Among the many salads and snacks prepared for the winter, hot and spicy preparations are in special demand, since they whet the appetite and go well with meat and fatty dishes, which, as a rule, are abundant in the menu in winter. Pickled cabbage with horseradish falls into this category. It will be an irreplaceable addition to many dishes and can even play the role of some kind of sauce, since it has both a sharp and sweet taste with an unforgettable aroma.
It should be noted that there is some difference between pickled and sauerkraut, although many inexperienced housewives often do not notice it. Sauerkraut is prepared without the addition of vinegar or other acid and the fermentation process in it occurs only under the influence of sugar and salt at a temperature of about + 20 ° C.
The pickled cabbage recipe necessarily includes the addition of vinegar. On the one hand, this additive speeds up the cooking process - you can try cabbage in a day. On the other hand, the addition of vinegar contributes to better preservation of the cabbage harvest.
The easiest recipe
According to the recipe, vegetables are first prepared:
- 1 kg of white cabbage;
- 1 onion turnip;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 g horseradish;
- 1 head of garlic.
Everything is washed and cleaned of outer leaves, peels and husks. Then the vegetables are cut into long, narrow pieces. This is especially important if you want to prepare a snack as quickly as possible.
For the marinade, 100 g of sugar, 50 g of salt are added to one liter of water, and spices to taste: bay leaf, allspice and black peppercorns.
The resulting mixture is brought to a boil, removed from the heat and 100 g of vinegar is poured into it.
Chopped vegetables are laid out in jars, filled with still warm marinade and left to cool in a room for several hours. Cabbage with horseradish is ready for the winter - only for long-term storage in a regular room, the jars with the blank should be additionally sterilized. Liter cans - 20 minutes, 2-liter cans - 30 minutes.
Cabbage marinated with horseradish and honey
Cooking pickled cabbage with the addition of honey is very popular, since this preparation, in addition to its unique taste, is unusually healthy, especially during an exacerbation of colds. Honey, oddly enough, goes well with horseradish in taste. You just need to remember that if you canned with the addition of honey, then it is added at the very end of the pickling process and such a dish is stored only in the refrigerator. After all, honey loses all its valuable qualities during heat treatment, which means that it is by no means possible to sterilize cans of cabbage pickled with honey.
To prepare pickled cabbage according to this recipe, you must first chop 2 kg of white cabbage, coarsely grate two medium carrots, and from 100 to 200 grams of horseradish roots.
It is better to prepare the marinade a little in advance - mix one liter of water with 35 g of salt, 10 cloves, allspice and black pepper, 4 bay leaves and 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Heat the spice mixture until the salt is completely dissolved. Then cool and stir in 2 large spoons of honey. The honey should also dissolve well.
The resulting marinade is poured into grated cabbage with carrots and horseradish and left to infuse at room temperature for about a day.
After that, pickled cabbage with honey can already be tasted, and for storage it is better to place it in the refrigerator or in the cellar.
Spicy pickled cabbage
In the next recipe, which is quite rich in composition, the horseradish pungency is complemented by chili peppers, but softened by red bell peppers.
So, find and prepare the following ingredients:
- Several heads of cabbage weighing about 3 kg;
- 0.5 kg of bell pepper;
- 160 grams of horseradish root;
- 1 chilli pod
- one bunch of parsley and celery each;
- dill seeds and a few currant leaves to taste.
The marinade will consist of a liter of water with the addition of 50 grams of salt. After the boiled marinade has cooled, add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and 4 full large spoons of honey to it according to the recipe.
Finely chop all vegetables, except for the pod of hot pepper. Grind greens and all spices additionally with a meat grinder. Mix everything in jars, top with a chilli pod cut into several pieces and pour over the cooled marinade so that all the vegetables are immersed in the liquid. Incubate the jar at a temperature of about + 20 ° C for several days, then place in a cool place.
Try one of these recipes for pickled cabbage and, most likely, one of them will become your favorite preparation for the winter for a long time.
