 tsp. turmeric without a slide.
Cabbage with beets
While the orange color of lettuce can be obtained by adding turmeric, the pink hue is evidence of the presence of beets. Pickled pink cabbage always looks appetizing and interesting on the table.
The composition of the "pink" salad should include only one beet and medium-sized carrots, as well as a few cloves of garlic. Such a set of simple vegetable products can complement 3 kg of cabbage. To prepare the marinade, you will need 1 tbsp. sugar and the same 6% vinegar, half a glass of oil and 2 tbsp. l. salt. Laurel leaves and black peppercorns can be added to the marinade to taste.
Preparing a pickled snack will not take much time, if only because the cabbage does not need to be chopped finely. It is enough to cut it into quarters or squares. Cut the beets and carrots into slices, slices. You need to put vegetables in rows in a container, pouring pieces of head of cabbage with carrots and beets.
You need to cook the marinade with the addition of sugar, salt, oil and vinegar. Garlic and spices should also be added to the hot marinade. Before pouring, the brine must be slightly cooled so as not to "kill" the nutrients in fresh vegetables. After pouring, put oppression on top of the vegetables. After just 1 day, the salad is ready to serve.
Cabbage with herbs and horseradish
It is no secret that seasonings and spices give a unique taste to pickled salad. So, the recipe proposed below combines the most aromatic and useful components. For 2 kg of ordinary cabbage, you need to use 30 g of horseradish (root), 20 g of garlic and 5 g of red hot ground pepper. Herbs and herbs are the “calling card” of the recipe. It is recommended to use celery, parsley, tarragon and even currant leaves. Each type of greens should be used in an amount of 5-10 g. To complement the flavoring composition, it will be useful to use dill seed. You need to prepare the marinade in the usual way, by adding 20 g of sugar and salt to 1 liter of water, as well as 1 tbsp. vinegar 6%.
You need to pickle cabbage as follows:
- Chop cabbage and garlic into thin slices.
- Grind horseradish with a meat grinder.
- Boil the marinade with sugar and salt. After cooling down, pour vinegar into the liquid.
- Put half of the greens and dill seeds on the bottom of the container.
- Fill the main volume of the container with a mixture of cabbage and horseradish. Cover it on top with another layer of greenery and seeds.
- Pour the vegetables with cooled brine and insist the pickled appetizer for a day.
Instant pickled cabbage with herbs and horseradish always turns out to be very aromatic and tasty. However, it will not be possible to store it all winter: literally in a month, it will begin to lose its qualities.
Cabbage to everyone's surprise
It is imperative to try cabbage with bell pepper, honey and lemon, because its taste is very bright and literally unlike anything else. Cooking such cabbage will not be particularly difficult, which means that even a novice housewife will be able to surprise her loved ones with such a pickled salad.
To prepare pickled cabbage, you need 3 kg of a white vegetable, 1 kg of Bulgarian sweet peppers and 1 medium-sized lemon. The marinade for the dish will consist of 1 liter of water, 2 tsp. salt and half a glass of natural honey.
You need to cook an appetizer like this:
- Finely chop the heads of cabbage and mix with slices of bell pepper.
- Cut the unpeeled lemon into rings.
- Fill clean jars with a mixture of crushed ingredients.
- Boil the marinade and fill the jars with hot liquid.
- Close the containers to cool hermetically first at room conditions, and then in the refrigerator chamber.
Cabbage with lemon and honey is perfectly stored and can be used as a canned winter harvest.
Conclusion
The recipes described above can satisfy the needs of literally every family. Spicy herbs, sweet honey, aromatic spices are part of a recipe. Another fundamentally excellent option for cooking cabbage with tomatoes is shown in the video:
Thus, we offered a variety of options for preparing a pickled appetizer, while the decision on the choice of a particular recipe always remains with the culinary specialist.
