Almost every owner of his garden grows cabbage on it. This is a vegetable with a lot of useful qualities. It is steamed, boiled, fried, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Cabbage juice can heal from peptic ulcer, and its fresh leaves relieve swelling and contribute to the rapid healing of wounds.
Sauerkraut
The ability to preserve vitamin C in this vegetable for a long time has been known since ancient times. Sailors stocked with sauerkraut, setting off on long voyages so as not to get scurvy. Orthodox monks made a variety of cabbage salads for the winter, adding berries. She became a traditional Russian dish.
In addition to vitamins A, B and C, this pickled vegetable contains a large amount of iodine. Also, with this preparation, cabbage is saturated with beneficial bacteria that improve digestion and maintain beneficial microflora in the intestines. She can keep all these useful qualities for up to six months with proper storage.
The recipe is very simple:
- Water (2.5 liters) is boiled with a glass of salt, the same amount of sugar and a stack of diluted vinegar.
- Chop the cabbage, stuff it tightly into jars and fill it with the resulting brine
Old salad recipes suggested using wooden barrels. They stuffed cabbage with a special pusher and put it under oppression. So she stood for about three days in the warmth. During this time, they pierced it with a stick so that the gases accumulated during fermentation escaped. This was done so that the salad did not have a bitter aftertaste.
Sauerkraut can be used as an independent product or used in the preparation of various other dishes. If it tastes too sour, you can rinse it. To do this, use cold or ice water, so as not to deprive the dish of healthy vitamins.
Coleslaw for the winter
To stock up with delicious vitamins for the cold season, it is imperative to sterilize the jars. To make a classic cabbage salad for the winter, you will need one medium carrot and three cloves of garlic.
For marinade, you need to dissolve one tablespoon of sugar and two tablespoons of salt in a liter of water.
- Cabbage needs to be chopped with small chips.
- For carrots, use a coarse grater.
- Then mix these ingredients.
- In a jar, throw a couple of bay leaves, a few peas of black pepper and a clove of garlic.
- Pour a jar of chopped vegetables tightly and pour the marinade to the top.
- Add vinegar and close with an iron lid.
Once the jar has cooled, put it in a cold place. Thus prepared salad from cabbage and carrots for the winter is ready for storage.
Cabbage and Pepper Salad
For this dish you will need:
- one kilogram of sweet pepper;
- the same amount of carrots and onions;
- the main ingredient is five kilos of white cabbage.
For marinade in a salad with cabbage and pepper for the winter you need to take:
- one and a half glasses of sugar;
- two glasses of table vinegar;
- the same amount of vegetable oil;
- four tablespoons of salt.
Thinly chop the pepper into half rings. If it is of different colors (yellow, red, green), it will turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful. Cabbage should be finely chopped, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion. Mix all the vegetables.
Add sugar, salt, vinegar to vegetable oil and pour the mixture of vegetables with the resulting marinade.
You can immediately eat a salad with cabbage, carrots and peppers for the winter, or put them in sterilized jars and roll them up. Many serve it as a side dish for meat or fish dishes.
Winter salad with carrots
A huge amount of vitamins and minerals contains carrots. It improves eyesight thanks to beta-carotene, which strengthens the retina, and also restores the health of the skin and mucous membranes. In combination with cabbage, it has a beneficial effect on the gallbladder and helps to cleanse the liver.
To prepare a vitamin salad, you must take:
- cabbage - 300 g;
- carrots - 1 medium piece;
- apple - 1 piece;
- greens, salt - to taste.
Cut white cabbage into strips and mash hands with salt. So it will become softer and more tender in taste. Grate carrots on a regular coarse grater, do the same with an apple. Mix and season with vegetable or olive oil, garnish with greens on top.
Such a salad of cabbage and carrots for the winter will provide you with the necessary vitamins. It can be cooked for lunch or dinner at least every day.
Salad with Cabbage and Cucumbers
Cucumbers are also good for the body. They contain antioxidants that lower the risk of cancer and heart disease. Potassium in cucumbers helps maintain blood pressure. This vegetable is low in calories, so it is added to many dishes and included in the diet for weight loss. It is logical to use it in the next salad, which will require:
- 1 kg of cucumbers;
- 1 kg of cabbage;
- 1.3 kg of tomatoes;
- 4 things. bell pepper;
- 800 g of onions;
- 100 g of dill.
All ingredients should be finely chopped and sent to the pan. To them pour 2 cups of oil, 1 cup of vinegar, 5 tablespoons of sugar and salt to taste. Stir and keep on low heat for 10 minutes.
The resulting salad of cabbage and cucumbers for the winter roll up in jars. In the cold season, it will serve as a healthy snack on the dining table.
