Pickled cabbage recipes for the winter in jars

Many housewives prepare pickled cabbage for the winter. The finished product is tasty, extremely useful, and, most importantly, is always at hand. It can be served with hot potatoes, meat or fish. A small amount of pickled vegetables will allow you to cook delicious cabbage soup or vinaigrette. If there is a pickled salad in the refrigerator, then even unexpected guests will always remain fed and satisfied. It is convenient to pickle cabbage in three-liter jars. Capacious glass containers can be found in every home. Unlike metal pans, they do not affect the taste characteristics of the product and fit perfectly on the refrigerator shelf. It is about how to pickle cabbage in a jar, and we will talk in the proposed article.

Good recipes for every housewife

There are so many recipes for pickled cabbage that it can be very, very difficult to choose the only one, the best cooking option, because it is often impossible to taste the finished culinary creation. We offer several proven recipes that have already earned the attention of many housewives. Among the descriptions below, there are both the simplest cooking options for beginner cooks, and very interesting recipes for real cooking professionals.

Cabbage “from childhood”

Surely many people remember how a grandmother in the village, in a cold hallway, had a whole tub filled with crispy and fragrant cabbage. It is such a natural salad “from childhood” that allows you to prepare the recipe below. It contains no vinegar, vegetable oil, or other outlandish ingredients. You will need only cabbage and carrots for cooking. The ratio of vegetable products may be different, but the appetizer will acquire a harmonious appearance and taste if 3 g of grated carrots are added to 300 kg of cabbage. To prepare the marinade, you need to add sugar and salt to 1 liter of water. Ingredients should be used in equal proportions, 2-2,5 tbsp. l.

Cabbage without heat treatment and vinegar turns out to be natural and very healthy, because it not only preserves the vitamins of fresh vegetables, but also new acids and nutrients appear during the fermentation of products. Pickled cabbage for the winter in jars is prepared very simply:

• The marinade needs to be boiled only with the addition of salt. After boiling, the liquid must be cooled.
• Heads of cabbage must be chopped, carrots cut into thin bars or grated on a coarse grater.
• Pack the vegetables into the jar without filling the jar completely.
• Pour cabbage with marinade and let stand for 2 days. At this time, you need to pierce the thickness of the vegetables with a thin object to the bottom of the jar.
• After 2 days of fermentation, the marinade must be drained and sugar added to it. After dissolving the sweet sand, the liquid must be poured into the jar again.
• After 10 hours, the salad will be ready. It needs to be refrigerated for storage.

It is this cabbage salad that is the most useful, since the process of its preparation is based on fermentation, as a result of which lactic acid is released, and the beneficial properties of the product are activated. Thanks to the marinade, there is no need to mash vegetables to get juice. This speeds up the cooking process and prevents the cabbage from becoming soft, slimy.   

A simple recipe for pickling cabbage with spices and vinegar

Vinegar is an excellent preservative and can enhance the taste of any dish. If no one in the family has contraindications to the use of this acid, then you can safely prepare a pickled salad according to the proposed recipe. It includes a classic set of products: 3 kg of cabbage, 2 carrots and 90 g of salt, preferably coarse. In addition, to prepare the marinade, you will need to use 140 g of sugar, 120 ml of 9% vinegar and spices. The proposed volume of vegetables will require 700-800 ml of water. Spices for salad, you can use the most affordable, for example, black peppercorns or allspice, bay leaves.

Pickled cabbage in jars is prepared in stages:

• Remove all damaged leaves from the head, cut out the stalk and chop the vegetable into thin strips, 5-6 mm thick.
• Shredded cabbage put in a large saucepan and sprinkle with salt, then knead and leave in the room for 1 hour.
• Boil the marinade with vinegar and sugar, with the addition of spices. After boiling, cool the marinade.
• Drain the resulting brine from the container, add chopped carrots.
• Mix vegetables and transfer to a jar. Pour cold marinade over them.
• Keep the cabbage under a nylon lid in the refrigerator for 1-2 days.

Pickled cabbage turns out to be very tasty, but before serving it is recommended to supplement it with fresh onions or green onions, season with vegetable oil.

Cabbage marinated with bell peppers and onions

The recipe below suggests combining several vegetables at once: cabbage, peppers, onions and carrots. The fresh ingredients in the recipe will be supplemented with vegetable oil, vinegar, sugar and salt. The exact recommendations for the amount of all ingredients used can be found in the detailed description:

• Cabbage in the amount of 3 kg should be chopped as desired in large or small pieces.
• 500 g of bell pepper cut and free from grains, stalks. Chop the vegetables in half rings.
• Peel 2 large onions and chop into half rings.
• 1 kg of carrots can be cut into circles or grated on a “Korean” grater.
• Mix chopped vegetables in a large bowl.
• Boil 1 liter of water. Add to water 1 tbsp. l. salt and 0,5 tbsp. Sahara. After the crystals of these ingredients have dissolved, add 400 ml of oil and an almost full glass (3/4) of 9% vinegar to the marinade.
• Tamp the vegetables tightly into liter jars and pour boiling marinade over them.
• After cooling, cover the jars with lids and refrigerate.

