Oh, this crispy cabbage! Perhaps the best snack on the festive table, and even with pickles, does not happen! There are many options for obtaining a dish - they are pickled, fermented and mixed with other vegetables. For the speed of obtaining a piquant product, cabbage in brine is most often prepared. This article provides some quick and affordable recipes for a delicious snack. Salting cabbage in brine can be done differently. The taste and aroma of the billet largely depends on the composition of the marinade.
Spicy Beijing cabbage in brine
Prepare the marinade from 5 liters of plain cold water and a full ordinary glass of salt. Boil the liquid and allow it to cool almost completely. Place 5 kg of fresh juicy Beijing cabbage in a spacious container and fill with brine for 3 days for fermentation. After that, take out the forks, let them drain and coat all the leaves with a mixture of 0.5 kg of peeled garlic and 350 g of hot fresh pepper passed through a meat grinder. Seasoned heads of cabbage for 2 days, put under oppression. Store cooked cabbage in the refrigerator.
Recipe for quick preservation "Spicy white cabbage in brine with vinegar"
Lightly chop two medium-sized heads of cabbage (approximately 2 kg). To the mass, add 4 grated carrots, 1-2 heads of chopped garlic. Mix everything and place in a pan (you can in a jar). Boil 1 liter of water with 5-6 peas of black pepper, 3 pcs. bay leaf, 150 g of sugar and 70-80 g of salt. Pour ¼ cup of vinegar and ½ cup of any vegetable oil into the hot liquid. Immediately marinade fill the pan and let cool at room temperature. After about 3-4 hours, place the snack in the refrigerator. You can take a sample!
Korean style cauliflower in brine
Take one middle head and disassemble into inflorescences. Mix one large grated carrot, 3-4 pcs. peeled and crushed cloves of garlic with 2 very full dessert spoons of spicy Korean seasoning. Prepare the marinade from 1 liter of cold plain water, 1 faceted glass of sugar, an incomplete glass of a weak solution of vinegar (5-6%), 2 tbsp. l table salt, ¼ part of a glass of untreated "odorous" sunflower oil, boiling all the components for 2-3 minutes. Pour the cauliflower laid in the pan with hot liquid and leave for 24 hours without taking it to the cold.
" Honey" cabbage in a pickle with spices
To prepare the marinade, dissolve in 1 liter of raw water 2 very full st. l salt and 2 full dess. l sugar, boil the mixture. After complete cooling, dissolve in it 1 tbsp. l thick honey. Cut a large cabbage of ordinary cabbage into cubes, grate two medium carrots on a “Korean” device. Mix the mass and ram into cans, sprinkling lightly with bay leaf, ground pepper and cloves. Pour the cold marinade into jars so that the products are well saturated. Leave the jars at room temperature for several days, periodically piercing cabbage with a long knife for a better exit of gases. Tamp the prepared cabbage again and store in a cool place, closing it with plastic lids.