Winter cabbage with garlic and beetroot

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to marinate cabbage for the winter with beets? Prepare all the products according to the list. Try not to reduce the volume of spices. Take white vinegar, table vinegar, 9 percent. But if you are used to making blanks with a different vinegar, take it.

2. Step 2:

   

   I personally don't wash cabbage, I just remove all the upper leaves from it. In dense heads, usually the entire interior remains clean. Cut the cabbage into four pieces.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut each of the four parts into smaller plates. Although you can just cut the quarters into 2-4 pieces. And then disassemble them with your hands into separate sheets.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the garlic and cut it into plates.

5. Step 5:

   

   Wash and peel the beets. Cut it into arbitrary pieces. You can use straws, slices, cubes, plates, cubes. I boiled my beetroot, but I don't need to do that. Beets are added here raw. And it is advisable to take a bright color.

7. Step 6:

   

   Transfer the cabbage to the bottom of a pre-washed and dried jar. It is better to sterilize it for reliability. Fill the jar by a quarter.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put a layer of beetroot on top of the cabbage. Alternate the cabbage and beet layers until you fill the whole jar to the top. Tamp the vegetables with your hand, but try not to press the cabbage too hard.

9. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the marinade. To do this, let the water boil. Add salt and all the spices to it. Let it boil a little, for about five minutes, so that the spices give off their flavor. Remove the marinade from the stove and pour vinegar into it. Mix it up.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour the hot marinade over the cabbage in the jar. Pour up to the shoulders. Wait for the marinade to cool completely. Then close the jar with a nylon lid and put it in the refrigerator. After a few days, you can take the first sample. You can determine the readiness of cabbage by changing its color. The more raspberry it is, the better and tastier it is.