Green tomato salad with cabbage

Not always in our areas, tomatoes can reach technical maturity. Most often, at the end of the warm season, unripe fruits remain on the bushes. It is a pity to throw them away, after all, a lot of work had to be done in the summer. Fortunately, there are many interesting recipes that use green tomatoes as the main ingredients. It turns out tasty and healthy.

We offer to prepare a salad for the winter of 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 making a salad of green tomatoes and cabbage, show a video shot by the housewives.

Basic rules for making salads

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

1. For a snack, you need to take the fruits of fleshy varieties, otherwise instead of a salad you get porridge.
2. The fruits should be firm, without rot and cracks.
3. 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 pour the fruit for 2-3 hours with cold water or salty water for an hour, adding 2 tablespoons of salt per liter of water. Then the tomatoes must be washed with clean water.
4. It is not necessary to take only green tomatoes, brown ones are also suitable for a salad with cabbage.
5. All vegetables used in the salad must be thoroughly washed and cleaned, as required by the recipe.

salad options

As we have said, there are a lot of salad recipes that use cabbage and green tomatoes. After all, every housewife in her kitchen is a real experimenter. As a rule, they try to share their “inventions” with relatives and friends. We offer to try several options and choose the one that will be the most delicious.

Salad Hunter

It is not known why the snack got such a name, because according to the recipe, products that are quite familiar to s and nothing related to hunting are used.

We will need:

• 1 kg of green or brown tomatoes;
• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 2 pods of hot pepper;
• 10 peas of black pepper;
• 7 peas of sweet pepper;
• 7 leaves of lavrushka;
• 2 onion heads;
• 250 ml apple cider vinegar;
• garlic head;
• 1 st. l. vinegar essence;
• 90 grams of sugar;
• 60 grams of salt.

Cooking features:

1. We cut the washed tomatoes into medium-sized slices, onions – into half rings. Cut off the tail of the hot pepper. Seeds, if you want the salad to be very spicy, you can leave. We also cut the peppers into rings. We shred the cabbage.
2. We shift the vegetables into an enameled container, press down with a small load and leave for 12 hours.

   

   It is not recommended to use aluminum cookware, as the element is in contact with food, and this is harmful to health.

3. The juice released from the vegetables must be drained. Then you need to sugar and salt, add allspice and black peppercorns, bay leaves. We rearrange the container on the tile on a slow fire and wait for the mass to boil. Cook no more than 10 minutes.
4. Then add apple cider vinegar and garlic. After 2 minutes, distribute the coleslaw with green tomatoes in jars and immediately roll up. Glass jars and lids should be washed in hot water with 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 used to the fact that the rainbow appears in the sky after the rain. But such a phenomenon can also be on your table if you prepare a delicious vitamin salad, 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 bring pleasure to ourselves and our relatives and prepare a Vitamin rainbow.

Despite the fact that there are many products on the list of ingredients, they are all quite affordable for any :

We need:

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

How to cook:

1. Cut the peeled cabbage into checkers and add 2 tablespoons of salt. We grind it so that the juice stands out, put the load and put it in the refrigerator for a day.
2. Pour the cabbage with clean water, rinse and recline in a colander.
3. We wash all the vegetables, then cut the washed and peeled green tomatoes into medium slices.
4. Remove the husk from the garlic and cut the cloves into two parts.
5. After peeling, cut the carrots into 0 by 5 cm cubes.
6. We cut off the tails of sweet pepper, shake out the seeds and remove the partitions. We cut them in the same way as carrots.
7. Add chopped vegetables to cabbage. Mix gently so as not to violate the integrity of the slices of green tomatoes.

   

8. In sterile jars we put lavrushka and spices, then vegetables.
9. When the jars are full, let’s take care of the marinade. Boil 4 liters of water, sugar, salt, boil again, then add vinegar essence.
10. Immediately pour the marinade into jars, and from top to the very neck – vegetable oil.
11. 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.

Sterilization option

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

• green tomatoes – 1 kg;
• white cabbage – 1 kg;
• turnip – 2 heads;
• sweet bell peppers – 2 pieces;
• granulated sugar – 3,5 tablespoons without a slide;
• salt – 30 grams;
• table vinegar 2 tablespoons;
• black pepper – 6 peas each.

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

Put in prepared jars and set to sterilize in boiling water. Roll up and store in a cool place.

Conclusion

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