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Salted cabbage is loved by almost all Russians. This vegetable is always on the table in the form of salads, stewed, in cabbage soup, borscht, pies. White crispy cabbage it's easy to get if you follow the cooking technology.
Most often, this vegetable is fermented, that is, it is subjected to a fermentation process that takes at least a week. But you can salt cabbage in a day, this is the beauty of the preparation.
Choosing and cooking cabbage
Salting cabbage is not so difficult, but we need to get a delicious finished product. And for this you need to purchase high-quality vegetables for pickling: cabbage, carrots and additives that you like more: berries or fruits.
Let's start with the main pickled vegetable, cabbage:
- you need to choose mid-ripening or late-ripening varieties;
- heads of cabbage should not be frozen;
- the upper leaves of a mature fork are light green, tough;
- the head of cabbage is dense, when pressed, it should emit a crunch.
Salt quickly and tasty - recipes
Salting cabbage methods great variety, each of them has its own flavor. Salted cabbage can be obtained in a day, as opposed to pickling. We bring to your attention some interesting recipes containing various additional ingredients. For salting, you will need three-liter jars.
Preparation of ingredients
We will not separately talk about how to prepare vegetables for salting in each recipe. We will dwell on this issue separately, since they are still the same.
- We remove the top leaves from the forks, as they may have dust and minor damage from insects. We cut out a stump of each fork. Shred cabbage in different ways. Can be in strips or in chunks, depending on the recipe. For chopping, use a knife, a shredder board or a special knife with two blades, as it is convenient for anyone.
- We wash the carrots in cold water, remove the peel, rinse again and lay out on a napkin to dry. This vegetable is chopped either on a grater, or cut into small strips with a knife.
- If the recipe provides for black or allspice peas, bay leaves, then they must be rinsed in cold water and dried before being added to salting.
- If garlic is used in the recipe, then it is divided into cloves, the integumentary scales are cleaned, washed and chopped in accordance with the recipe's recommendations.
Recipe 1 - in brine without vinegar per day
Fill hot brine allows you to get salted cabbage quickly. The salting is ready in a day. Not only white cabbage varieties are suitable for this recipe, but also red cabbage... In the traditional way that our ancestors used, they cut a vegetable for pickling into pieces. When serving, you can add any greens, onions. As a rule, salads with cabbage are seasoned with vegetable oil.
What you need:
- head of cabbage - 1 piece;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- black or allspice - 5-6 peas;
- lavrushka - 3-5 leaves;
- water - 1 liter;
- salt (not iodized) - 30 grams;
- granulated sugar - 15 grams.
Salting method
- Mix cabbage with carrots on the table or in a basin and mix well and knead.
- We spread the first layer in a dry sterile jar, add pepper and bay leaves. We compact the mass.If your hand doesn't fit into the jar, you can use a mashed potatoes. We fill the jar not to the very top, leave it free about 5 cm, fill it with hot brine and pierce it to penetrate the brine to the very bottom.
- Pour salt and granulated sugar into boiling water, mix well. Bring to a boil again and fill the jars.
You don't need to cover the jar. It is placed on a pallet (the juice rises upward during salting and can overflow) in a warm place. After 24 hours a sample can be taken. Store the jar in the refrigerator or basement.
Fast cabbage per day in cold brine:
Recipe 2 - with garlic per day
You can pickle cabbage with garlic. It turns out very tasty. You don't have to stock up on special ingredients.
We manage:
- a kilogram of white cabbage;
- one carrot;
- 3 or 4 cloves of garlic;
- one liter of water;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- two tablespoons of salt;
- a glass of table vinegar;
- water - 1 liter, it is not recommended to take tap water to prepare the brine, since it contains chlorine;
- table vinegar - 1 glass;
- vegetable oil - half a glass.
How to salt
For salting cabbage for a day, use a jar or pan. White cabbage is placed in a container in layers, then carrots and garlic. Fill the filled dishes with boiling brine.
How to prepare a pickle, now we will tell you:
- Pour salt and sugar into boiling water, pour in vegetable oil.
- When the water boils again, remove from the stove, add table vinegar.
For 24 hours the cabbage will be salted in the room. Salted in this way, cabbage is stored in the refrigerator.
Recipe 3 - instant cabbage
Have you tried cooking salted cabbage for an hour? If not, then we offer you an interesting recipe. Try it, you won't regret it. After all, situations often happen when salted cabbage is needed quickly, as people say, yesterday.
You don't have to wait several days as traditional recipes require. Just 60 minutes and you're done. And it turns out not only quickly, but also surprisingly tasty!
Stock up on these products:
- forks for 2 kg;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- sweet bell pepper - 1 or 2 pieces;
- garlic - 5 or 6 cloves (depending on taste).
Cooking features
Chop the head of cabbage, as small as possible, grate the carrots on a Korean grater. To make the dish look festive, you can cut the carrots into thin slices. Bell peppers are cleaned of seeds and partitions and cut into thin strips.
Vegetables are alternately laid out in a jar in layers: the first and the last are cabbage.
For the brine you will need:
- water - 1 liter;
- coarse salt - 70 grams;
- sugar - 100 grams;
- refined oil - 200 ml;
- table vinegar - 100 ml (if vinegar essence, then 2 tablespoons).
Place a pot of water on fire and bring to a boil. Salt and sugar it. If it seems to you that there is not enough salt, you can add to taste. But look, do not oversalt! Then add the rest of the ingredients except the vinegar. Pour it in after removing the pan from the stove.
We use boiling brine for filling. When the jar of vegetables has cooled down, you can try. Fast and delicious cabbage is ready for use not in a day, but in an hour.
But you understand that this cannot stop our hostesses who want to always have such a wonderful piece at hand. After all, it can be served with various herbs, onions. And what a delicious vinaigrette turns out - you will lick your fingers.
Fans of oriental cuisine achieve an amazing taste by adding coriander and hot pepper.
Fast and tasty:
Conclusion
We have presented to your attention several options for quick salted cabbage per day. It is simply impossible to tell about all the recipes in one article.It should be noted that not only black peppercorns, bay leaves and garlic can be added to quick salted cabbage. It turns out very tasty cabbage with apples, cranberries, lingonberries.
Each housewife has her own recipes, zest. After all, the kitchen for them is a real laboratory where you can experiment, create culinary masterpieces. We really hope that our recipes will be to your taste. And also that you will send us your options for pickling cabbage quickly.
