Fresh pickled cabbage: recipe

Experienced housewives know that there is never a lot of cabbage in the kitchen, because a fresh vegetable can be used in the preparation of soups, salads, hodgepodge and even pies. And if fresh cabbage is still bored, then you can always take care of its salting or pickling. You need to salt or sour cabbage for a long time. Usually, the entire process of harvesting a vegetable takes about 4 days. You can cook a pickled snack much faster. In just a few hours, a fresh vegetable turns into a fragrant, tasty and very healthy salad. Such an appetizer will perfectly complement dishes from potatoes, cereals, meat, fish or poultry. Pickled vegetables can be eaten not only in season, but also harvested for future use. You can learn how to properly pickle fresh cabbage from the sections below in the article.

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The secret to making pickled cabbage is to use a marinade or brine. Most often, it includes a standard set of ingredients: salt, spices, sugar and vinegar. It is the brine that makes the cabbage salad tasty and fragrant. In each recipe, the amount of ingredients in the brine is different, making the appetizer more sweet, salty or sour. Seasonings and spices can also be added by the cook, based on personal preferences. You can also use bay leaves, various types of pepper, cloves and even turmeric.

Pickled cabbage always comes out crispy and fresh, while sauerkraut can be slimy and too bland. This is due to the fact that pickling does not occur in the natural vegetable juice obtained by grinding 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 go sour.
• Always crispy and fragrant 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.

Classic recipe for beginners and professionals

The classic recipe allows you to cook very tasty and fragrant cabbage from a limited number of ingredients with the least amount of time. It is convenient to marinate the salad in a large enameled pan or glass jar. For example, in order to fill one jar with a volume of 3 liters, you need to use 1 head of medium size. The original bright color and additional sweetness will give the salad carrots, the amount of which should ideally be 10% of the volume of cabbage. The spicy taste and aroma of the salad will be given by garlic, black peppercorns and bay leaf. 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 a fresh cabbage salad as follows:

• Cut cabbage into strips.
• Grate carrots or cut into thin circles.
• Mix chopped vegetables.
• At the bottom of a dry and clean jar, put spices and lightly chopped garlic.
• 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, salt. Boil the marinade for 8-10 minutes.
• Fill jars to the top with hot marinade.
• Add vinegar to the pickled cabbage and close the container with an airtight lid.
• Wrap the jars in a warm blanket and leave them to cool completely.

Once the jar of pickled cabbage has cooled, you can open it and serve the finished product on the table. If you decide to leave the salad for the future, then you should take care of storing it in a cool place.

Pickled cabbage with oil

Vegetable oil is an excellent preservative that allows you to preserve any product for a long time, including fresh pickled cabbage. At the same time, the oil makes the vegetables more tender and appetizing. It is necessary to add the vegetable component directly to the brine, which will allow it to be evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of pickled vegetables.

There are quite a few recipes for pickled cabbage with the addition of vegetable oil. Most of them differ only in the amount of one or another ingredient, whether it be 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 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 the amount 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 a pickled salad by peeling and chopping vegetables: grate carrots, cut cabbage into pieces. Mix pre-chopped garlic with carrots. The pickling container must be filled in layers, alternating cabbage with a mixture of carrots and garlic.

In boiling water, you need to prepare the marinade by adding sugar, salt, vinegar, oil. Also, laurel leaves should be included in the marinade, since during heat treatment they exude the most pleasant spicy aroma. It is necessary to boil the marinade literally 2-3 minutes. Ready, hot brine should be poured over the vegetables and put oppression on top of them. After 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-headed “beauty” you need to add 3 large onions. Also, in the preparation of pickled delicacy, you will need bay leaves and black peppercorns. The brine must be prepared on the basis of 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 cut into small pieces. This is especially true of the bow: its half rings should be translucent. Chopped vegetables should be tightly packed in a glass jar or pan, at the bottom of which spices (pepper and laurel) are already deliberately placed.

Add vinegar, salt and sugar to boiling water. After 2-3 minutes, the marinade will be ready. They need to pour vegetables and insist them for 7-10 hours. During this time, the cabbage will become surprisingly tasty and will be able to complement any other dish on the table.

So, to get an unobtrusive orange tint for 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 on the table always looks appetizing and interesting.

The composition of the “pink” salad must include only one medium-sized beet and carrot, as well as a few cloves of garlic. Such a set of simple vegetable products can complement 3 kg of cabbage. To prepare the marinade, you need 1 tbsp. sugar and the same amount of 6% vinegar, half a glass of oil and 2 tbsp. l. salt. Laurel leaves and black peppercorns can be added to the marinade to taste.

Preparing a pickled snack will not take much time, if only because the cabbage does not need to be chopped finely. It is enough to cut it into quarters or squares. Cut beets and carrots into slices, slices. In the container you need to put vegetables in rows, sprinkling pieces of head 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 must be slightly cooled so as not to “kill” the nutrients in fresh vegetables. After pouring, put oppression on top of the vegetables. After just 1 day, the salad will be ready to serve.

Cabbage with greens and horseradish

It is no secret that seasonings and spices give a unique taste to a pickled salad. So, the recipe proposed below combines the most fragrant and healthy ingredients. For 2 kg of ordinary cabbage, you need to use 30 g of horseradish (root), 20 g of garlic and 5 g of red hot ground 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 greens 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 1 g of sugar and salt to 20 liter of water, as well as 1 tbsp. vinegar 6%.

You need to pickle cabbage as follows:

• Chop cabbage and garlic into thin slices.
• Chop the horseradish with a meat grinder.
• Boil the marinade with sugar and salt. After cooling, pour vinegar into the liquid.
• Put half of 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 vegetables with cooled brine and leave the pickled snack for a day.

Instant pickled cabbage with herbs and horseradish always turns out very fragrant and tasty. However, it will not work to store it all winter: in just a month, it will begin to lose its qualities.

Cabbage to everyone’s surprise

You should definitely try cabbage with bell pepper, honey and lemon, because its taste is very bright and literally like nothing else. Cooking such cabbage will not be particularly difficult, which means that even a novice housewife will be able to surprise her loved ones with such a pickled salad.

To prepare pickled cabbage, you will need 3 kg of a white vegetable, 1 kg of Bulgarian sweet 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 a snack like this:

• Finely chop the heads of cabbage and mix with bell pepper slices.
• Unpeeled lemon cut into rings.
• Fill clean jars with a mixture of crushed ingredients.
• Boil the marinade and fill jars with hot liquid.
• Close the containers and cool hermetically first at room conditions, and then in the refrigerator chamber.

Cabbage with lemon and honey keeps 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, fragrant spices are part of this or that recipe. Another fundamentally excellent option for cooking cabbage with tomatoes is shown in the video:

Thus, we offered a variety of options for preparing a pickled snack, but the decision to choose one or another recipe always remains with the culinary specialist.