Winter cabbage salad with green tomatoes

Content

1 Basic rules for preparing salads
2 Salad options
3 Conclusion

It is not always possible for tomatoes to reach technical maturity on our plots. Most often, at the end of the warm season, unripe fruits remain on the bushes. It would be a pity to throw them away; after all, in the summer we had to put in a lot of work. Fortunately, there are many interesting recipes in which green tomatoes are the main ingredients. It turns out tasty and healthy.

We suggest preparing a salad for the winter from cabbage and green tomatoes. In recipes, in addition to the main ingredients, you can use other vegetables, herbs and all kinds of spices, depending on the taste preferences of your family members. We will talk about the nuances of preparing a salad from green tomatoes and cabbage, and show a video filmed by housewives.

Basic rules for preparing salads

If you decide to use green tomatoes for making salads, then you need to observe some points:

For a snack you need to take fruits of fleshy varieties, otherwise instead of salad you will end up with porridge.
The fruits should be firm, without rot or cracks.
Before preparing salads, green tomatoes need to be soaked. The fact is that they contain a poison harmful to humans - solanine. To get rid of it, you can soak the fruits in cold water for 2-3 hours or with salt water for an hour, adding 2 tablespoons of salt per liter of water. Then the tomatoes need to be washed with clean water.
It is not necessary to take only green tomatoes; brown ones are also suitable for cabbage salad.
All vegetables used in the salad must be thoroughly washed and peeled, as required by the recipe.

Attention! Cook the salad strictly according to the time, otherwise the tomatoes will boil.

Salad options

As we have already said, there are many salad recipes that use cabbage and green tomatoes. After all, every housewife is a real experimenter in her kitchen. As a rule, they try to share their “inventions” with family and friends. We suggest trying several options and choosing the one that is the most delicious.

Hunter's Salad

It is not known why the appetizer received such a name, because the recipe uses products quite familiar to Russians and nothing related to hunting.

We will need:

1 kg of green or brown tomatoes;
1 kg cabbage;
2 pods of hot pepper;
10 black peppercorns;
7 peas of allspice;
7 bay leaves;
2 onions;
250 ml apple cider vinegar;
head of garlic;
1 tbsp. l. vinegar essence;
90 grams of sugar;
60 grams of salt.

Important! Iodized salt is not suitable for salad as this additive will be felt during consumption.

Cooking features:

Cut the washed tomatoes into medium-sized slices, and the onion into half rings. Cut off the tail of the hot pepper. If you want the salad to be very spicy, you can leave the seeds. We also cut the peppers into rings. Shred the cabbage into strips.
Place the vegetables in an enamel container, press down with a small weight and leave for 12 hours.

It is not recommended to use aluminum cookware, since the element comes into contact with food, and this is harmful to health.
The juice released from the vegetables must be drained.Then you need to sugar and salt, add allspice and black peppercorns, bay leaves. Place the container on the stove over low heat and wait for the mixture to boil. Cook for no more than 10 minutes.
Then add apple cider vinegar and garlic. After 2 minutes, distribute the cabbage salad with green tomatoes into jars and immediately roll up. Glass jars and lids should be washed in hot water and soda, rinsed and heated over steam for at least 10-15 minutes.

Green tomato salad is a great addition to any meal.

Vitamin rainbow

We are accustomed to the fact that a rainbow appears in the sky after rain. But this phenomenon can also happen on your table if you prepare a delicious salad with vitamins, where the main ingredients are cabbage and green tomatoes. But the added vegetables will give the appetizer not only a special taste, but also multicolor. Let's give ourselves and our family some pleasure and prepare a Vitamin Rainbow.

Despite the fact that there are many products in the list of ingredients, they are all quite accessible to any Russian:

We need:

cabbage – 2 kg;
small green tomatoes - 2 kg;
carrots – 1 kg;
5 heads of garlic;
red or orange sweet bell pepper – 1 kg;
dill and coriander seeds - 4 teaspoons each;
clove buds - 10 pieces;
allspice and black pepper – 10 peas each;
bay leaf – 8 leaves;
vinegar essence - 4 tablespoons;
vegetable oil – 8 large spoons;
salt – 180 grams;
granulated sugar – 120 grams.

Attention! Take refined, unflavored vegetable oil, and use salt without additives, intended for canning.

How to cook:

Cut the peeled cabbage into checkers and add 2 tablespoons of salt.Grind it to release the juice, add the weight and put it in the refrigerator for a day.
Fill the cabbage with clean water, rinse and drain in a colander.
We wash all the vegetables, then cut the washed and peeled green tomatoes into medium slices.
Remove the husks from the garlic and cut the cloves into two parts.
After peeling, cut the carrots into cubes 0.5 by 3 cm.
Cut off the tails of sweet peppers, shake out the seeds and remove the partitions. We cut them in the same way as carrots.
Add chopped vegetables to cabbage. Mix carefully so as not to disturb the integrity of the green tomato slices.
Place bay leaves and spices in sterile jars, then vegetables.
When the jars are filled, let's make the marinade. Boil 4 liters of water, add sugar, salt, boil again, then add vinegar essence.
Immediately pour the marinade into the jars, and from above to the very neck - vegetable oil.
We roll up the jars with cabbage and green tomatoes, turn them upside down and wrap them in a towel. Leave in this position until the contents of the jars have cooled.

Cabbage salad with green tomatoes is stored perfectly even on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cabinet.

Attention! The appetizer according to this recipe is not served immediately; it is ready only after 1.5-2 months.

Option with sterilization

To prepare a delicious snack, we need to stock up on:

green tomatoes – 1 kg;
white cabbage – 1 kg;
onion - 2 heads;
sweet bell peppers – 2 pieces;
granulated sugar - 3.5 level tablespoons;
salt – 30 grams;
table vinegar 2 tablespoons;
black pepper - 6 peas each.

Cutting and initial preparation for preparing the salad are similar to the previous option.After 12 hours, drain the juice, add all the other ingredients indicated in the recipe and cook after boiling for 10 minutes.

Place in prepared jars and place to sterilize in boiling water. Roll up and put in a cool place for storage.

Conclusion

Green tomato and cabbage salad can be served as a regular appetizer. But if you show your imagination, add fresh cucumbers, green onions, chopped parsley or dill to it, you will get an amazingly tasty and healthy dish that will remind you of summer. You can serve the salad with meat, fish, and poultry. But even if there are ordinary boiled potatoes on the table, then an appetizer of cabbage and tomatoes will come in handy. Bon appetit everyone!