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Experienced housewives know that you can never have too much cabbage in the kitchen, because fresh vegetables can be used in making soups, salads, hodgepodge and even pies. And if you still get bored with fresh cabbage, then you can always take care of salting or marinating it. You need to salt or ferment cabbage for quite a long time. Usually the entire process of preparing vegetables takes about 4 days. You can prepare a marinated appetizer much faster. In just a few hours, a fresh vegetable turns into a fragrant, tasty and very healthy salad. This appetizer will perfectly complement dishes made from potatoes, cereals, meat, fish or poultry. Pickled vegetables can be eaten not only in season, but also stored for future use. You can learn how to properly pickle fresh cabbage from the sections later in the article.
The best recipes for the housewife to note
The secret to making pickled cabbage is to use a marinade or brine. Most often, it contains a standard set of ingredients: salt, spices, sugar and vinegar. It is the brine that makes cabbage salad tasty and aromatic. In each recipe, the amount of ingredients in the brine is different, which makes the snack more sweet, salty or sour.The cook can also add seasonings and spices based on personal preferences. You can use bay leaves, various types of peppers, cloves and even turmeric.
Pickled cabbage It always comes out crispy and fresh, whereas the pickled version of the salad can be slimy and too soft. This is explained by the fact that pickling does not take place in the natural juice of the vegetable, obtained by grinding the cabbage, but in an artificially created brine.
Thus, the advantages of pickled cabbage are:
- Simplicity, high speed of preparation.
- The ability to adjust the taste characteristics of the salad by adding one or another ingredient to the brine.
- There is no chance that the salad will turn sour.
- Always crispy and flavorful cabbage.
Having decided to make a pickled salad for your family, you can choose a ready-made recipe and, if necessary, make small adjustments to its composition. Experienced housewives can show off their skills and come up with their own unique recipe on their own. We will try to offer several proven options for making this dish.
A classic recipe for beginners and professionals
The classic recipe allows you to prepare very tasty and aromatic cabbage from a limited amount of ingredients with the least amount of time. It is convenient to marinate the salad in a large enamel pan or glass jar. For example, in order to fill one 3 liter jar, you need to use 1 medium-sized head of cabbage. Carrots will give the salad an original bright color and additional sweetness, the amount of which should ideally be 10% of the volume of cabbage.Garlic, black peppercorns and bay leaves will give the salad a spicy taste and aroma. The taste of traditional, classic cabbage will be preserved and emphasized by a brine prepared from 1 liter of water, 2 tbsp. l. salt, 1 tbsp. l. Sahara. Vinegar is included in the brine in an amount of only 1 tsp.
It is recommended to prepare fresh cabbage salad as follows:
- Cut the cabbage into strips.
- Grate the carrots or cut into thin slices.
- Mix chopped vegetables.
- Place spices and lightly chopped garlic at the bottom of a dry and clean jar.
- Fill the main volume of the jar with a tightly packed mixture of carrots and cabbage.
- Pour water into a saucepan, boil it and add sugar and salt. Boil the marinade for 8-10 minutes.
- Fill the jars to the top with hot marinade.
- Add vinegar to the pickled cabbage and close the containers with an airtight lid.
- Wrap the jars in a warm blanket and leave them until they cool completely.
As soon as the jar of pickled cabbage has cooled, you can open it and serve the finished product on the table. If you decide to save the salad for future use, you should take care to store it in a cool place.
Pickled cabbage with butter
Vegetable oil is an excellent preservative that allows you to preserve any product, including fresh pickled cabbage, for a long time. At the same time, the oil makes the vegetables more tender and appetizing. It is necessary to add the herbal component directly to the brine, which will allow it to be evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of pickled vegetables.
Pickled cabbage recipes with the addition of vegetable oil quite a lot. Most of them differ only in the amount of one or another ingredient, be it salt or sugar.We will try to describe in detail only one universal cooking option.
The proposed recipe is designed for 2 kg of cabbage. In addition to the main vegetable, the recipe will contain carrots and a couple of cloves of garlic. To prepare the brine you will need 1 liter of water, 200 ml of vinegar and the same amount of oil. Sugar and salt should be added to the marinade in quantities of 3 and 8 tbsp. l. respectively. A characteristic spicy aroma can be obtained with the help of 5 bay leaves.
You need to start preparing the pickled salad by cleaning and chopping the vegetables: grate the carrots, cut the cabbage into pieces. Mix pre-chopped garlic with carrots. The marinating container should be filled in layers, alternating cabbage with a mixture of carrots and garlic.
You need to prepare the marinade in boiling water by adding sugar, salt, vinegar, and oil. Also, bay leaves should be included in the marinade, since during heat treatment they emit the most pleasant spicy aroma. You need to boil the marinade for literally 2-3 minutes. You need to pour the prepared, hot brine over the vegetables and place pressure on top of them. After just a couple of hours, the marinade will cool down, and the cabbage itself will acquire a very rich, pleasant taste and aroma.
