Recipe for pickled apples with cabbage

Fruits, vegetables and berries have been soaked in Our Country for a long time. Most often they make soaked apples with cabbage. The process itself is a real culinary sacrament. To improve the taste, carrots, various spices and herbs were added to the cabbage. In the old days, it was believed that this dish has love properties.

There are many preservation options, but we will tell you how to cook pickled apples with cabbage using glass jars or enamelware. In addition, you will learn some secrets of urinating apples, the benefits of the finished product.

Which apples to choose

If you decide to treat your home with delicious pickled apples and cabbage, you need to take care of choosing the right fruits. After all, not all apples are suitable for such preservation. Most often, autumn and winter varieties are used for urination, such as Antonovka, Anis, Pepin, Pepin saffron, Golden, Titovka and others.

Unfortunately, when buying apples in a store, we do not know either the name or the ripening period of the fruit. That is why the choice is based on the following parameters:

1. Apples should be sweet and sour, with a pronounced aroma.
2. In addition, the fruits should be firm, not starchy, ripe but not softened.
3. Apples with damage, wormholes, hints of rot or defects should be discarded immediately.
4. You can use apples of any color, the taste of soaked apples does not deteriorate from this, as long as they have sourness in them.
5. Before urinating with cabbage, apples are kept for 2 weeks in a dark, cool place.

important details

The purpose of urinating apples with cabbage is to get high-quality and tasty preservation while maintaining the beneficial properties of the ingredients:

1. To do this, use salt and sugar. Thanks to these seasonings, the finished product becomes not just tasty. The main thing is that when urinating in cabbage, pathogenic microorganisms do not develop, although the fermentation process is in full swing.
2. By adding currants, mint, savory or lovage, you can achieve a variety of taste and aromatic characteristics of pickled apples with cabbage.
3. Lavrushka, allspice peas, mustard seeds, coriander or cumin have the same effect. If you want to get a spicy snack, you can add horseradish root or cloves of garlic, wild garlic or hot pepper when urinating apples with cabbage.
4. And the leaves of oak, cherry, blackcurrant or grapes will add crunch to cabbage.
5. To make soaked apples even healthier, soaking is not complete without orange carrots.

What you need to prepare

Before starting the process itself, you need to prepare:

1. As a rule, apples and cabbage are wetted in wooden tubs. But today other containers are preferred more. For work, you can use ceramic, porcelain, enameled dishes (without cracks and chips) or glass jars. If we talk about banks, then it is better to use five-liter containers, since apples are wetted as a whole. Aluminum dishes for pickled apples with cabbage cannot be used, since this metal interacts with acids and alkalis, spoils the taste and appearance of the product.
2. A wooden circle, a plate or a nylon lid (in jars) are placed on top of the cabbage. They should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the dishes for urinating apples. Before starting work, they are washed in salt water (1 tablespoon of salt per liter of water) and poured over with boiling water.
3. You also need to prepare gauze or cotton cloth for covering dishes.
4. As oppression, you can use a granite stone or an ordinary jar filled with water. The stone must be washed in salt water and scalded.
5. The table, tools and basins for folding vegetables and apples are subjected to the same procedure.

Recipes for Peeling Apples

Unfortunately, there are not so many housewives who cook pickled apples with cabbage. Most often this is due to the fact that they find it impossible to make a blank without a wooden shell. We will try to dissuade them and tell you how pickled apples and cabbage are prepared in any container at hand.

The bank

In the first recipe for pickled apples, the amount of food is minimal. Need to stock up:

• two kilograms of white cabbage;
• a kilogram of Antonovsky or other sweet and sour apples;
• 300 grams of carrots;
• 60 grams of salt;
• 30 grams of granulated sugar.

Cooking method step by step

Step One – Preparing the Vegetables

1. We clean the forks of white cabbage from the top leaves and damage, wash the carrots in cold water and remove the peel. We sort out the Antonov apples, remove those on which there are damages and wash them. Products are used for urination after water drains from them.
2. After that, we start shredding. As for cabbage, each housewife can chop it in her own way: either into straws or into small pieces. Grind the carrots on a grater with large cells.

   

   

3. We mix cabbage and carrots with granulated sugar and salt on the table or in a wide basin, grind thoroughly until the juice is released.

   

Step two – the process of urination

The first layer is cabbage with carrots, then apples. The voids are densely filled with vegetable composition. So we put the jar to the top in layers. The last layer is cabbage and carrots. We cover with a cabbage leaf, insert a nylon cover, oppress it, a towel on top so that it does not get dust.

After a while, the juice will stand out. It must close the lid. From time to time, you need to pierce the contents of the jar with something sharp and thin, for example, a knitting needle, so that the gas released escapes.

We put a jar of fragrant apples soaked in cabbage in a cool place, do not forget to pierce. Readiness comes in 14 days. Bon appetit everyone!

In the pan

We offer a recipe for pickled apples in a saucepan. You will need the following ingredients:

• cabbage – 4 kg;
• apples – 3 kg;
• carrots (medium size) 3 pieces;
• salt – 90 grams;
• sugar – 60 grams.

We will not describe the process of urinating apples in cabbage, since it is identical to the recipe already described. We only note that a cabbage leaf is placed in the pan at the bottom and on top of the workpiece. We lay a wooden circle or a large plate on the workpiece, they are oppressed.

You can store a delicious winter appetizer of cabbage with pickled apples on the balcony or cellar.

An interesting way to soak apples in sauerkraut:

Hostess on the note

Wetting apples with cabbage is not associated with heat treatment, the whole process occurs naturally. Therefore, all useful substances are preserved in the workpiece, especially vitamin C, which is so necessary in winter.

Cabbage with apples is rich not only in vitamin C, but also in many others. It has a high content of micro and macro elements, almost the periodic table. The calorie content of the product is low, so it is quite possible to introduce it into the diet for weight loss.

In addition, soaked apples contain substances that are of great benefit:

1. A large amount of pectin, it is even more in the harvest than in fresh fruits.
2. During fermentation, lactic acid is formed, which is necessary for our body to suppress pathogenic bacteria in the intestines.
3. Organic acids stimulate the secretion of the gastrointestinal tract.

But despite the benefits, cabbage with pickled apples should be used with caution for people with high acidity of the stomach and ulcerative conditions of the intestines.

Acute diseases of the liver, pancreas are also contraindications.