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As a rule, cabbage is fermented, salted and pickled for the winter. There are recipes in which apples, lingonberries, cranberries, sweet Bulgarian and hot peppers, and beets are used as additional ingredients. All these components enhance the beneficial properties of cabbage.
Today we will tell you how it turns out salted cabbage with beets in pieces. Various recipes will be offered to your attention, including the traditional grandmother's way, salting in Georgian and much more. There is nothing difficult in preparing harvesting vegetables for the winter, but useful tips will never hurt.
Tips: how to deliciously pickle cabbage
- For salting cabbage in chunks with beets, you need to use glass, ceramic or enamel containers without chips or cracks. You can also use food grade plastic containers. But it is better not even to touch the aluminum dishes. During oxidation, alkalis come into contact with aluminum and spoil not only the appearance of the cabbage, but also its taste.
- Before pickling cabbage, process the countertop, dishes for folding vegetables, a container for pickling, a plank and a shredder with hot salted solution (one tablespoon per liter of water). Many housewives wipe the pot or jar in which the pelust with beets will be salted with vodka or apple cider vinegar.
- If you decide to pickle cabbage with beets, do not use iodized salt. The iodine contained in it makes vegetables soft. In addition, the flavor of the additive alters the flavor of the beets and cabbage. Coarse rock salt is considered the best option.
- Despite the fact that salting cabbage with beets provides for slicing, the air still needs to be released, pierced with a sharp stick or stirred.
- Salted cabbage with beets should be stored at a temperature not lower than -2 degrees. Freezing is undesirable, vegetables stop crunching, soften when thawed.
- For salting, choose heads of late varieties, with white leaves. Best suited Gift, Moscow winter, Stone head, Kolobok, Slava and others. As for the beets, they should be maroon in color without white streaks.
And the main trump card is a great mood.
Recipes to choose from
Raspberry cabbage attracts attention with its bright color, and the taste, in general, is awesome: crispy and aromatic. The proposed recipes contain not only the main ingredients, but also some seasonings. You can use any option for salting the pelust. Better yet, make a dash of cabbage and beetroot chunks for each recipe to choose the one your family will love.
Option one - grandmother's way
Here is a recipe for salting with beets, which our grandmothers used. All components are readily available for any housewife. We'll have to stock up:
- a fork of medium-sized white cabbage;
- 500 grams of beets and carrots;
- a tablespoon of vinegar:
- a tablespoon of refined vegetable oil;
- 60 grams of rock salt;
- 30 grams of granulated sugar;
- a few peas of black pepper;
- 2 or 3 bay leaves.
Salting features
Heads of cabbage, peeled from green leaves, first cut in half, and then each part into 4 more pieces. We will have 8 parts. Don't forget to remove the stump.
Cut the carrots into large strips.
Beetroot slices.
We put vegetables in a jar one by one: cabbage, carrots, beets. And so we fill the entire jar to the top.
Pour salt, granulated sugar, black peppercorns, bay leaves, vegetable oil into boiling water (one liter). Bring to a boil again and pour in the vinegar. While the brine is hot, pour in the cabbage with beets and carrots.
We put oppression on top. Grandma's pickled vegetables will be ready in eight hours. A tasty vegetable preparation is stored in the refrigerator, closed with a nylon or screw lid. Although she can't stand there for a long time - she quickly leaves.
Option two - spicy cabbage
Another interesting recipe for salting cabbage with beetroot chunks. For cooking, take:
- cabbage - 4 kg;
- beets - 3 pieces;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- garlic - 1 head;
- horseradish root - 1 or 2 pieces (it all depends on taste).
The brine (in two liters of water) will be prepared from the following ingredients:
- coarse salt - 3 heaped tablespoons;
- granulated sugar - half a glass;
- bay leaf - 4 pieces;
- allspice - 4 peas;
- black pepper - 10 peas.
