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Pickled cabbage with beetroot slices is a great appetizer for quick consumption and preparation for the winter.
The main advantage that distinguishes this recipe is its ease of preparation. Any novice housewife can pickle cabbage with beets. She prepares very quickly. 1-2 days are enough to have a savory snack on your table.
How to carry out the preparatory stage
Let’s start with the container. If you do not have the ability to store large volumes of blanks, then this should not stop you. Pickled cabbage with beets can be made as needed and in the quantity required. The main requirement for dishes is that they must have a lid. Therefore, tubs, pots, jars are suitable – everything that is at hand. Another plus. Dishes do not need to be sterilized! Wash and dry well and clean. Everything, the container is ready for the process of pickling cabbage with beets.
Cabbage. We choose heads of late varieties with good external data. Cabbage forks should be straight, without damage and signs of rotting or disease. When pickled, the late vegetable remains juicy and crispy, which is very important in our case. Also, the amount of vitamins in heads of cabbage cut in late autumn is much greater than in early varieties.
Beets for snacks are also preferable to take late varieties. Such a root crop is sweeter and juicier, moreover, it has a more saturated color.
The remaining ingredients are spices and water for the marinade.
Each recipe for a pickled beetroot snack differs in some details or additional components. Therefore, in order for us to have the opportunity to choose, we will get acquainted with the most popular options. Let’s start with a simple and quick way to cook pickled cabbage with beets.
Marinated fast food appetizer
This recipe allows you to cook delicious cabbage with marinade in 1 day. Let’s prepare the vegetables first:
- 2 kg of cabbage;
- 1 PC. beets;
- 0,5 heads of garlic.
To prepare the marinade we need:
- water – 1 liter;
- 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar and coarse salt;
- bay leaf – 1 pcs .;
- table vinegar – 0,5 cups;
- black peppercorns – 10 pcs.
The most successful pickling container is a three-liter glass jar. It is convenient to store it in the refrigerator if there is no basement.
Cut the cabbage into large pieces. It can be stripes, but squares are more convenient.
Cut the beets into cubes or strips. This vegetable can be chopped on a grater with large holes.
Chop the garlic into strips.
Mix vegetables and put in a jar.
Let’s get to the marinade.
Boil water with spices, salt and sugar in an enamel pan for 10 minutes.
Then we take out the pepper and bay leaf with a slotted spoon, and add vinegar to the marinade.
Cool the finished marinade a little. It should stay hot but cool down a bit. If you pour cabbage with a boiling composition, then with careless movement, water will fall on the jar, and it will crack. But if you do everything carefully and gradually pour boiling water, giving the jar time to warm up, then you can not cool the marinade.
Now pour the vegetables and leave the appetizer to cool. After cooling, close the jar with a plastic lid and rearrange the cabbage with beets in the refrigerator.
It is ready for use in a day.
The option of harvesting cabbage for the winter in large pieces
As in the previous recipe, we need vegetables and marinade. Pickled cabbage with beets for the winter is usually prepared with the addition of vinegar. But many prefer not to use it in blanks. You can replace this preservative with citric acid, which is immediately added to the jar, and not to the marinade. One teaspoon of acid is enough for a 3-liter container.
Roll cabbage with beets for the winter in large pieces. It is very comfortable. First, it can be quickly cut. Secondly, it remains crispy for the entire shelf life. And thirdly, the pieces are colored with beets with beautiful tints, which gives the appetizer a very festive look.
Let’s prepare the vegetables:
- cabbage – one large head (2 kg);
- red beets and carrots – 1 root crop each;
- garlic – 1 head.
For the marinade, we take the components in the same amount as indicated in the previous version. But this recipe is different. We will need to seal 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil for each bottle of snacks.
Let’s start marinating:
We free the cabbage from the upper leaves and cut the head of cabbage into two halves. Then each half for another 8 parts.
Cut carrots with beets into slices or cubes. You don’t need to chop on a grater – the unusualness of the dish will be lost.
We cut the garlic into slices. Pressing through the press is not recommended, its taste will be faintly felt.
Mix all the vegetables in a large bowl so that the cabbage is evenly colored.
It is better to sterilize jars for the winter version or steam them in the microwave, and pour boiling water over the lids.
We put vegetables in jars without tamping. You can press a little for convenience.
Boil the marinade for 5-7 minutes and pour over the cabbage. Vinegar is added at the end of boiling. If we use citric acid, then we pour it into jars before pouring the marinade.
We roll up the lids and remove the pickled cabbage with beets for storage. It is ready in 2 days, so you can open one jar per sample.
Cabbage with Korean beets
For lovers of moderately spicy, spicy and original snacks, there is a recipe for pickled cabbage with beets in Korean. This dish is very tender and fragrant, with a pleasant spicy taste.
In addition to the usual set of vegetables and spices (see the previous recipe), we need clove buds (3 pcs.), Cumin (1 pinch) and 0,5 cups of vinegar.
We cut the head of cabbage into cubes, removing too thick parts and the stalk.
My carrots and beets and chop on a coarse grater.
Squeeze the garlic through a press.
Combine all vegetables in one bowl and mix.
Put all spices, salt and sugar in water and bring to a boil. Boil for 3-5 minutes.
Pour vegetables with hot marinade, set oppression on top.
Our cabbage will be ready in a day. Such an appetizer can be made in winter and summer, treat friends at home and in nature. Korean-style marinated cabbage with red beets is an excellent addition to meat dishes, mashed potatoes, and all kinds of hot delicacies.
Try pickling cabbage with beets in any way and enjoy the savory taste of a beautiful salad.
