Recipe for pickled apples and cabbage

Fruits, vegetables and berries have been soaked in Rus' for a long time. Most often they make soaked apples with cabbage. The process itself is a real culinary sacrament. To improve the taste, carrots, various spices and herbs were added to the cabbage. In the old days they believed that this dish had love spell properties.

There are many options for preservation, but we will tell you how to prepare soaked apples with cabbage using glass jars or enamel dishes. In addition, you will learn some secrets of soaking apples and the benefits of the finished product.

Which apples to choose

If you decide to pamper your family with delicious soaked apples and cabbage, you need to take care of choosing the right fruits. After all, not all apples are suitable for such preservation. Most often, autumn and winter varieties are used for soaking, such as Antonovka, Anis, Pepin, Pepin saffron, Golden, Titovka and others.

Unfortunately, when buying apples in a store, we do not know either the name or the ripening period of the fruit. That is why the choice is based on the following parameters:

1. Apples should be sweet and sour, with a pronounced aroma.
2. In addition, the fruits should be firm, not starchy, ripe, but not soft.
3. Immediately discard apples with damage, wormholes, hints of rot or defects.
4. You can use apples of any color; this does not spoil the taste of soaked apples, as long as they have some sourness.
5. Before soaking with cabbage, the apples are kept for 2 weeks in a cool, dark place.

Important Details

Purpose of urination apples with cabbage – obtain high-quality and tasty canned food while preserving the beneficial properties of the ingredients:

1. For this purpose salt and sugar are used. Thanks to these seasonings, the finished product becomes more than just tasty. The main thing is that when cabbage is soaked, pathogenic microorganisms do not develop, although the fermentation process is in full swing.
2. By adding currants, mint, savory or lovage, you can achieve a variety of taste and aroma characteristics for soaked apples and cabbage.
3. Bay leaves, allspice peas, mustard seeds, coriander or caraway seeds have the same effect. If you want a spicy snack, you can add horseradish root or cloves of garlic, wild garlic or hot pepper when soaking apples and cabbage.
4. And oak, cherry, blackcurrant or grape leaves will add crunch to the cabbage.
5. To make soaked apples even healthier, soaking is not complete without orange carrots.

What you need to prepare

Before you begin the process itself, you need to prepare:

1. As a rule, apples and cabbage are soaked in wooden tubs. But today other containers are preferred. For work, you can use ceramic, porcelain, enamel dishes (without cracks or chips) or glass jars. If we talk about jars, it is better to use five-liter containers, since apples are soaked in their entirety.Aluminum dishes cannot be used for soaked apples and cabbage, since this metal interacts with acids and alkalis, spoiling the taste and appearance of the product.
2. A wooden circle, plate or nylon lid (in jars) is placed on top of the cabbage. They should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the bowl for soaking apples. Before starting work, they are washed in salt water (a tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water) and doused with boiling water.
3. You also need to prepare gauze or cotton cloth to cover the dishes.
4. As oppression, you can use a granite stone or an ordinary jar filled with water. The stone must be washed in salt water and scalded.
5. The table, tools and basins for folding vegetables and apples are subjected to the same procedure.

Recipes for soaking apples

Unfortunately, there are not many housewives who prepare soaked apples with cabbage. Most often this happens because they consider it impossible to make a workpiece without a wooden tub. We will try to dissuade them and tell them how to prepare soaked apples with cabbage in any available container.

In the bank

In the first recipe for soaked apples, the amount of ingredients is minimal. Need to stock up:

• two kilograms of white cabbage;
• a kilogram of Antonovsky or other sweet and sour apples;
• 300 grams of carrots;
• 60 grams of salt;
• 30 grams of granulated sugar.

Cooking method step by step

Step one - preparing vegetables

1. We clean the white cabbage forks from the top leaves and damage, wash the carrots in cold water and remove the peel. We sort through the Antonov apples, remove those with damage and wash them. We use the products for urination after the water has drained from them.
2. After that, we start shredding. As for cabbage, each housewife can chop it in her own way: either into strips or small pieces. Grind the carrots on a large-mesh grater.
   
   
3. Mix cabbage and carrots with granulated sugar and salt on the table or in a wide basin, grind thoroughly until the juice is released.
   

Step two - the urinating process

The first layer is cabbage with carrots, then apples. We fill the voids tightly with vegetable composition. So we put the jar to the top in layers. The last layer is cabbage and carrots. Cover with a cabbage leaf, insert a nylon lid, press it down, and place a towel on top to prevent dust from getting in.

After a while, juice will be released. It should close the lid. From time to time you need to pierce the contents of the jar with something sharp and thin, for example, a knitting needle, so that the released gas evaporates.

Place the jar of aromatic apples soaked in cabbage in a cool place, don’t forget to pierce it. Readiness occurs in 14 days. Bon appetit everyone!

In a saucepan

We offer a recipe for soaked apples in a saucepan. The following ingredients will be required:

• cabbage – 4 kg;
• apples – 3 kg;
• carrots (medium size) 3 pieces;
• salt – 90 grams;
• sugar – 60 grams.

We will not describe the process of soaking apples in cabbage, since it is identical to the recipe already described. Just note that cabbage leaves are placed in the pan on the bottom and on top of the workpiece. We place a wooden circle or a large plate on the workpiece and press on it.

You can store a delicious winter snack of cabbage with pickled apples on the balcony or cellar.

An interesting way to soak apples in sauerkraut:

Note to housewives

The soaking of apples and cabbage is not associated with heat treatment; the entire process occurs naturally. Therefore, all useful substances are preserved in the preparation, especially vitamin C, which is so necessary in winter.

Cabbage with apples is rich not only in vitamin C, but also in many others. It contains a high content of micro- and macroelements, practically the periodic table. The calorie content of the product is low, so it can be included in your diet for weight loss.

In addition, soaked apples contain substances that bring great benefits:

1. A large amount of pectin, there is even more of it in the preparation than in fresh fruits.
2. During fermentation, lactic acid is formed, which is necessary for our body to suppress pathogenic bacteria in the intestines.
3. Organic acids help stimulate gastrointestinal secretion.

But despite the benefits, cabbage with soaked apples should be consumed with caution by people with high stomach acidity and intestinal ulcers.

Acute diseases of the liver and pancreas are also contraindications.

Recommended Posts

How to make pickled apples

Quick recipe for pickled cabbage with bell pepper

Recipe for pickled cabbage with beets and garlic

Recipe for cabbage marinated with beets and carrots

Georgian pickled cabbage: recipe

How to pickle kohlrabi cabbage

How to pickle red cabbage

Tomatoes marinated for the winter with cloves

Whole pickled beets for the winter