Soaked apples with cabbage recipe

Fruits, vegetables and berries have been soaked in Russia for a long time. Most often, pickled apples with cabbage are made. The process itself is a real culinary mystery. To improve the taste, carrots, various spices and herbs were added to the cabbage. In the old days, it was believed that this dish has love properties.

There are many preservation options, but we will tell you how to cook pickled apples with cabbage using glass jars or enameled dishes. In addition, you will learn some of the secrets of peeling apples, the benefits of the finished product.

Which apples to choose

If you decide to pamper your household with delicious soaked apples with cabbage, you need to take care of choosing the right fruits. After all, not all apples are suitable for such preservation. Most often, autumn and winter varieties are used for urinating, such as Antonovka, Anis, Pepin, Pepin saffron, Golden, Titovka and others.

Unfortunately, when buying apples in a store, we do not know either the name or the timing of the ripening of the fruit. That is why the choice is based on the following parameters:

1. Apples should be sweet and sour, with a pronounced aroma.
2. In addition, the fruit should be firm, not starchy, ripe, but not softened.
3. Apples with damage, wormholes, hints of rot or defects should be discarded immediately.
4. You can use apples of any color, the taste of soaked apples does not deteriorate from this, as long as there is sourness in them.
5. Before peeing with cabbage, apples are kept for 2 weeks in a dark, cool place.

Important details

Purpose of urinating apples with cabbage - get high-quality and tasty preservation while preserving the beneficial properties of the ingredients:

1. For this, salt and sugar are used. Thanks to these spices, the finished product becomes more than just tasty. The main thing is that when urinating, pathogenic microorganisms do not develop in cabbage, although the fermentation process is in full swing.
2. By adding currants, mint, savory or lovage, you can achieve a variety of flavors and aromas to soaked apples with cabbage.
3. Lavrushka, allspice peas, mustard, coriander or caraway seeds have the same effect. If you want to get a spicy snack, you can add horseradish root or cloves of garlic, wild garlic or hot pepper when soaking apples and cabbage.
4. And the leaves of oak, cherry, black currant or grapes will add crunch to the cabbage.
5. To make pickled apples even healthier, peeing isn't complete without orange carrots.

What needs to be prepared

Before starting the process itself, you need to prepare:

1. As a rule, apples with cabbage in wooden tubs are wetted. But today other containers are more preferred. For work, you can use ceramic, porcelain, enameled dishes (no cracks and chips) or glass jars. If we talk about cans, it is better to use five-liter containers, since apples are wet as a whole. You cannot use aluminum dishes for pickled apples with cabbage, since this metal interacts with acids and alkalis, spoils the taste and appearance of products.
2. A wooden circle, a plate or a nylon lid (in jars) is placed on top of the cabbage. They should be slightly less than the diameter of the utensil for dipping apples. Before starting work, they are washed in salt water (a tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water) and poured over with boiling water.
3. You also need to prepare cheesecloth or cotton cloth to cover the dishes.
4. As oppression, you can use a granite stone or an ordinary jar filled with water. The stone must be washed in salt water and scalded.
5. The table, tools and cans for folding vegetables and apples are subjected to the same procedure.

Apple Soaking Recipes

Unfortunately, there are not so many housewives who cook pickled apples with cabbage. Most often this happens due to the fact that they consider it impossible to make a blank without a wooden shell. We will try to dissuade them and tell you how to cook pickled apples with cabbage in any container at hand.

In the bank

In the first recipe for soaked apples, the amount of products is minimal. You need to stock up:

• two kilograms of white cabbage;
• a kilogram of Antonovsky or other sweet and sour apples;
• 300 grams of carrots;
• 60 grams of salt;
• 30 grams of granulated sugar.

Cooking method step by step

Step one - preparing vegetables

1. We clean the forks of white cabbage from the upper leaves and damage, rinse the carrots in cold water and remove the peel. We sort out Antonov apples, remove those that have damage and wash them. We use the products for urinating after the water has drained off.
2. After that, we proceed to shredding. As for the cabbage, each housewife can chop it in her own way: either in strips or in small pieces. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater.
   
   
3. We mix cabbage and carrots with granulated sugar and salt on the table or in a wide basin, rub thoroughly until the juice is released.
   

Step two - peeing process

The first layer is cabbage with carrots, then apples. Fill the voids tightly with vegetable composition. So we put the jar up to the top in layers. The last layer is cabbage and carrots. We cover with a cabbage leaf, insert a nylon cover, bend on it, a towel on top so as not to get dust.

After a while, juice will stand out. It should close the lid. From time to time, you need to pierce the contents of the jar with something sharp and thin, for example, a knitting needle, so that the released gas evaporates.

We put a jar with aromatic apples soaked in cabbage in a cool place, do not forget to pierce. Readiness occurs in 14 days. Bon appetit, everyone!

In a saucepan

We offer a recipe for soaked apples in a saucepan. You will need the following ingredients:

• cabbage - 4 kg;
• apples - 3 kg;
• carrots (medium size) 3 pieces;
• salt - 90 grams;
• sugar - 60 grams.

We will not describe the process of soaking apples in cabbage, since it is identical to the recipe already described. Just note that a cabbage leaf is placed in the pan on the bottom and on top of the workpiece. We put a wooden circle or a large plate on the workpiece, bending on them.

You can store a delicious winter cabbage snack with soaked apples on the balcony or cellar.

An interesting way to soak apples in sauerkraut:

Mistresses on a note

Peeling apples with cabbage is not associated with heat treatment, the whole process occurs naturally. Therefore, all useful substances are stored in the preparation, especially vitamin C, which is so necessary in winter.

Cabbage with apples is rich not only in vitamin C, but also in many others. It has a high content of micro- and macroelements, practically the periodic table. The calorie content of the product is low, so it is quite possible to introduce it into the diet for weight loss.

In addition, soaked apples contain substances that bring tremendous benefits:

1. There is a large amount of pectin, there is even more of it in the preparation than in fresh fruits.
2. During fermentation, lactic acid is formed, which our body needs to suppress disease-causing bacteria in the intestines.
3. Organic acids stimulate the secretion of the gastrointestinal tract.

But despite the benefits, cabbage with soaked apples should be used with caution by people with high acidity of the stomach and ulcerative conditions of the intestines.

Acute diseases of the liver and pancreas are also contraindications.

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