Bulgarian salad
There are many more recipes for delicious preservation. For example, a Bulgarian cabbage salad for the winter will require a large number of ingredients. But then the dish will turn out tasty and healthy. For him, you need:
- a kilogram of cabbage;
- sweet bell pepper - 3 pieces;
- two red sweet onions;
- medium tomatoes - 4 pieces;
- carrots - 3 pieces;
- sunflower oil - 100 milliliters;
- garlic - 1⁄2 head;
- salt - 1⁄2 tablespoon;
- sugar - 1.5 tablespoons;
- pepper and paprika to taste.
We start cooking:
- In sunflower oil, fry the onion, sliced in half rings, and finely chopped garlic.
- We cut the carrots into bars and add to the fry. As soon as it softens a little, put the chopped cabbage and simmer, then add the bell pepper. It must be cut into cubes, having previously been cleaned of seeds, otherwise they will give the dish an unpleasant bitterness.
- On tomatoes, make a cross-shaped incision and dip in boiling water, and after a few minutes - in cold water. Now they can be peeled, cut into cubes and mixed with other vegetables.
- Add sugar, salt and pepper, mix and leave to simmer under the lid for 30-35 minutes.
The dish is ready! For the winter, coleslaw and bell pepper salad are also canned and cleaned in the cellar.
Horseradish salad
Such a recipe from home Russian cuisine is useful to any housewife:
- We take cabbage, horseradish root, water, salt, sugar and table vinegar.
- We dissolve the head of the whole leaves and boil them for five minutes in salted water.
- We use the same marinade as in the previous recipes.
- Cool the leaves and cut them into strips about 6 centimeters wide.
- Put a teaspoon of grated horseradish and wrap. You need to wrap tightly so that the sheets do not immediately fall apart.
- Tamp in a jar and pour boiling marinade.
This appetizer is good for alcoholic drinks or instead of a side dish for lovers of spicy dishes.
Korean salad
For the preparation of such a salad, you need forks of white cabbage, one middle beet, a couple of cloves of garlic and one head of onion.
For the marinade, as usual, water, salt, sugar, pepper, vegetable oil and table vinegar.
- Rinse the vegetables thoroughly. We chop cabbage in large cubes, carrots and beets, cut into strips, chop the garlic and onions in the same way.
- Mix all processed vegetables.
- In a pan with water, boil the marinade until the salt and sugar dissolve, only then pour the vinegar.
- We stuff the vegetables in a jar, pour the marinade. The cooled cans are removed in the refrigerator.
The next day, the pickle will be ready, and you can eat it or remove the salad with cabbage for the winter in the cellar.
Cauliflower blank
This vegetable is also good for harvesting for the winter. Cauliflower salad is easy to prepare, tasty and very nutritious.
Of the ingredients we need:
- tomatoes - 800 g
- carrots - 300 g;
- cauliflower - 1.5 kg;
- garlic - 1 head;
- greens - 2 bunches of dill;
- sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
- vegetable oil - 180 ml;
- vinegar - 30 ml;
- sugar - 90 g;
- salt - 45 g.
To clean the cabbage of possible parasites from the garden, soak it for 30 minutes in salted water. After we divide into inflorescences and boil in boiling water for two minutes.
Pour vegetable oil into a pan with a thick bottom. We fry the cabbage in it, then add the Bulgarian pepper and keep it on fire for another 3 minutes.
Rub tomatoes in a separate bowl and mix with salt, sugar and vinegar. Add the resulting tomato dressing to our vegetables and wait until the mixture boils. After we turn off the gas and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat. We chop the garlic and herbs, mix them in the billet and cook for another 5 minutes.
The resulting salad of cabbage, carrots, peppers for the winter roll up the lid in sterilized jars.
Cauliflower with rice for the winter
A very satisfying and nutritious preparation is obtained by adding long-grain rice to vegetables. It is prepared as follows:
- We sort 1.5 kilograms of cauliflower and boil for three minutes.
- We wash 250 grams of rice several times and cook until half ready, drain the water.
- Fry 500 g grated carrots in sunflower oil in a pan with a thick bottom (you can use a cauldron).
- Grind 1.5 kilograms of tomatoes through a meat grinder with peppers peeled from seeds and partitions and put in a carrot.
- Season with garlic, salt and sugar to taste.
- Now it's the turn of cabbage and rice. Mix all the ingredients and cook for 20 minutes.
- Add vinegar and keep on low heat for another 25 minutes.
- We lay out on prepared banks and roll up for the winter.
For any preparations with cauliflower, try not to digest it strongly, then it will be possible to cut small inflorescences that will look beautiful in a jar.
There are many recipes for cabbage salads for the winter, which were prepared by our grandmothers. The main thing is that it is tasty and healthy!