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Salted cabbage Almost all Russians love it. This vegetable is always on the table in the form of salads, stewed, in cabbage soup, borscht, and pies. White crispy cabbage It is not difficult to obtain if you follow the preparation technology.
Most often, this vegetable is fermented, that is, subjected to a fermentation process that takes at least a week. But you can salt the cabbage a day in advance, and that’s the beauty of the preparation.
Selecting and preparing cabbage
Pickling cabbage is not that difficult, but we need to get a tasty finished product. And for this you need to purchase high-quality vegetables for pickling: cabbage, carrots and additives that you like best: berries or fruits.
Let's start with the main vegetable in pickling, cabbage:
- you need to choose mid-ripening or late-ripening varieties;
- the heads of cabbage should not be frozen;
- the upper leaves of a mature fork are light green and hard;
- The head of cabbage is dense and should make a crunch when pressed.
Salt quickly and tasty - recipes
Ways to pickle cabbage a great variety, each of them has its own flavor. Salted cabbage can be obtained a day in advance, unlike pickling. We bring to your attention several interesting recipes containing various additional ingredients. For pickling you will need three-liter jars.
Preparing Ingredients
In each recipe we will not separately talk about ways to prepare vegetables for pickling. 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 the stalk of each fork. Cabbage is chopped in different ways. You can use straws or pieces, depending on the recipe. For chopping, use a knife, a shredder board, or a special knife with two blades, whichever is convenient for you.
- We wash the carrots in cold water, remove the peels, rinse again and lay them out on a napkin to dry. This vegetable is either ground on a grater or cut into small strips using a knife.
- If the recipe calls for black or allspice peas and bay leaves, they should be rinsed in cold water and dried before adding them to the pickling.
- If garlic is used in the recipe, then it is divided into cloves, the outer scales are peeled, washed and chopped in accordance with the recipe recommendations.
Recipe 1 – in brine without vinegar per day
Fill hot brine allows you to get salted cabbage quickly. Within a day, the pickling is ready. Not only white cabbage varieties are suitable for this recipe, but also red cabbage. According to the traditional method that our ancestors used, the vegetable is cut into pieces for pickling. When serving, you can add any greens or onions.As a rule, cabbage salads are seasoned with vegetable oil.
What you will need:
- head of cabbage - 1 piece;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- black or allspice – 5-6 peas;
- bay leaf – 3-5 leaves;
- water – 1 liter;
- salt (non-iodized) – 30 grams;
- granulated sugar – 15 grams.
Salting method
- Mix cabbage and carrots on the table or in a basin and mix well and knead.
- Place the first layer in a dry sterile jar, add pepper and bay leaf. We compact the mass. If your hand doesn't fit into the jar, you can use a puree masher. We fill the jar not to the very top, leave about 5 cm free, fill it with hot brine and pierce it to penetrate the brine to the very bottom.
- Add salt and granulated sugar to boiling water and mix well. Bring to a boil again and fill the jars.
There is no need to cover the jar. It is placed on a tray (juice in salting time rises to the top and can overflow) into a warm place. After 24 hours the sample can be taken. Store the jar in the refrigerator or basement.
Quick cabbage per day in cold brine:
Recipe 2 – with garlic per day
You can pickle cabbage with garlic. It turns out very tasty. There is no need to stock up on special ingredients.
We make do:
- 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; to prepare brine, it is not recommended to take tap water because it contains chlorine;
- table vinegar - 1 glass;
- vegetable oil - half a glass.
How to salt
To pickle cabbage a day in advance, use a jar or pan. Place white cabbage in layers in a container, then carrots and garlic. Fill the filled container with boiling brine.
Now we’ll tell you how to prepare the brine:
- Pour salt and sugar into boiling water and add vegetable oil.
- When the water boils again, remove from the stove and add table vinegar.
The cabbage will be pickled in the room for a day. Cabbage salted in this way 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 is required with traditional recipes. Just 60 minutes and you're done. And it turns out not only quickly, but also surprisingly tasty!
Stock up on these products:
- 2 kg forks;
- 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 finely 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 cleared of seeds and membranes and cut into thin strips.
Vegetables are alternately placed in the jar in layers: the first and 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 saucepan of water on the fire and bring to a boil. Salt and sugar it. If you think there is not enough salt, you can add to taste.But be careful not to oversalt! Then add the remaining ingredients except vinegar. We pour it in after removing the pan from the stove.
For filling we use boiling brine. When the jar of vegetables has cooled down, you can try. Fast and delicious cabbage is ready to eat not in a day, but in an hour.
But you understand that this cannot stop our housewives who always want to have such a wonderful preparation on hand. After all, it can be served with various greens and onions. And what a delicious vinaigrette it turns out - you'll lick your fingers.
Lovers 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 talk about all the recipes in one article. It should be noted that you can add not only black peppercorns, bay leaves and garlic to quick salted cabbage. Cabbage with apples, cranberries, and lingonberries turns out very tasty.
Each housewife has her own recipes and twists. After all, the kitchen is a real laboratory for them, where they can experiment and create culinary masterpieces. We really hope that you will like our recipes. And also that you send us your options for pickling cabbage quickly.
