Instant cabbage with hot brine and vinegar

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to pickle instant cabbage? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking instant cabbage with hot brine and vinegar. Wash the carrots thoroughly with a stiff brush to get rid of the earth. Rinse the cabbage and remove the top polluted and wilted leaves. Also remove the upper green leaves, they can give bitterness to the finished cabbage.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the cabbage into pieces, remove the stalk and chop it thinly. This can be done manually or with a special grater or knife. Choose winter cabbage varieties, dense and hard heads. From unripe and loose heads, not tasty and "rag" cabbage will turn out.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater or you can cut them into thin circles. Add it to a bowl with chopped cabbage and mix until the vegetables are evenly distributed. Even if it seems to you that the cabbage is very tough, you do not need to rub it with your hands, you will lose the crunch.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cans, I have four liters, wash thoroughly with baking soda under hot water, and if desired, you can sterilize them. Fill the cans with cabbage to the top, carefully crushing it so that there are no voids.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour water into a saucepan and put it on medium heat. Pour sugar into a saucepan with water.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add coarse, non-iodized salt to the water with sugar and mix everything until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour vinegar into a saucepan, if there is no 9% vinegar, dilute the vinegar essence to the desired consistency. Bring the marinade to a boil.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour the marinade over the cabbage to the very top, it should be completely covered with marinade. Cover the jars with lids and put them in a basin or other container, in case the brine escapes from the jars. Keep the cabbage at room temperature for 12 hours, close the jars with lids. It is necessary to store such cabbage in the refrigerator.

10. Step 9:

    

    Bon appetit.