Cabbage for the winter

No white cabbage in winter can not do. It is recognized by many as a universal Russian vegetable, which is good both fresh and in a crockery, marinated, fried and stewed. And what wonderful to taste and original are obtained from cabbage all kinds of cutlets, pancakes and casseroles! The stuffing from cabbage mistresses willingly add in pies, rolls, pancakes, what to speak about such first dishes loved as all, such as cabbage soup and borsch, which can not be cooked without the addition of this vegetable.

During the festivities and holidays on the Russian table there is certainly one more classic Russian dish - cabbage rolls. And what a myriad of various salads you can make from cabbage, with the addition of sweet pepper, caraway, cranberry, carrot, beet, giving a beautiful color to the dish! And all of them will be completely different to your liking.

Cabbage for the winter: tasty and healthy!

Sauerkraut or marinated cabbage is perfectly preserved throughout the long winter, and the longer it takes, the better for its unsurpassed qualities it becomes. In this unique snack is just a shock dose of vitamin C, which can lift on the feet of any patient. Regular consumption of sauerkraut is the most affordable, budgetary and, moreover, a very tasty way to make up for its lack.

Cabbage brine will help to quickly reduce the temperature, dramatically increase the body's resistance to various colds, and significantly improve the condition of those who had a little overdone with alcohol. What kind of vitamins and trace elements are not present in cabbage: magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, etc. There is even a substance in it that prevents the development of peptic ulcer. This priceless vegetable is useful for people with problems with urination, with high cholesterol, with diseases of the cardiovascular system. Thanks to fiber and dietary fiber found in cabbage, it can be considered one of the most effective dietary products, it is very useful for people who are overweight. Add to your daily diet cabbage, and you will see how kilograms literally melt day after day.

Fresh cabbage leaves are known to people who apply bruises and inflamed joints to the site. And if the cabbage leaf is generously flavored with honey and put on a night on a sore spot, then its therapeutic effect will intensify several times. Useful cabbage with such a serious ailment as diabetes: it significantly reduces the level of glucose in the blood. The juice from cabbage is useful even with cough and bronchitis.

Rules and methods of harvesting cabbage for the winter.

Cabbage is a late vegetable, which is usually removed from the garden last, along with sea buckthorn. As a rule, it is chopped after the first frosts, when it will almost turn frosty. It's too early to salt a cabbage in any case, it can sour, usually salting or sour cabbage mistresses plan for the beginning of November. In this case, the white must be juicy and crunchy, otherwise it will not work.

Ingredients that are usually added to cabbage are few, but they are all time-tested. This carrot, sweet pepper, caraway, beets, cranberries. All of them perfectly set off the taste of cabbage and give it even more good.

Sauerkraut

Composition:

• 5 heads of cabbage,
• 1kg of carrots,
• 400 gr of salt.

How to prepare:

1. Vegetables shink and layer by layer we put in the total capacity, necessarily rubbing each salt. Do this until the container is filled to the brim.
2. We leave the cabbage in a warm room, pierce it as the juice is formed, several times a day.
3. We take the foam to make the bitterness go away.
4. As soon as the foam ceases to appear, we spread the snack to the banks and store it for storage.

Marinated cabbage with beets and carrots

This preparation is not only a triple taste, but also a triple benefit for your body!

Composition:

• 3 cabbage forks,
• 2 beets,
• 2 carrots,
• several garlic cloves.

Marinade: for half a liter of water, you need to take 180 ml of 9% vinegar, 6 tablespoons of sugar, 3 tablespoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of refined vegetable oil, a few lavras.

How to cook:

1. All our wonderful products shink as much as we like.
2. We spread them in layers in cans: on the bottom - a layer of cabbage, on it carrots, then beets, and so on up to the top. Do not forget to add garlic.
3. Simultaneously we cook marinade. For this, the pan is filled with water, we put sugar and salt in it, laurel and boil it.
4. Pour into the still hot brine vinegar and pour all the ingredients so that the vegetables are completely drowned in the liquid.
5. Pour on top of one spoon of oil and cork.

Fast food

Composition:

• 2 cabbage fork,
• 5-6 carrots,
• 2-3 cloves of garlic,
• 1 liter of water,
• 200 ml of any refined oil,
• 200 ml of 9% vinegar,
• 3 tablespoonsspoons of salt,
• 6 tablespoons of sugar,
• several lavras.

How to cook:

1. We cut cabbage into random pieces, shred carrots. Garlic is passed through a press or finely chopped.
2. We pound the prepared vegetables one by one, to the top of the container.
3. Make the marinade: stir the salt, sugar, vinegar, oil in the water, lower the bay leaf, let it boil.
4. Fill the snack with the resulting brine, and cover it with some kind of yoke.
5. Literally in a couple of hours the delicacy is ready for use.

Cabbage with onion and pepper

Ingredients:

• 4 cabbage forks,
• 1 kilogram of peppers in different colors,
• 0.5 kilograms of onions,
• 2 tablespoons of salt,
• 0.5 tablespoons of vinegar,
• 2 tablespoons of refined oil.

How to prepare:

1. We clean cabbage, removing the upper leaves, arbitrarily shred.
2. Pepper is cut into pieces of arbitrary shape.
3. Do the same with the onion.
4. Before mixing all the ingredients( it is better to do it in a large basin), the main ingredient should be rubbed with salt and sugar.
5. After that we pour oil there and send the remaining vegetables.
6. We dilute vinegar with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and pour into the dishes.
7. Once again, everything is mixed, put the snack into cooked dishes, put it in the cold.
8. After about seven to eight days, we can try an unusually tasty, savory and health-giving snack. Cabbage with cranberries - original and tasty

   Composition:

   • 2 cabbages of medium size,
   • 200 grams of cranberries,
   • 4 carrots,
   • 1 liter of water,
   • 4 tablespoons of salt,
   • 8 tablespoons of sugar,
   • 1 tablespoon of vinegar.

   How to prepare:

   1. Cabbage shredded in random order, someone likes thin pieces, someone more, mnem until juice appears.
   2. Put our cabbage in turn in turn with cranberries and carrots.
   3. We impose it with some kind of adaptation or hands, just not hard enough to crush cranberries.
   4. Pre-cook the marinade: pour sugar and salt into the water when they are completely dissolved, pour the vinegar and cool it.
   5. Pour cold cabbage into the cabbage, leave it overnight at room temperature, and then clean it in the refrigerator.

   Of course, this is not all the recipes of white cabbage preparations for the winter. By the way, it is miraculously stored not only in the form of salads, salted and sour, but frozen. Try to freeze cabbage at least once, and you will do it every fall. To do this, take cabbage, chop it as you are going to use it, put it in packages and freeze. In the same package you can put pepper, carrots or beetroot. Frozen cabbage is perfect for cooking soup, borsch, stew. In this case, not a single vitamin will be lost, it will completely retain all its unique qualities, as well as taste qualities. Bon Appetit!

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