Marinating cabbage alone is not difficult, and it does not take much time. But everyone likes to eat crispy, fragrant and slightly spicy cabbage.
Pickled cabbage is good as an independent dish as a snack for liquor, in various salads, vinaigrettes, as a supplement to meat, fish and potatoes.
There are many ways of pickling vegetables, there are classic recipes, as well as methods of cooking cabbage with various additives.
How to pickle a vegetable?
To make the cabbage really tasty, you need to pay special attention to the marinade. But first it is worth considering what types of pickling exist.
Classic ways
The classic methods of pickling vegetables include:
- Cabbage with carrots. The ingredients are finely chopped, mixed, placed in jars and filled with brine.
- Georgian. In this case, the vegetable is cut into squares, adding chopped beets and carrots. Then the ingredients are stacked in jars in layers and poured with brine.
- In Korean. The heading is cut into 4-8 parts and filled with brine for several days. Then the salted cabbage is smeared with a mixture of bitter pepper and garlic.
For quick cooking
Several ways for instant cabbage:
- Option "immediately to the table". Cabbage and carrots finely chopped and ground with salt. Then pour marinade. You can eat almost immediately.
- Hot way. Finely chopped vegetables pour hot marinade. After cooling, the marinade is ready to eat.
- Option "per day". Cabbage cut into square pieces, carrot rubbed on a coarse grater. Put in a jar, pour marinade. Then the jar is wrapped tightly and left to heat for a day.
A prerequisite for the quick cooking of cabbage - an additive in vinegar marinade.
What grade and when to choose?
To marinate was successful, you need to know some of his tricks:
- For white and red cabbage, a quick cooking method is suitable.
- Beijing is best marinated "in Korean." As for Brussels, since it is marinated with whole kochanchiki, this cabbage is not cut when marinated in a “one day” way, and it will take about 3 days to make it ready.
Marinating Recipes
With cranberries
Products:
- 2 kg of cabbage.
- 40 g cranberries.
- 1 tbsp. Sahara.
- Half a cup of vegetable oil.
- 1-2 carrots.
- 1 tbsp. salt.
- Half a cup of vinegar.
- 1 liter of water.
Step by Step Cooking Instructions:
- Slice the cabbage and place in a deep container.
- Carrots are usually grated.
- For the marinade, water, salt, sugar and vegetable oil are mixed. Everything is put on fire. We need to wait for the moment when the liquid boils. However, it should be stirred occasionally. After the vinegar and spices are added.
- Mixed cabbage and carrots, added berries. They should be a little bit, so the taste of the finished dish will turn out slightly spicy.
- Pour the cabbage with marinade, put a press on top and let it stand for a day or two.
Video recipe for pickled cabbage with cranberries:
With ginger
This recipe requires:
- 1 kg of white cabbage.
- 1 pod of chili.
- 1 piece of ginger root 5 cm in size
- 3 carrots.
- 1 liter of water.
- 2/3 cup rice vinegar.
- 2 tbsp. soy sauce.
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oils.
- 1 tbsp. coarse salt.
- 2 tbsp. Sahara.
- 1 tbsp. coriander seeds.
- Cut vegetables. Large garlic. Cabbage is cut into 2 cm squares. Chili pepper is chopped finely.
- Ginger and carrot are grated. Carrots rubbed into straws.
- Coriander, before placing it in a mortar for grinding, should be slightly heated in a frying pan.
- For the marinade, water, vinegar, soybeans with sugar, chili pepper, ginger, salt and garlic are mixed.
- Spread on the banks of cabbage pickled marinade and placed in the refrigerator.
Pickled cabbage contains vitamins such as B9 and C.
In addition, it also contains beneficial trace elements - potassium, copper and organic acids. Read more about the beneficial and harmful properties of pickled cabbage here.
With citric acid
Citric acid may be added instead of vinegar.. Choose any recipe that suits you, and add acid instead of vinegar. It is suitable for people who do not accept vinegar or do not tolerate it physically.
With the same success, you can use freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Video recipe for pickling cabbage with citric acid:
With horseradish
Products for cooking:
- 2.5 kg of cabbage.
- 5 pieces of bell pepper. If it is red, the cabbage will look better.
- 2 heads of garlic.
- 200 g horseradish, you can and more (for an amateur).
- 2 carrots.
- Half a cup of 9% vinegar.
- Half a cup of sugar.
- 2 tbsp. salt.
- Cut all foods first. Cabbage is chopped, carrots are grated, garlic is minced, horseradish is grated, pepper is cut into strips.
- Everything is mixed and laid out in a large pot or enamelled bucket. Salt, vinegar and sugar are also added there. All is well mixed, not priminaya.
- Then put the cabbage on the banks, lightly rammed. The separated juice also pours into the jars. All banks are placed in the fridge, after a day you can eat cabbage.
With raisins
The disadvantage of a dish with raisins is that it will not work for a long time.
Prepare:
- 2 kg of cabbage and a pound of carrots.
- 2-3 cloves of garlic.
- Half a cup of vegetable oil.
- Sugar - half a cup.
- 1 tbsp. salt and 1 tbsp. 9% vinegar.
- 1 tbsp. raisins.
- After cutting the cabbage, garlic and carrots all the ingredients are mixed. Washed raisins are added there.
- Cooked marinade, at the end of cooking oil is added with vinegar.
- All vegetables are filled with marinade and left for 6 hours in a warm place.
- Then everything cleans up in a cold place.
The shelf life of cabbage with raisins is 48 hours.
Serving dishes on the table
- In Russia, it is customary to serve cabbage to vodka. This is the perfect snack to this alcoholic drink. It can be filled with oil and fresh onions.
- Marinated vegetable is added to various salads, the most popular of which is the vinaigrette.
- It goes well with meat and fish dishes, potato dishes.
- Pickled cabbage is added and soups, borscht and cabbage soup do not go without this important ingredient.
Conclusion
Thus, this very tasty dish will always be in place on the table, both in everyday and festive. If you follow the entire cooking sequence, even a beginner can boast with the ability to cook excellent pickled cabbage.