Cooking procedure step by step
- Step one. According to this recipe, we start salting cabbage with beetroot pieces by making the marinade. Dissolve salt and sugar in boiling water, add clove buds, lavrushka and pepper. Bring to a boil again, boil for about 5 minutes. While we are working with vegetables, the brine will cool down.
- Step two - preparing the ingredients for salting. Cut the pellet into large pieces, as required by the recipe. Pass the garlic and horseradish through a meat grinder using a large wire rack. Cut the beets into cubes.
- Step three. We knead the dough, add garlic, horseradish, combine the components together. We put the resulting mixture in a container, shifting the layers with beets.
- Step four. Fill with chilled brine, cover with a dish, top with a jar of water. We put the container with salted cabbage in a warm place. We stir vegetables twice a day to release gas.
We determine the readiness of the salting by taste. If it is salty, then you can still keep it warm. And, in general, vegetables are salted after 3 days maximum. If you salted cabbage with pieces of beetroot, then you can put it in jars, fill it with brine to the top, and put them in any cool place.
Option three
As you can see, it is not necessary to chop the pellet into strips. According to this recipe, salting cabbage with beets involves cutting the pelust into large pieces. This appetizer is in perfect harmony when stewing with meat and fish. With pink cabbage, you can bake open pies, cook cabbage soup, borscht, cook vitamin salads.
We will need:
- cabbage - one tight forks of a kilogram for three;
- beets - 1 kg;
- 9% table vinegar - 1 tablespoon;
- vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- rock salt - 60 grams;
- sugar - 30 grams;
- black pepper - 3-4 peas;
- lavrushka - 2 leaves.
For brine preparation 1 liter of clean water.
Cut the peeled taut head of cabbage with white leaves into large pieces. We wash the beets, peel, rinse again and cut into small cubes. Pass the garlic through a press. We mix all the vegetables in a large bowl, we don't mumble too much. You can salt cabbage with beets in a saucepan or jar, as you like.
Pour one liter of water into a small saucepan, bring to a boil. Now the marinade needs to be salt, sugar, add spices, refined oil, vinegar and boil for five minutes. If you fill vegetables with spring water, then it is not necessary to boil it. Simply boil the seasonings in a little water, pour into the dough and add the spring water.
Cover the poured vegetable mass, put the load on top. If you salt the cabbage in pieces in a saucepan, then cover it with a plate. If in a jar, then lower the nylon cap into it.
We marinate vegetables for two days. Then we send for storage to the basement or refrigerator in glass jars under plastic lids.
This is how you can quickly and tasty salt cabbage with beetroot pieces:
Option four - in Georgian
Many Russians love savory pickles. We will tell you how to salt cabbage with beets in Georgian style. In this version, as in the previous recipes, cut the cabbage into pieces.
Prepare in advance:
- three kilograms of white cabbage:
- 1600 grams of maroon beets;
- two heads of garlic;
- three kilograms of hot red pepper;
- two bunches of stalked celery;
- 90 grams of non-iodized salt.
How to cook
Before salting cabbage with pieces of beetroot in Georgian style, first prepare a brine from two liters of water and salt specified in the recipe. Pour in chilled.
Cut the forks into pieces together with the stump. Beets - in small slices. Garlic - in slices. Cut hot peppers into rings.
Rinse the celery thoroughly in several waters, dry it on a towel. You don't need to cut it, we need whole branches. Put the vegetables in separate cups, as the Georgian recipe assumes a layered arrangement:
- cabbage;
- beet;
- cloves of garlic;
- sprigs of celery;
- hot pepper.
In this order, fill the container to the top. Beets should be the last in the jar.
The prepared vegetable mass, after pouring, is covered with a loose lid. Place in a dark, warm place. Try the brine after three days. If you think that there is not enough salt, add a little salt. After another couple of days, salted cabbage in Georgian pieces can be put into the refrigerator.
Conclusion
We talked about some recipes for salting cabbage with chunks with beets. Although there are a lot of options for salting. We hope that our readers will complement our small collection of recipes, as every housewife has little secrets and raisins. Successful harvests from cabbage (dumplings). We are waiting for your letters.