The proposed recipe for pickling cabbage for the winter in jars with the addition of vinegar and vegetable oil allows you to store the workpiece for a long time without any problems and enjoy the excellent taste of a healthy salad.

Spicy “Georgian” cabbage

Bright red cabbage looks beautiful, interesting and unusual on the festive table. And if its taste is also spicy, spicy, then such a dish will surely be in great demand among all the guests present, because there is no better snack than pickled vegetables. You can cook them quite quickly, since you don’t have to cut the cabbage finely, it’s enough to cut the heads of cabbage into quarters or small cubes.

In addition to 3 kg of cabbage, you will need one beetroot, 2 carrots, and a head of garlic to prepare a snack. You need to cook the marinade immediately in three liters of water. Add a few bay leaves and black peppercorns to the indicated volume of liquid. Sugar is included in the recipe in the amount of 1 tbsp., Salt in the amount of 8 tbsp. l. Instead of vinegar, you should use 50 ml of vinegar essence. If desired, spicy chilli peppers can also be added to the cabbage.

Even a novice hostess will cope with the preparation of snacks:

• Cut heads of cabbage into large or small squares (optional).
• Grate peeled beets and carrots.
• Peeled garlic can be cut into thin slices or finely chopped.
• Lay vegetables in jars in layers (so, the appetizer gets a beautiful appearance).
• Add sugar and spices to the salt solution. Boil the mixture for 3-5 minutes. Remove the container from the gas and add the essence.
• When the marinade cools down a bit, they need to fill containers with cabbage.
• Close the jars and put in the refrigerator.

With the indicated amount of vegetables, it will be possible to fill 2 three-liter jars at once. You only need to pickle cabbage for the winter for one day, after which a beautiful snack can be served on the table. Before serving, it is recommended to sprinkle the marinated salad with celery or green onions.

Cabbage marinated with honey

Almost all pickled cabbage recipes include sugar. This ingredient makes the taste of vegetables bright and rich. But you can also replace sugar with honey. This natural product, unlike sugar, will make the salad more fragrant, healthier and more beautiful.

For one recipe for winter harvesting, you will need a head of cabbage weighing 2,5 kg, 2 carrots and several bay leaves, allspice peas. Honey should be added to cabbage in the amount of 2 tbsp. l. Salt vegetables to taste, adding about 2-2,5 tbsp. l.

It is recommended to prepare winter salting as follows:

• Cut the heads of cabbage into thin “noodles”, grate the carrots. Mix the vegetables and mash them a little to get the juice.
• Fill three-liter jars with vegetables. Approximately in the middle of the container you need to put seasonings.
• In the center of the filled jar, you need to make a hole where to place honey and salt.
• Boil 1-1,5 liters of water, cool it a little.
• Fill the jars with cool boiled water so that the liquid completely covers the vegetables.
• Cover the jars with lids and leave for a day in the room.
• After a day, carbon dioxide must be removed from the cabbage. To do this, pierce the thickness of the vegetables with a thin knitting needle or skewer.
• After 3 days, the snack will be fully fermented and ready to eat. Store marinated salad in the refrigerator.

The proposed recipe for pickled cabbage allows you to cook an extremely healthy product with an interesting taste. The natural fermentation process endows the snack with lactic acid bacteria and beneficial substances. The pickled product in 3-liter jars is well stored and is able to complement any product on the table.

Marinating Chinese cabbage

Domestic hostesses traditionally pickle white cabbage, but after all, a delicious pickled product for the winter can also be prepared from Beijing cabbages. So, for every 1 kg of this vegetable you will need 6 tbsp. l. salt and 4 tbsp. l. Sahara. The recipe also includes 200 ml of vinegar, 1 liter of water and a few black peppercorns.

It is better to pickle Chinese cabbage in a liter jar. The process of preparing this dish for the winter is extremely simple:

• Divide the head of cabbage into leaves, tear off the uppermost green part from them. Cut the rest of the leaves into strips.
• You need to cook the marinade from water, salt, sugar and vinegar.
• Place the peppercorns in the bottom of the jar.
• Fill containers with cabbage and boiling marinade.
• Roll up jars or close them with an iron lid with a twist.
• Turn the jars upside down and cover with a warm pea coat, blanket.

Canned Beijing cabbage is tasty and fragrant. It will perfectly replace fresh vegetable salad on the table in the winter season.

Along with white and Beijing heads, you can pickle cauliflower for the winter in jars.

A detailed guide on how to pickle this type of cabbage is offered in the video:

Conclusion

Pickled cabbage is so tasty and fragrant that every time you open the refrigerator, you just want to eat a little of this sweet and sour and moderately salty snack. It is good with potatoes or a cutlet, in soup and even in a salad. Surprisingly, some housewives even prepare the Olivier salad, familiar to many, not with cucumbers, but with pickled cabbage. Such a wide range of uses makes pickled cabbage an indispensable product in every kitchen. And to cook it, you can choose one of the above recipes. After all, all the proposed tips and recommendations are time-tested and have already found their gourmets.