Autumn is coming, and, therefore, the hot time for making all kinds of supplies for the winter, which can help in our difficult time to fill the menu of your family with tasty and healthy dishes. And in winter and early spring, when there is a particularly acute shortage of fresh or spicy vitamin snacks, pickled cabbage with apples will come in handy.
In addition to the simplicity of making this dish, its exceptional budget should also be taken into account, although it can become a real table decoration. Indeed, in autumn, in season, cabbage is one of the cheapest and at the same time vitamin vegetables. And apples, if a fruitful year is already issued, are found everywhere and are often distributed just like that, so long as they do not disappear and are used with benefit. Not to mention those cases when cabbage and apples grow on your site. Therefore, pickled cabbage, harvested with apples for the winter, will not cause practically any material costs, and the benefits can be simply extraordinary.
Cabbage with apples – the most delicious recipe
Of course, when sauerkraut, apples are perhaps the most common addition after carrots. But fermented preparations are not stored for a very long time and require special storage conditions that are not always found in an ordinary apartment.
And at any time you can open it, put it on the table and enjoy the spicy taste of this easy-to-make snack with a slight spiciness.
So the first thing to do is prep your vegetables. White cabbage, if you want to use it for rolling for the winter, you must choose dense, with light leaves. Of course, it is best to use mid-season or late varieties, but this is only possible if you grow cabbage in your own garden. In other cases, you will have to rely on the decency of sellers. However, in the midst of autumn, after the first frosts, varieties of cabbage suitable for pickling are usually sold.
For 2 kg of cabbage, you will need to find about two more medium-sized carrots and 5-6 sweet and sour apples.
It is better to cut the cabbage into narrow long strips, although if you like rectangles more, then this shredding method is not excluded, it is only important that they are small.
Carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater, and apples are freed from seeds. Do not remove the skin, because it contains most of the nutrients. It is best to cut apples into thin slices.
All chopped vegetables are placed in a large container and mixed well. 60 g of salt, 200 g of sugar, one teaspoon of dill seeds and 10 pieces of black and allspice peas are added to them.
Mix everything well again, close the lid and set aside for a few hours. During this time, you can sterilize jars with lids, in which the workpiece will be placed for the winter, and prepare the marinade.
To do this, one and a half liters of water is heated to a boil and combined with one glass of vinegar. Boil for just a few minutes and remove from heat.
The entire vegetable mixture with seasonings is laid out in jars and poured with marinade.
When laying and pouring the marinade, vegetables are slightly compacted so that they are covered with liquid on top.
From this amount of vegetables and filling, 4 liter cans of the workpiece should be obtained. In order for the cabbage pickled for the winter to be stored under normal room conditions, the filled jars are sterilized for 25 minutes in boiling water and rolled up with sterile lids. After that, in an inverted state, they are wrapped in a blanket and left to cool completely.
Secrets of Delicious Pickled Cabbage
What housewives need to remember to make pickled cabbage really tasty.
- Firstly, so that you can crunch with pleasure with ready-made cabbage, you need to choose dense, tight heads of cabbage.
- Secondly, adding cherry, oak or horseradish leaves to the marinade will also contribute to increased crunchiness of daily pickled cabbage. Perhaps someone has already come across this feature of cooking when pickling cucumbers.
- Thirdly, when using a bay leaf, it is removed from the marinade after boiling so that it does not add additional bitterness to the dish.
- Fourthly, to give a spicy aroma and taste to ready-made cabbage dishes, finely chopped ginger root is added to vegetables.
- Fifth, in an effort to diversify the flavor palette, do not limit yourself to standard marinade seasonings like allspice and black pepper and bay leaf. Experiment more freely with the addition of spices such as cumin, coriander, basil, savory, tarragon, rosemary.
- Sixth, when pickling cabbage for the winter, in addition to carrots and apples, you can use a wide variety of vegetables and fruits: cranberries, lingonberries, plums, beets, onions and bell peppers.
In addition to the fact that pickled cabbage salad with apples is a spicy and tasty dish in itself, it is not forbidden to add pickled vegetables from it to other salads of fresh and boiled vegetables. Thus, you can create additional flavor variations and thereby diversify your menu.
