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Salted cabbage is a delicious snack and addition to many dishes. In winter, it can easily replace fresh vegetable salads. True, not everyone knows how to cook it correctly. In doing so, many factors must be taken into account. To make the workpiece crispy and tasty, you must follow some important rules, which we will consider in this article.
Rules for salting cabbage in jars in a cold way
To prepare delicious salted cabbage, the following factors must be considered:
- selection of quality cabbage;
- correct proportions of sugar and salt;
- the required amount of vinegar (if required by the recipe);
- correct shredding method.
Many people confuse sauerkraut and salted cabbage. These snacks differ not only in their taste, but also in the way they are prepared. Fermentation is a longer process. Salting cabbage is much faster. You can salt both the cabbage itself and with the addition of various vegetables, fruits and spices. For example, appetizer recipes with beets, apples, bay leaves and black pepper are very popular.
It is very important not to rush to prepare a snack. Our grandmothers prepared a salad only from those vegetables that were subjected to the first frost. Experience shows that such an appetizer is more crispy and tasty.
Easy quick pickle recipe
To speed up the salting process, you need to add ordinary table vinegar to the appetizer. This is very convenient, since not everyone can store the workpiece in the refrigerator for a long time in large quantities. Moreover, not everyone has their own cellar. And so, quickly cooked cabbage and you can immediately eat it.
Sauerkraut cooks for about a week or even two. Salted cabbage in 8 hours will be completely ready for use. It can simply be added to second courses or used when preparing dumplings or pies.
Necessary ingredients:
- white cabbage – one kilogram;
- one fresh carrot;
- three cloves of garlic;
- sunflower oil – 50 ml;
- 100 grams of salt;
- granulated sugar – 50 gram;
- black peppercorns – 5 pieces;
- water – 0,3 liters;
- table 9% vinegar – 50 ml.
A head of cabbage must be chopped with a knife or a special shredder. Carrots should be washed, peeled and grated on a large grater. Garlic cloves are peeled. You can use one tricky way. Garlic is transferred to any metal bowl, and covered with another saucer on top. Then you need to shake the resulting design until the husk itself leaves. After that, the garlic is simply removed from the plate, and the waste is thrown away.
Next, start preparing the brine. To do this, sugar, sunflower oil, salt and table vinegar are mixed in a separate container. After that, pour in water, which is first brought to a boil. All contents are thoroughly mixed so that the ingredients are completely dissolved. Garlic is cut into small pieces and added to the prepared brine.
Next, in a deep container, mix the prepared cabbage and carrots. They need to be thoroughly rubbed with your hands so that a little juice stands out. After that, the chilled brine is poured into the mixture. Next, cover the container with a lid and set oppression. So, the workpiece should stand for at least two hours.
Pickling cabbage with beets
Carrots are far from all that can be added to salted cabbage. A delicious salad can be prepared using ordinary beets. This preparation is very good fresh. It is also added to cabbage soup, meat and fish dishes. With such cabbage, you can also bake and fry pies.
To prepare salted cabbage with beets, we need:
- fresh white cabbage – 3,5 kilograms;
- beets (red) – half a kilogram;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- horseradish – 2 roots;
- edible salt – 0,1 kilogram;
- granulated sugar – half a glass;
- black pepper – 6 peas;
- bay leaf – 5 pieces;
- 3 Cloves;
- water – 2 liters.
Prepared cabbage is cut into fairly large pieces. Then you need to wash and peel the beets. It is cut into small cubes. Next, start preparing the brine. The water is brought to a boil and cooled. After that, you need to add bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns, granulated sugar and salt to it. Garlic cloves are peeled and passed through a press. Chopped horseradish is also added there.
The brine is thoroughly mixed until all loose ingredients are completely dissolved. Next, you need to mix cabbage with beets and pour everything with brine. After that, the container with the workpiece must be covered with a lid and put something heavy on top. It can be a stone or a container of water.
The first couple of days, the workpiece should be in a dark, cool room. Next, the appetizer is transferred to a glass container and closed with a regular plastic lid. After that, the workpiece is stored in the refrigerator or in the cellar.
Salted cabbage without vinegar
First of all, you need to prepare all the necessary components:
- fresh cabbage – three kilograms;
- carrots – six pieces;
- bay leaf – 10 pieces;
- granulated sugar – 2 tablespoons;
- food salt – 4 tablespoons;
- water – 2,5 liters.
This method is distinguished by its ease and speed of preparation. To pickle cabbage without using vinegar, you need warm boiled water (it should not be hot), add granulated sugar and salt. After that, the solution is filtered through gauze and left to cool.
Next, you need to inspect the heads of cabbage. If the top sheets have any damage, then they must be removed. Then the heads are cut in half and finely chopped. It is most convenient to use a special device for this. Shredded cabbage is transferred to a large container. Many housewives use enamel bowls, as it is very convenient to mix ingredients in them.
Then you need to wash and peel the carrots. Further, it is ground on a grater and also poured into a prepared bowl. After that, spices are added to the workpiece. All contents must be thoroughly rubbed with your hands so that the juice stands out. This may require a little more effort and time.
The vegetable mixture is transferred to glass jars, pressing down the contents after each layer. How tightly the jar is packed depends on how quickly the snack is prepared. When the container is filled to the shoulders, you can pour in the prepared brine. Then the jars are covered with plastic lids and transferred to a warm place.
In this form, the workpiece should stand for at least 3 days. During this time, you need to regularly pierce the contents with a wooden stick. This is done in order to release air from the container. Now the workpiece is completely ready for use.
Delicious crispy cabbage in 2 days
This recipe allows you to cook an unrealistically delicious preparation in a couple of days. And most importantly, it always turns out crispy and very juicy. This recipe will never let you down.
To prepare crispy cabbage, we need the following ingredients:
- one large head of cabbage;
- litere of water;
- 2,5 tablespoons of salt;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 2 teaspoons dried dill;
- 1 carrots.
Water must be boiled and left to cool completely. Then sugar and edible salt are added to it. The head of cabbage must be washed, cut into 2 parts and finely chopped. Carrots are washed, peeled and rubbed on a coarse grater.
All prepared ingredients are transferred to a large container and thoroughly rubbed with your hands. After that, you can pour the brine into the mixture. Next, the container is covered with a lid and left for 2 days. From time to time the contents are pierced with a wooden stick. When 48 hours have passed, you can lay out the workpiece in glass jars. Further, the cabbage is stored in the refrigerator or in any other cold room.
Conclusion
Surely many people love salted cabbage. This preparation helps to preserve the aroma and taste of fresh cabbage for a long time. As we could see, preparing this blank is not difficult at all. In winter, you can cook wonderful pies and dumplings with such cabbage. You can also just add onion and oil to the salad, and you get a wonderful vitamin salad.
