How to sour cabbage at home for the winter - a quick recipe

How to cook sauerkraut

The minimum cabbage souring time isusually 2-3 days, no less, depending on what grade you will use. However, if you want to get crispy salty cabbage as quickly as possible, then you can do it in 4-5 hours!

For this you need the following products: Cabbage - 1 kg, garlic - 3 cloves, carrots - 3 pieces, acetic acid (9%) - 8-10 table spoons, water - half-liter, vegetable oil - half glass, salt - a tablespoon and half-glass sugar.

Preparation of sauerkraut:

1. 
   Take cabbage forks and peel it from damaged first leaves. Cut and then discard the cob (it is not needed because of the possible contents of nitrates in it). Cut the cabbage into small pieces.


2. 
   On a large grater, chop the carrots. 3. Pass the garlic through the scabbard or press.


3. 
   Mix all the ingredients in one large cup. 5. At this time, pour the water into the pan and put it on a stove, bring to a boil.


4. 
   Put salt with sugar, as well as vinegar and vegetable oil. Mix everything and boil a little.


5. 
   Fold the vegetables in a jar and fill with a hot marinade.


6. 
   Sterilize in a saucepan of boiling water near20-30 minutes. Roll the jar. Quick sauerkraut can not only be harvested for the winter, but also cook without canning. In this case, you just need to put it on her and wait about a day - the cabbage will be delicious and crunchy!

How to sour cabbage in a jar

Products: white cabbage - 1 pc., Liter of water, 2 carrots, one tablespoon of sugar and salt.

How to sour cabbage:

1. 
   Remove the top green leaves from the cabbage, rinse it in cold water and cut into two parts, then cut out the stump. Shred cabbage by hand or using a combine with a special nozzle.


2. 
   Carrots peel and grate roughly.


3. 
   Mix the carrots with cabbage and very densely pound them in a jar. Use a rolling pin to do this.


4. 
   Water with sugar and salt put on a plate and boil.


5. 
   Pour marinade vegetables and put the jar in a warm secluded place. It is best to arrange in the kitchen.


6. 
   How much to sour cabbage? Optimum: three days, and then you can put the workpiece in the refrigerator.

Read also how tasty it is to pickle cabbage for the winter in cans.

A recipe for cabbage, sauerkraut with beets

Products: cabbage - 3,5 kg, beets - 300 g, carrots - 300 g, garlic - 1-2 heads, salt - 4-5 teaspoons, granulated sugar - 150-170 g, oil - 100 ml and vinegar - 180 grams -200 ml.

Preparation:

1. 
   Cut cabbage into small cubes. Cut the beet into thin strips.


2. 
   Garlic peel, grate the carrots.


3. 
   Take a large pot and put into it a piece of cabbage, carrots and beets with garlic, on top - again cabbage and so a few layers of vegetables. Over the entire vegetable mass must be cabbage.


4. 
   Prepare marinade from salt, vinegar, butter and sugar. Pour one liter of boiling water and mix.


5. 
   Add marinade in cabbage and put oppression (for example, a jar of water). The cabbage is ready after 2 days.

A recipe for cabbage, sauerkraut with mushrooms

Ingredients: cabbage - 3 kilograms, carrots - 200-250 grams, salt - 120 grams, apples - 350-400 grams, mushrooms - 600-700 grams.

Sour cabbage - recipe:

1. 
   Cabbage clean and chop. Cut apples into slices, and mushrooms into slices. Carrot after washing, grate.


2. 
   Vegetables put in a cup, add salt and put on a vegetable mass oppression.


3. 
   Take the cup to a cool place. After 2-3 days you can get cabbage and eat it, or spread it over sterilized jars and roll up the lids.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko