Cabbage with peppercorns Cabbage is useful in all its conditions, both fresh and sour. Today kvass cabbage in a fairly cheerful company: horseradish, hot pepper, carrots and beets. Carrots and beets will dress the cabbage in a colorful outfit, and horseradish and hot pepper will give it a juicy delicacy. Moreover, cabbage will in time assume a beautiful burgundy shade, this beet will give its color. Choose the right cabbage for sourdough. It should be a head of flattened shape. In the cut, the cabbage will be white, crispy and sweet in taste. A small amount of cabbage can be salted in a glass, faience, ceramic or enamelware. The main thing is to make sure that there are no chips and cracks on the enamel. Sour cabbage needs an active fermentation process, so it should be brewed on a young moon, preferably on a 5-6 lunar day. That's why it will be crispy. According to the folk note, it is desirable to have cabbage on the men's days of the week - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Take care that the cabbage does not dry out, was kept in the brine all the time. And yet, sauerkraut can serve as a barometer. If suddenly she absorbs the brine into herself - wait for frost. And vice versa, if filled with additional juice - there will be a thaw. Who is interested in this recipe for leaven of cabbage - try it. Sometimes you need to change the usual rules! Make a change in the recipe for cooking familiar foods. Good luck!
Ingredients:- White cabbage 1700 g
- Horseradish root 30 g
- Pepper spicy 1 pc.
- Carrot 1 pc.
- Garlic 3 denticles
- Salt 30 g
- Sugar 25 g
- Water 1000 ml
- Beets 1 pc.
- Step 1 To ferment cabbage, you need to take quality white cabbage, carrots, beets, horseradish, garlic, hot pepper; water salt and sugar.
- Step 2 Prepare the vegetables: wash, clean. Cut the beets into half-rings. Carrot chopped large on grater. Garlic chop fine. Pepper thoroughly cleaned of seeds, cut off the partitions, wash under cold water, chop finely.
- Step 3 Put the beet into the bottom of the pan.
- Step 4 Root the horseradish root. Cut into pieces and grind in a blender (you can use a grater).
- Step 5 Head cabbage to peel off the top leaves. To cut in half. Shred cabbage.
- Step 6 Add the prepared vegetables: carrots, hot peppers, horseradish. Stir, slightly primed cabbage.
- Step 7 Add the cabbage with the vegetables on top of the beets in the pan.
- Step 8 Prepare the brine beforehand: boil 1 liter of water, add 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 dessert spoonful of sugar. Stir. Give a few minutes to puff. Strain the brine through gauze. Cool it down.
- Step 9 Pour cabbage with vegetables and pickle.
- Step 10 Cover the cabbage with a saucer. From above put the load, which will seal the cabbage, the brine completely must cover it. Leave in a warm place to complete the fermentation process. The process of leaven of cabbage can take place in 3-5 days (depends on temperature). Must taste cabbage. My cabbage stood for 5 days (the apartment is not very hot).
- Step 11 Every day, remove the formed foam, pierce cabbage with a wooden stick to the bottom in several places to release the resulting gases during fermentation. Otherwise - cabbage will become bitter with an unpleasant smell.
- Step 12 Put the cabbage in a refrigerator (or on a cold balcony) to stop the fermentation process. Serve cabbage as an independent dish, as a snack for vegetables in the post. Season with fragrant sunflower oil. Add the chopped onion.