Cabbage in instant jars

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 4 day 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's prepare the ingredients for pickling cabbage. As a rule, cabbage is salted in late September and early October, when white cabbage is rich in lactic acid. The variety of white cabbage is also important for preparing preparations for the winter. When purchasing from a seller, you can check whether such cabbage is suitable for pickling.

2. STEP 2

   

   We remove the top dry leaves from the head of cabbage, cut out the stalk, and finely chop the cabbage with a knife or on a special grater.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater or cut into strips. If the cabbage preparation is prepared in large quantities, then you can use a food processor and pass through it all the vegetables necessary for pickling the cabbage.

4. STEP 4

   

   Place the cabbage and carrots in a deep container, mix them, you can mash them with your hands so that the vegetables release their juice.

5. STEP 5

   

   Boil water, dissolve sugar and salt in it, let the brine cool completely. Wash the jars of the required volume with a soda solution and sterilize them using one of the convenient methods: in a water bath, in the oven or in the microwave. Transfer the cabbage and carrots into sterilized clean jars, We place the vegetables very tightly, pressing them with our hands or with a wooden push.

6. STEP 6

   

   Pour the prepared brine over the cabbage in the jars. Cover the jars with lids (but do not close them tightly, the cabbage should “breathe”) and leave at room temperature for 3-4 days to ferment. During fermentation, it is possible that the juice will spill out of the jar, so it is better to place the jars with cabbage in a basin or other deep container; the leaked brine must be poured back into the jars so that the cabbage is covered with brine.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fermentation is complete, close the jars with lids and store them in the refrigerator. The appetizer is ready and can be served. A simple salad made from this type of cabbage is very tasty; just add finely chopped fresh onions and vegetable oil. We serve the dish to the table. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

EllaRosa

24.12.2023

4.5

Tasty! I also like this option for preparing cabbage with cucumbers. You get a salad right away.

Natalia M

24.12.2023

4.8

I chose a recipe for cabbage in instant jars, because this is one of the easiest ways to pickle cabbage. It’s true that I haven’t used salt in jars for a long time; it’s not convenient to put them in the refrigerator. I sauerkraut and marinate in containers and pickle buckets. For this salad, I chopped the cabbage, mashed it slightly and mixed it with grated carrots. Then I transferred it to a container and filled it with cooled brine. I didn’t compact the cabbage, because it’s still in the ready-made brine. By the way, it's convenient. Now the cabbage is hard and dry, and the ready-made brine helps it to salt and ferment. The container stood on my table for three days under gauze, the contents were stirred periodically. The cabbage didn’t really “boil”, but it was salted well, and even some sourness appeared. Then I kept the cabbage in the refrigerator for two more days to consolidate the effect). I served salted cabbage for dinner, sprinkled with aromatic oil. It turned out delicious, the cabbage was crispy. Salt and sugar are just right, there is also a pleasant sourness.