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Often, home cooks refuse to prepare the preparation, fearing that the shelf life of the dish will be short. Some do not like vinegar, others do not use it for health reasons. And you always want salted cabbage.
There is an original way to enjoy it in the winter - this is salting cabbage with aspirin. Such cabbage has many advantages:
- retains the look and taste of freshly prepared salad for a long time;
- stored thanks to the aspirin preservative all winter;
- goes well with various dishes;
- prepares for the winter without sterilization.
Salted cabbage with aspirin can be served as a side dish for meat, fish, cereal dishes. It is impossible to prepare a delicious vinaigrette without crispy cabbage. Therefore, the option of salting with acetylsalicylic acid will appeal to many housewives.
Good options for salting cabbage with aspirin
The main techniques that have been tested and recognized by the hostesses are the cold and hot method of salting cabbage with aspirin. Vegetables are marinated in various containers - tubs, buckets, plastic containers. But the most common one is in glass bottles. In this case, the workpiece can be safely placed in the refrigerator, which is convenient for residents of high-rise buildings.
Some nuances to note for the hostesses:
- Delicious crispy cabbage with pharmacy aspirin is obtained from medium-late varieties. Late ones are less juicy, so they take longer to pickle. And from the early varieties, the blanks are soft without a characteristic crunch and with a short shelf life.
- Carrot. We choose sweet, juicy varieties of bright saturated color. Then, our cabbage with aspirin will look very attractive on the table.
- Many recipes contain acetic acid. Some try not to use it, change it to citric acid. In our case, we are considering options with the use of acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin.
You can also salt cabbage with aspirin tablets with the addition of your favorite spices. For example, carnations. In addition to acid and salt, a rich spicy aroma will be felt in our workpiece.
Choosing a recipe for cold salting
For this method, prepare strong white heads of medium late cabbage. 3-4 pieces are enough, depending on the size, 5-6 pieces are needed for carrots. The rest of the ingredients:
- water - 4.5 liters;
- bay leaf - 5-6 pieces;
- allspice peas - 10 pieces;
- acetic acid - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar - 2 cups;
- edible salt - 1 glass;
- acetylsalicylic acid tablets - 2 pieces.
If we salt cabbage in glass bottles, we will also pay attention to them. Wash, sterilize, dry.
To marinate cabbage, you need to prepare a brine. Boil water with spices, then pour in acetic acid and immediately remove the dishes from the heat. We leave the brine to cool.
At this moment, we are preparing vegetables. Chop cabbage for pickling with aspirin in a convenient way. Who likes a kitchen vegetable shredder - great, many housewives are accustomed to using a convenient knife with a wide blade.
Wash the carrots, peel them, grate them with large holes.
We spread cabbage with carrots in sterilized banks and try the temperature of the brine. If it has cooled down, then immediately pour it into the jars. Put aspirin on top and roll it up. If vinegar is categorically undesirable, then add another aspirin tablet.
Cold pickling tips:
- We use only coarse table salt. Iodized or shallow is not suitable.The first is due to the presence of iodine, the second does not provide a rich salty taste.
- Mix chopped vegetables only with your hands. To make the cabbage with aspirin crisp, do not use a spoon or spatula.
- When unripe heads of cabbage come across for salting, keep them in boiling water for 2 minutes. Thus, the bitter taste will go away.
- Banks can be rolled up, or you can simply close them with nylon lids and put them in a cold place.
The method of cooking cabbage with cold salting aspirin is very popular. It is economical in time and does not require sterilization, which many housewives avoid.
Hot method of salting a vegetable
The very name of the method suggests that in this case we need a hot brine for pouring. The ratio of vegetables and spices can be left as in the previous version.
Wash carrots, peel and grate. Peel the cabbage from the top leaves and stumps, chop.
Mix vegetables in a separate bowl. Do not grind or wrinkle!
At the bottom of a sterile jar, put a couple of laurel leaves, a few peppercorns and 1 aspirin tablet. Fill in a third with a mixture of vegetables.
We also start the next layer - laurel, pepper, aspirin, cabbage with carrots.
We repeat three times. We do not add vinegar.
We boil water with the right amount of sugar and salt, fill in the vegetable mix and complete our actions by adding a couple of clove inflorescences.
Roll up the lids and turn over the jars for cooling. If you wrap them up, then this process will occur more slowly, which is very useful for harvesting.
Conclusion
The advantage of salted cabbage with aspirin over other types of pickling is that it is stored for a long time. If you did not eat it right away, then you can use the delicious cabbage for several years. It does not lose its qualities, it remains the same crisp and healthy.
