Speaking of sauerkraut, housewives most often mean shredded cabbage, salted with carrots. But you can ferment cabbage and heads of cabbage. A small head of cabbage, surrounded by other fresh and salted vegetables, will be a worthy decoration even for a festive table.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - small heads of cabbage;
- - salt;
- - water;
- - garlic;
- - celery;
- - wooden barrel or vat:
- - wooden circle:
- - oppressed;
- - linen canvas or gauze;
- - a sharp knife.
Instruction manual
1
For pickling heads, you need to carefully approach the choice of cabbage. Pick up small and medium heads of cabbage. They are preferably about the same size. Remove covering leaves.
2
Make cross-shaped incisions on each head along the stump, lay in rows in a wooden barrel. Sometimes the cabbage is sprinkled with chopped cabbage, but you can not do this.
3
Cook the brine. Mandatory components are water and salt. In 1 liter of cold or slightly warm (but not hot) boiled water, dissolve 40 g of sodium chloride. Sugar (as much as salt) can be added to the brine. Some housewives instead of sugar add honey to the brine. The ratio of honey and salt is 1: 2.
4
On top of a cabbage head, lay the leaves you removed. Cover it all with a piece of clean linen or folded with 3-4 layers of gauze. Lay a wooden circle on top of the fabric and bend it on top. Fill the cabbage with brine so that the circle is slightly flooded.
5
The first five days, keep a barrel of cabbage in a room with room temperature. Then put in a cold room or on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Cabbage is ready in 3-4 days. Cut the heads of cabbage into several parts, season with vegetable oil and serve.
6
You can pickle unblinked cabbage and hot. True, for this, you will still have to cut the heads out in half or 4 parts, depending on the size. Cut the stitches. Submerge the cabbage in boiling water for about 5 minutes.
7
Cook the hot pickle. To do this, dissolve 40 g of salt in 1 liter of water. Chop 400 g of celery and 100 g of garlic finely, put them in prepared water. Bring the brine to a boil and cook for 3-4 minutes.
8
Place the cabbage in a wooden or glass dish. Cover with a cloth on top, put a wooden circle and bend, fill with brine. If the brine does not cover the circle, add the missing amount of cold brine. Make it based on the same proportions as in the first recipe. Put the container in a cool place.
9
When fermenting cabbage with cabbage in the second way, observe the process. At some point, the cabbage will settle to the bottom, then it will be necessary to plant half more heads. Make sure that the circle is constantly flooded.
note
Today we will reveal to you several secrets that will help pickle cabbage according to all the rules. First of all, cabbage needs to be prepared for pickling. Choose a large dense head of cabbage with white leaves: the lighter they are, the tastier the cabbage. Chop cabbage into a bowl, then add 3-4 carrots chopped on a grater there.
Related article
When to salt cabbage in 2018 according to the lunar calendar: favorable days