The history of harvesting cabbage for the future has centuries-old roots. And now many housewives salt, ferment, pickle this round-sided beauty. Usually, first chopped cabbage, carrots, garlic are spread in a jar or other container, and then they are poured with prepared brine. It’s easy to prepare marinade for cabbage for the winter . How to do this will be discussed right now.
Cooking cabbage fill
If the hostess decided to cook traditional cabbage, then the brine includes the following ingredients:
- 1.5 liters of water;
- 1.5 cups of sugar;
- 3 tablespoons of salt;
- 180 grams of vegetable oil;
- 2 tablespoons of 70% vinegar.
These products make marinade for cabbage for the winter. It is enough for pouring five liter cans. As mentioned above, cabbage is shredded (one head is enough), carrots (3-4 pieces) are chopped with a coarse grater. A peeled and chopped head of garlic is added to these vegetables, everything is mixed. Now you need to fill sterilized jars well with prepared vegetables. Unlike sauerkraut, pickled cabbage does not need to be crushed by hands with salt, so it will turn out to be more crispy. Vinegar, which is added to the cabbage marinade for the winter, will also help her to stay that way. But it needs to be infused at the very end, since with prolonged boiling, most of the vinegar disappears.
Vinegar - the base of the marinade
So, all the products for the marinade are laid and poured into the pan, mixed and brought to a boil. Now you can add the required amount of vinegar, which is necessarily added to the marinade for cabbage for the winter. It will help the workpiece to be crispy and stored for a long time.
Cabbage is poured with this hot brine, covered with plastic covers and left for 12 hours. It is convenient to prepare a delicious dish in the evening, and then in the morning you can taste a vitamin salad. Banks are stored in a refrigerator, cellar or other cool place. In this form, they are perfectly stored for a month. Then you can prepare the next portion of vitamin salad. Cabbage in a sweet marinade is tasty and healthy. In the winter, it perfectly nourishes the body with important trace elements. Especially so necessary in the cold season with vitamin C.
To keep the salad longer
In order for the “rolls” to be stored all winter, they first prepare the marinade, then fill them with liter cans for a quarter, and only then lay the cabbage. Now the cans must be sterilized for 25 minutes in water at 90 ° C. To prevent the glass from breaking, a rag is placed at the bottom of the container into which the cans are placed.
Modify the recipe
The article was given a classic recipe for cabbage in marinade. You can supplement it by putting caraway, dill, apples or beets in the pickles. A salad with cranberries or cranberries is very tasty. For 1 kg of cabbage, 20 grams of cranberries (or lingonberries), carrots and 5 grams of caraway seeds are taken. Here's how to cook marinade for cabbage with berries: 25 grams of salt, 100 grams of sugar, 200 grams of 9% vinegar and 6-7 allspice are taken per liter of water. Then everything is done, as in the previous recipe. And the delicious vitamin cabbage is ready. Unlike fermented, it can be consumed after 12 hours, and it turns out more crispy. Those who are contraindicated in vinegar can replace it with citric acid.