How to pickle cabbage quickly and tasty in a day

Almost all s love salted cabbage. This vegetable is always on the table in the form of salads, stewed, in cabbage soup, borscht, pies. White crispy cabbage is easy to get if you follow the cooking technology.

Most often, this vegetable is sour, that is, it is subjected to a fermentation process that takes at least a week. But you can salt the cabbage in a day, this is the beauty of the workpiece.

Choosing and preparing cabbage

Salting cabbage is not so difficult, but we need to get a delicious finished product. And for this you need to purchase high-quality vegetables for pickling: cabbage, carrots and additives that you like more: berries or fruits.

Let’s start with the main vegetable in pickles, cabbage:

• you need to choose mid-ripening or late-ripening varieties;
• heads of cabbage should not be frozen;
• the upper leaves of a mature fork are light green, hard;
• the head of cabbage is dense, when pressed, it should make a crunch.

Salt quickly and tasty – recipes

There are a lot of ways to pickle cabbage, each of them has its own zest. Salted cabbage can be obtained in a day, unlike sauerkraut. We bring to your attention several interesting recipes containing various additional ingredients. For salting, three-liter jars are required.

Preparation of ingredients

We will not separately talk about how to prepare vegetables for pickling in each recipe. We will dwell on this issue separately, since they are still the same.

1. Remove the top leaves from the forks, as they may have dust and slight damage from insects. Cut out a stump from each fork. Shred cabbage in different ways. Can be straws or pieces, depending on the recipe. For grinding, use a knife, a shredder board or a special knife with two blades, as it suits you.

   

2. We wash the carrots in cold water, remove the peel, rinse again and lay out on a napkin to dry. This vegetable is crushed either on a grater, or cut into small strips with a knife.

   

3. If the recipe provides for black or allspice peas, bay leaf, then they must be washed in cold water and dried before adding to the pickle.

   

4. If garlic is used in the recipe, then it is divided into cloves, the integumentary scales are cleaned, washed and chopped in accordance with the recommendations of the recipe.

Recipe 1 – in brine without vinegar per day

Filling with hot brine allows you to get salted cabbage quickly. In a day, the salting is ready. Not only white cabbage varieties are suitable for this recipe, but also red cabbage. According to the traditional method used by our ancestors, they cut the vegetable for pickling into pieces. When serving, you can add any greens, onions. As a rule, salads with cabbage are seasoned with vegetable oil.

What will be required:

• head of cabbage – 1 piece;
• carrots – 1 piece;
• black or allspice – 5-6 peas;
• lavrushka – 3-5 leaves;
• water – 1 liter;
• salt (not iodized) – 30 grams;
• granulated sugar – 15 grams.

  

Salting method

1. We mix cabbage with carrots on the table or in a basin and mix well and crush.

   

2. We spread the first layer in a dry sterile jar, add pepper and bay leaf. We tamp down the mass. If your hand doesn’t fit in the jar, you can use a 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.
3. Pour salt and granulated sugar into boiling water, mix well. Bring to a boil again and fill the jars.

The bank does not need to be covered. It is placed on a pallet (the juice rises during salting and can overflow over the edge) in a warm place. You can take a sample after 24 hours. 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. You don’t have to stock up on special ingredients.

We manage:

• a kilogram of white cabbage;
• one carrot;
• 3 or 4 garlic cloves;
• one liter of water;
• half a glass of granulated sugar;
• two tablespoons of salt;
• a glass of table vinegar;
• water – 1 liter, it is not recommended to take tap water to prepare the brine, since it contains chlorine;
• table vinegar – 1 cup;
• vegetable oil – half a glass.

How to salt

For salting cabbage in a day, use a jar or pan. White cabbage is laid in layers in a container, then carrots and garlic. Pour the filled dish with boiling brine.

How to prepare the brine, now we will tell:

1. Pour salt and sugar into boiling water, pour vegetable oil.
2. When the water boils again, remove from the stove, add table vinegar.

Cabbage will be salted in the room for a day. Salted in this way, the cabbage 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. Indeed, situations often occur when salted cabbage is needed quickly, as the people say, yesterday.

You do not have to wait several days, as is required by 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:

• forks for 2 kg;
• carrots – 2 pieces;
• sweet bell pepper – 1 or 2 pieces;
• garlic – 5 or 6 cloves (depending on taste).

Cooking features

We chop the head of cabbage as small as possible, rub the carrots on a Korean grater. To make the dish look festive, you can cut the carrots into thin circles. Bulgarian pepper is cleaned of seeds and partitions and cut into thin strips.

Vegetables are alternately laid out in a 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).

Put a pot of water on the fire and bring to a boil. Salt and sugar it. If it seems to you that salt is not enough, you can add to taste. But watch out, don’t overdo it! Then add the rest of the ingredients, except for the vinegar. Pour it in after removing the pan from the stove.

We use boiling brine for pouring. When the jar of vegetables has cooled, 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 hostesses who want to always have such a wonderful preparation at hand. After all, it can be served on the table with various herbs, onions. And what a delicious vinaigrette you get – you will lick your fingers.

Oriental cuisine lovers achieve amazing taste by adding coriander and hot pepper.

Fast and delicious:

Conclusion

We 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 not only black peppercorns, bay leaves and garlic can be added to quick salted cabbage. It turns out very tasty cabbage with apples, cranberries, lingonberries.

Each hostess has her own recipes, raisins. After all, the kitchen is a real laboratory for them, where you can experiment, create culinary masterpieces. We really hope you enjoy our recipes. And also the fact that you will send us your options for pickling cabbage quickly.