Cabbage is one of the most valuable sources of vitamin C and other micronutrients useful to our body. It is good as the main ingredient in salads, cold appetizers, first courses, side dishes. The main thing - to choose a successful recipe for pickles or marinade.
Marinated cabbage, common
To make you get a delicious cabbage marinated (in banks, for the winter), you can try to prepare it in this way. For a liter tank, you need: the vegetable itself - 1 kg, fragrant pepper - peas 8-10, up to 5 cloves of a carnation, a handful of cumin and coriander. Since you do not have sauerkraut, and cabbage marinated in cans for the winter, then pour it not with pickle, but with marinade: 200 g of vinegar, a little less (120-150 g) of sugar and a tablespoon of salt (you can with a slide) per liter of water, . The sunset turns out to be juicy, if you add one more component - onion. But this is optional. Cabbage is finely shredded with straws (a special machine or by hand). Then for a minute, lower it into boiling water to make it softer. For marinade water should be boiled, dissolve the salt with sugar, at the end pour vinegar and remove the pan from the fire. Now in the sterilized jars spices are poured, a little marinade is poured, the cabbage is piled tightly and filled with the remaining liquid up to the top. Pasteurized cabbage marinated in cans (for the winter) 15 minutes - this is for liter containers. Roll it, turn over the packaging and wrap it, leave it cool, then put it in storage in the pantry.
Cabbage in oil
Tough, crispy and immediately ready to eat as a salad, you get a cabbage harvested in such a way: for 1 kg of the vegetable you need: salt - 200 g (for marinade), carrots - from 300-500 g, optional 2-3 onions, The head of garlic. Vegetables shredded or rubbed on a large grater. They should be slightly crushed to let the juice, then rub with a little sugar and salt and put in a prepared container. Cabbage (marinated) is poured in cans for the winter with such composition: per liter of boiled water 200 g of salt, 100-150 sugar, as much vinegar and 250 g of sunflower oil. Naturally, the marinade should be boiling. Banks are closed with nylon caps. After complete cooling, the cabbage is stored in the refrigerator.
Another salad dressing
Very delicious, according to the lovers of vegetable salads, comes cabbage, marinated (in cans of litters it is more convenient to close) with zucchini or squash. Prepared salad as follows: taken in equal amounts, both vegetables cut into small slices. Dip in boiling water for 5 minutes, then put under cold water. Spread prepared vegetables (mixed or layers) in sterilized cans. And the last stage of how to cook marinated cabbage, is to fill it with a fill. It is prepared from the calculation: 2 liters of water requires sugar - 2.5-3 cups, vinegar (6%) - 2 cups, as much sunflower oil. Salt should be 4 tablespoons without a slide. The specified amount of marinade is used for 2 kg of vegetables. If there are more, then the amount of filling should be increased proportionally. Close the jars with plastic lids and put them in the refrigerator.
Delicious and useful to you home preparations!