Pickled cauliflower with tomatoes

For some reason, there is an opinion that cauliflower is more suitable for making soups, casseroles. Many cooks fry this vegetable in batter. But these cooking methods should not be dispensed with. Vegetables can be pickled for the winter, and there are a lot of canning recipes.

The taste of pickled tomatoes with cauliflower for the winter will surprise even scrupulous gourmets. The main condition is to choose ripe vegetables. Cauliflower should have dense inflorescences and color appropriate to the variety. Cabbage stumps must be cut out. Just look how appetizing a jar of pickled vegetables looks!

Variations on the theme of cauliflower

We bring to your attention several options for pickling tomatoes and cauliflower for the winter. They differ in composition and have some differences in preparation.

Recipe number 1 – with ordinary tomatoes

To pickle vegetables, prepare the following ingredients:

• ripe tomatoes – 0,5 kg;
• cabbage inflorescences – 0,3 kg;
• sweet pepper – 1 piece;
• garlic – 3 lobules;
• greens – dill, parsley and currant leaves – 1 bunch each;
• table vinegar – 3 large spoons;
• granulated sugar – 120 grams;
• salt – 30 grams;
• black pepper – 5 peas;
• ground hot pepper – on the tip of a knife;
• cloves – 5 buds.

How to pickle

Before canning, prepare jars and lids in advance. We wash them thoroughly with hot water and soda, then rinse in clean water. After that, we sterilize over steam for at least 15-20 minutes.

And now comes the important moment of preparing vegetables:

1. Let’s do the cauliflower first. We wash it and divide it into inflorescences.

   

2. Pour clean water (1 liter) into a saucepan and add two tablespoons of vinegar. When the water boils, add the cabbage inflorescences and cook for about 15 minutes. Do not use aluminum utensils for cooking cauliflower, as the substances that make up it react with the metal.
3. We put the leaves of parsley, dill, blackcurrant and half of the garlic indicated in the recipe in sterile jars.

   

4. We thoroughly wash the sweet pepper, cut it in half, select the seeds and remove the partitions. Cut the peppers into strips and add to the jar.

   

   Pepper seeds in pickled cauliflower with tomatoes for the winter should not be.

5. We take out the boiled inflorescences from the pan and put them in a jar.
6. We wash the tomatoes, dry them. In each tomato, in the area of ​​uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe stalk and around it, we make several punctures with a toothpick.

   

   Tomatoes need to choose small. The varieties “Rocket”, “Cream”, “Pepper” are best suited.

7. Fill the jar to the very top. Spread the rest of the garlic between the layers of vegetables.
8. When the container is full, we will take care of the marinade. We cook it in a liter of water, adding all the spices indicated in the recipe. Pour boiling marinade into vegetables and immediately twist. We turn the jars over and put them under a fur coat or blanket.

A day later, we put the canned tomatoes with cabbage and sweet pepper into the basement. Such preparation for the winter is suitable for meat or fish dishes not only on weekdays, but also on holidays. We are sure that your guests will like cabbage with tomatoes, and they will also ask for a recipe.

Recipe number 2 – with cherry

Advice! If you like spicy snacks, then you can use cherry tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes.

What we need:

• cabbage inflorescences – 1 head;
• cherry – 350 grams;
• garlic and black peppercorns – 5 pieces each;
• lavrushka – 1 leaf;
• vinegar – 1 teaspoon;
• iodized salt – 1 tablespoon;
• granulated sugar – 1,5 tablespoons;
• refined vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon;
• cherry and black currant leaves.

Cooking Rules

We will pickle inflorescences with tomatoes for the winter a little differently than in the previous recipe:

1. We scald cherry and currant leaves with boiling water, and put them on the bottom of the steamed jar.
2. Then we put the washed cherry tomatoes and pieces of inflorescences. And you need to stuff it well, because after pouring with brine, the contents of the container will decrease.
3. Fill with clean boiling water, cover the jars with lids and leave them for half an hour. If for some reason you do not fit into the allotted time, do not worry.
4. After we drain the water, add garlic cloves, black peppercorns and clove buds to the jars.
5. Now let’s prepare the marinade. Pour a liter of water into a saucepan, add salt, sugar and parsley. 10 minutes after boiling, pour in sunflower oil and table vinegar.
6. Pour the cabbage inflorescences with cherry tomatoes with boiling marinade and close immediately.

When the jars have cooled, store them in the basement or refrigerator.

Recipe number 3 – with mustard

If you first decided to pickle cabbage with tomatoes for the winter, then this recipe is just right. After all, the ingredients are indicated for a 700-gram jar.

So prepare:

• 100 grams of cauliflower;
• two sweet peppers;
• two tomatoes;
• one carrot;
• two cloves of garlic;
• half a teaspoon of mustard seeds;
• two bay leaves;
• three peas of allspice;
• 75 grams of granulated sugar;
• 45 grams of salt;
• 20 ml table 9% vinegar.

Stages of work

1. After washing the vegetables, the cauliflower should be divided into small inflorescences, and the tomatoes cut in half. Cut the carrot into slices no thicker than one and a half centimeters. Bulgarian pepper – longitudinal stripes.
2. In a sterile 700-gram jar we put lavrushka, garlic, mustard and allspice.
3. Then we fill the container with tomatoes, inflorescences and sweet peppers. Pour in clean boiling water, put a lid on top and set aside for a quarter of an hour.
4. Drain the liquid into a saucepan, sugar, salt. After 10 minutes after boiling, add table vinegar.
5. Pour the cauliflower with tomatoes with a bubbling marinade and immediately cork.
6. We put the jar upside down, cover with a towel and leave it in this position until it cools.

Vegetables pickled for the winter are well stored even in the kitchen cabinet on the bottom shelf.

Interesting pickled cauliflower platter with various vegetables:

Conclusion

As you can see, conservation does not cause much trouble. Moreover, the options for pickling for the winter are completely different. Choose the recipe that your family will love. Then at any time you can diversify your diet by serving a tasty and healthy snack to meat or fish dishes.