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Each country has its own recipes for cooking cabbage preparations. In Russia and Germany, it is customary to ferment it. And in Georgia this vegetable is traditionally pickled. This dish is spicy, as is customary in Georgian cuisine, so hot peppers, garlic and other spices are always added to it, as well as a lot of greens. The special pink color of Georgian pickled cabbage is due to the addition of beets, usually raw and sometimes boiled. The intensity of the color depends on its quantity.
Just as every Russian family has its own favorite recipe for pickling cabbage, so in Georgia it is prepared in its own way in every home.
Nevertheless, there are general rules for the preparation of this dish, which are followed by everyone.
Tips for Cooking Georgian Pickled Cabbage
- The head of cabbage for cooking should not be very large, and even more so loose.
- Do not cut the vegetable too finely. Ideally, the head of cabbage is cut into several sectors and the stump is cut. The size of the pieces depends on the density of the head of cabbage. The tightest cabbage is cut into smaller pieces.
- Beets can be cut in any way: into rings, strips or grated.
- Garlic is usually placed in blanks in whole slices, with the exception of large cloves - they are cut in half.
- The celery root is cut into rings. Celery greens are simply crumpled with your hands.
- Hot peppers are cut into two longitudinal halves. If you want a spicier dish, you can leave the seeds.
- It is better to use apple cider vinegar - it is more useful.
- The workpiece must be completely covered with brine, otherwise the product may deteriorate.
- Store the workpiece in the cold.
When you know the techniques for preparing products, let's go directly to the recipes.
Pickled cabbage prepared according to this recipe is produced in moderation. acute... It is cooked with carrots, together with a large amount of sugar, carrots give it a spicy taste. This Georgian-style pickled cabbage is instant. After standing in the refrigerator for 24 hours, it is ready to eat.
Georgian cabbage with carrots
Ingredients for one medium head of cabbage:
- 3 carrots;
- 5 small boiled beets;
- 2 large heads of garlic;
- a glass of sugar;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of fresh ground black pepper, you can replace it with peppercorns, you need 15 pieces;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of coarse salt;
- a glass of 9% vinegar;
- 0.5 cups vegetable oil;
- 5 bay leaves;
- 2 liters of water.
Fill the prepared cabbage squares with coarse salt and let them salt for a couple of hours. Cut the boiled beets and raw carrots into strips. We put vegetables in a large glass jar in layers:
- below beets;
- lavrushka and garlic;
- cabbage;
- carrot.
Prepare the marinade: boil water with spices, salt and sugar for 5 minutes. We reduce the heat, add vinegar and vegetable oil. After 2 minutes, turn off the fire. Fill the cabbage when the brine has cooled to a warm state.
The cabbage prepared according to the following recipe has a spicy taste, especially if you use the maximum amount of hot chilli peppers. Keep in mind - no sugar is added to it.
If the acid in the cabbage is attractive to you, use apple cider vinegar to cook it.
Spicy Georgian cabbage
Ingredients for one medium head of cabbage:
- 1 beet;
- 1 to 5 hot pepper pods;
- head of garlic;
- a bunch of greens, the classic recipe uses celery leaves;
- a liter of boiled water;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt.
We will cook in a 3 liter jar. We lay the products in layers: the bottom layer of fresh beets cut into strips, then the herbs crumpled in our hands.
It is enough to rub it a little in your hands so that she is ready to pour the juice and give it to the brine.
Lay the halves of hot pepper and garlic on top of the greens. Repeat the layers one more time. Prepare brine from water and salt and pour it into a jar.
Be sure to put a load, for example, a small diameter plastic water bottle, so that it fits into the neck of the can. We keep it warm from 2 to 3 days. Then we take it out into the cold.
You cannot overexpose the cabbage in the heat, otherwise it will not be as crispy as required by the recipe. This Georgian cabbage can be prepared for the winter. You need to store it in the cold.
Georgian cabbage with horseradish
Horseradish added to Georgian cabbage, prepared according to the following recipe, gives it a special taste and smell. Greens are represented by unconventional parsley.
Ingredients for a 1.5 kg head of cabbage:
- 2 beets, horseradish root, hot pepper;
- parsley;
- head of garlic;
- 0.5 cups of vegetable oil and 9% vinegar;
- a glass of sugar;
- litere of water;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of salt.
It is more convenient to make a blank in a bank. We take raw beets for this recipe, cut them into rings. Three horseradish on a coarse grater. We mix all the ingredients. We prepare brine from water, salt, oil and sugar. Boil and cool, but quite a bit. Pour vinegar into the brine and pour into a jar. Put the cooled workpiece in the refrigerator.
Delicious Georgian cabbage will be a good addition to meat dishes on a weekday. An elegant bright appetizer will decorate the festive table. And regular consumption of this valuable vegetable will bring great health benefits, enrich the body with vitamins necessary for winter.