Cabbage with onions
You can prepare a healthy and tasty salad from cabbage and onions. So, for 2 kg of white cabbage “beauty” you need to add 3 large onions. You will also need laurel leaves and black peppercorns to prepare the pickled delicacy. The brine must be prepared using 1 liter of water, salt, sugar and 1 incomplete glass of 6% vinegar. Sweet sand and salt can be added to taste, but the recipe recommends using 2 and 1 tbsp. l. these ingredients respectively.
For pickling, vegetables need to be chopped finely.This is especially true for onions: their half rings should be translucent. Shredded vegetables should be placed tightly in a glass jar or pan, at the bottom of which spices (pepper and bay) are already placed.
Add vinegar, salt and sugar to boiling water. In 2-3 minutes the marinade will be ready. They need to pour over the vegetables and let them sit for 7-10 hours. During this time, cabbage will become surprisingly tasty and can complement any other dish on the table.
So, to obtain an unobtrusive orange tint per 2 kg of cabbage you need to add 1 tsp. turmeric without a slide.
Cabbage with beets
If the orange color of the salad can be obtained by adding turmeric, then the pink tint is evidence of the presence of beets. Pink pickled cabbage always looks appetizing and interesting on the table.
The “pink” salad must include only one beetroot and medium-sized carrots, as well as a few cloves of garlic. This set of simple vegetable products can complement 3 kg of cabbage. To prepare the marinade you will need 1 tbsp. sugar and the same amount of 6% vinegar, half a glass of oil and 2 tbsp. l. salt. Bay leaves and black peppercorns can be added to the marinade to taste.
Preparing the pickled appetizer will not take much time, if only because the cabbage does not need to be finely chopped. It is enough to cut it into quarters or squares. Cut beets and carrots into slices and slices. You need to put vegetables in rows in a container, sprinkling pieces of cabbage with carrots and beets.
You need to cook the marinade with the addition of sugar, salt, oil and vinegar. Garlic and spices should also be added to the hot marinade.Before pouring, the brine needs to be cooled slightly so as not to “kill” the beneficial substances in fresh vegetables. After pouring, place pressure on top of the vegetables. After just 1 day, the salad will be ready to serve.
Cabbage with herbs and horseradish
It's no secret that seasonings and spices give pickled salad a unique taste. So, the recipe proposed below combines the most aromatic and healthy ingredients. For 2 kg of regular cabbage you need to use 30 g of horseradish (root), 20 g of garlic and 5 g of ground red hot pepper. Herbs and greens are the “calling card” of the recipe. It is recommended to use celery, parsley, tarragon and even currant leaves. Each type of greenery should be used in an amount of 5-10 g. To complement the flavor composition, it would be useful to use dill seed. You need to prepare the marinade in the usual way, by adding 20 g of sugar and salt to 1 liter of water, as well as 1 tbsp. vinegar 6%.
You need to marinate the cabbage as follows:
- Chop the cabbage and garlic into thin slices.
- Grind the horseradish in a meat grinder.
- Cook the marinade with sugar and salt. After cooling, pour vinegar into the liquid.
- Place half the greens and dill seeds on the bottom of the container.
- Fill the main volume of the container with a mixture of cabbage and horseradish. Cover it with another layer of greens and seeds on top.
- Pour the cooled brine over the vegetables and leave the marinated appetizer for a day.
Instant marinated cabbage with herbs and horseradish always turns out very aromatic and tasty. However, it will not be possible to store it all winter: literally in a month it will begin to lose its qualities.
Cabbage surprises everyone
You should definitely try cabbage with bell pepper, honey and lemon, because its taste is very bright and literally unlike anything else.Preparing such cabbage will not be particularly difficult, which means that even a novice housewife can surprise her loved ones with such a pickled salad.
To prepare pickled cabbage, you will need 3 kg of white cabbage, 1 kg of bell peppers and 1 medium-sized lemon. The marinade for the dish will consist of 1 liter of water, 2 tsp. salt and half a glass of natural honey.
You need to prepare the snack like this:
- Finely chop the heads of cabbage and mix with bell pepper slices.
- Cut the unpeeled lemon into rings.
- Fill clean jars with a mixture of crushed ingredients.
- Boil the marinade and fill the jars with hot liquid.
- Close the containers tightly and cool first at room conditions and then in the refrigerator.
Cabbage with lemon and honey stores well and can be used as a canned winter preparation.
Conclusion
The recipes described above can satisfy the needs of literally every family. Spicy herbs, sweet honey, aromatic spices are included in this or that recipe. Another fundamentally excellent option for preparing cabbage with tomatoes is shown in the video:
Thus, we have offered a variety of options for preparing marinated snacks, but the decision to choose one or another recipe always remains with the cook.
