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In winter, the human body lacks vitamin C. You can replenish its balance with the help of salted cabbage. No wonder it has long been called a garden lemon. Exactly at salted cabbage it is several times more than in citrus fruits.
Salting cabbage in a saucepan, with the right conditions, you can keep her until the new harvest. During the winter, you can cook not only salads and soups from pickling, but also delicious cabbage pies and pies. We offer several recipes to choose from salting cabbage in a saucepan.
Salt or ferment
There are several ways to prepare a white vegetable for the winter: salting, pickling and pickling. If there are no problems with the latter method, then disputes often arise about salted or sauerkraut.
Let's try to understand this issue:
- When salting, more salt is used, although the quality of the cabbage does not deteriorate from this. The finished product is obtained in a few days, and sauerkraut can be tasted after 7-10 days, or even later.
- Salted cabbage retains nutrients and vitamins better than sauerkraut.
- Salted and sauerkraut contain calcium, so it is able to normalize blood pressure, strengthen the heart muscle.
As you can see, both products are a great way to preserve vegetables in winter. So it's up to you to choose salting or pickling.
Choosing a pot for pickling
Before introducing the recipes, let's talk about what kind of dishes you need to take for salted cabbage.
As a rule, wooden ones are best for salting vegetables. barrels... But today it is difficult to find a storage place for such a container. Therefore, modern housewives prefer enameled dishes: buckets, pots. The size is chosen according to the needs of the family.
Novice housewives often ask if vegetables can be salted in an aluminum bowl. This question has been discussed for more than a dozen years, but there is no definite answer yet: opinions differ. But we still don't recommend pickling or pickling cabbage in an aluminum saucepan.
And that's why:
- Firstly, as it was noticed by experienced housewives, the salting turns out to be dark.
- Secondly, and this is perhaps the most important thing - when salting, alkali and acids present in the brine enter into a chemical reaction with aluminum.
- Thirdly, the taste of metal is felt in salted cabbage.
Salt cabbage so that the table is not empty in winter
Recipe number 1
We stock up for salting in a saucepan with the following products:
- cabbage heads - 6 kg;
- large carrots - 7 pieces;
- bay leaf and allspice (peas) - to taste;
- table salt - 420 grams;
- granulated sugar - 210 grams;
- water - 7 liters.
Salting method
- We need a cold one to fill brine... It must be cooked before preparing vegetables. Pour 7 liters of water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add sugar and salt according to the recipe and boil for 5 minutes until the ingredients dissolve.
- The recipe involves finely shredding cabbage and carrots. You can use a board or an ordinary sharp knife for this purpose. Carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater.
- Mix vegetables in a large bowl, do not add salt. We grind them until the juice appears.
- Fold into a saucepan in layers, each with pepper and bay leaves and garlic (optional). After putting in a serving of the vegetable mixture, wrinkle it as tightly as possible.
- When the pan is full, fill it with brine. Cover the top with cabbage leaves, put a plate and bend. As oppression, you can use a three-liter jar filled with water.
After 5 days, you can taste delicious crispy cabbagesalted in a saucepan.
Recipe number 2
This version of salted cabbage in a saucepan will appeal to spicy lovers, since there are hot peppers among the ingredients. According to this recipe, salting is obtained quickly and tasty, in just a day.
So, we will need the following ingredients:
- forks - 3 kg;
- carrots - 500 grams;
- garlic - 1 head;
- hot ground red pepper - 1 teaspoon;
- black pepper - a few peas (to taste);
- essence 70% - 2.5 tablespoons;
- granulated sugar - 30 grams;
- coarse salt - 70 grams.
Cooking features
- First, we deal with the brine. The recipe needs a little of it. Pour a glass of raw water into a saucepan, add salt, sugar and dissolve well, pour in the essence.
- We chop the vegetables at our discretion, put everything together.
If you chop part of the cabbage finely, and the second large, then the taste of salting will be more interesting, since salting will not occur simultaneously. - Add garlic and pepper to the carrots and mix well.
- Put a layer of cabbage in a saucepan, then a mixture of carrots with garlic and pepper. In this sequence, we carry out the work until the pan is filled.
- Pour the brine into a saucepan with pickling, cover the surface with cabbage leaves. Top plate and bends.
Put the cabbage, quickly cooked according to this recipe, into small jars, add brine from the pan to the top and close with nylon lids. We will store it in the refrigerator.
Recipe number 3
Would you like to get delicious pickling in a casserole dish of an unusual color? Then use the suggested recipe. It combines white and red cabbage and beets.
What you need:
- both types of cabbage, one head of cabbage;
- beets - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 3 pieces;
- water - 2 liters;
- rock salt - 120 grams;
- some fine salt;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- essence - 1.5 tablespoons;
- sugar - 60 grams;
- vegetable oil (refined) - 2 tablespoons;
- dill sprigs with umbrellas and currant leaves - at your discretion.
How to salt
- Cut the peeled forks in half and shred. And half redhead and white cabbage according to the recipe, chop finely, like noodles, and the remaining halves are coarsely.
- Combine both types of cabbage with carrots, add fine salt, mix and knead well.
- Three carrots and beets on a coarse grater or chop. You can do the same as with cabbage to get different cuts.
- Chop the peeled garlic in a press.
- At the bottom of the pan, put the sprigs of dill and currants, cabbage with carrots on top, then beets, garlic. In this order, lay out the ingredients in layers until they run out. We compact each layer well.
You will need a hot pickle to pickle the cabbage. It is prepared from oil, vinegar (optional), salt, sugar in a separate saucepan. Fill in the cabbage and proceed as usual.
If you used vinegar, then the delicious pickling in the pan will be ready in 5 hours. You will have to wait a little longer without vinegar.
Recipe number 4
A large amount of salted cabbage is not always required. Sometimes you urgently need to salt a small batch, while, for example, the dough for pies is being nursed.
Would need:
- a kilogram of cabbage;
- three carrots;
- three cloves of garlic.
For the brine, you need to prepare:
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- 10 tablespoons 9% table vinegar;
- 15 grams of granulated sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of coarse salt
- 500 ml of water.
The head of cabbage, according to the recipe, is chopped into small strips, carrots on a coarse grater, and the garlic is chopped using a garlic press.
After mixing vegetables with garlic, put everything in a saucepan and fill it with boiling brine (the brine is prepared in the usual way). After six hours, you can try salting, prepare salads, vinaigrette, pies from it.
Salt cabbage in a saucepan according to an old recipe:
Salting tips for cabbage
For a tasty and crunchy pickling in a saucepan, follow our advice:
- Choose tight heads of cabbage with white, late-maturing, integumentary leaves, free from damage or signs of disease. Use young cabbage. Probably, many will be surprised by this definition. There is nothing special - this is cabbage, ripe this fall.
- To pickle cabbage quickly in a saucepan, use boiling or hot brine.
- Cabbage can be cut as you like: into small strips, slices or chunks.
- The horseradish root added during salting will give the vegetable a special crunchiness and aroma.
- You need to salt vegetables with salt without additives. Remember that iodine will not only soften, but also make the preparation unsuitable for human consumption.
