Cabbage is one of the most healthy vegetables. Recipes for cooking various cabbage dishes are very diverse. Marinating cabbage with garlic is one of the options for cooking vegetables.
Cabbage marinated in this way is obtained more useful and tasty, due to the content in cabbage and garlic of an incredible amount of trace elements necessary for the body.
Of the mineral substances in the composition of pickled cabbage with garlic emit: iron, potassium, iodine, calcium, magnesium, manganese, sodium, phosphorus, fluorine, silicon, boron, zinc, selenium.
What kind of vegetable to choose?
Beijing cabbage is softer and more tender than other types of vegetables, so it marinates faster than white cabbage or broccoli. But red cabbage, when marinated, is not cut in large pieces, like white or Peking: it will be marinated for a very long time and remain tough.
You can even pickle seaweed, as we talk about in this article.
The benefits and harm of such a dish
Cabbage is rich in valuable vitamins of group B, K, PP, C. Contains amino acids, phytoncides, fiber. It is also enriched with minerals: iron, iodine, manganese, copper, cobalt, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium. 100 grams contains: 28 kcal; 1.8 grams of protein; 4.7 carbohydrates; 0.2 fat.
When pickling cabbage is subjected to heat treatment, so the vitamins and minerals are not completely stored in the product. But most of the necessary substances during marinating is not destroyed and benefits the body.
Marinated vegetable with success:
- used for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases;
- effective for the treatment of gastric ulcer, lowering blood pressure, preventing colds;
- with the help of fiber removes cholesterol and other unnecessary substances from the body;
- improves the intestinal microflora;
- helps to cope with vitamin deficiency.
Pickled vegetables are not recommended for diseases of the thyroid gland, gastric or duodenal ulcers. Contraindicated in people with high acidity: vegetable is hard to digest because it contains a lot of fiber.
Cabbage contains tertronic acid, which protects the body from obesity and diabetes. Acid interferes with the processing of sugar and other carbohydrates into adipose tissue, promotes rapid breakdown.
About what is useful and what is harmful, as well as the calorie content of pickled cabbage, said in a separate article.
How to pickle with garlic?
Classic recipe
The classic version of cooking pickled cabbage contains a minimal set of products. Marinated vegetable in a three-liter jar.
For cooking will require:
- cabbage - 1 kg;
- garlic - one small head.
For the marinade:
- water for marinade - 1 l .;
- vinegar - 2 tsp;
- salt and sugar 2 tbsp. spoons.
- Prepare vegetables:
- Remove the upper leaves and rinse well, divide the head into sections and cut the stalk.
- Peel the garlic.
- Chop cabbage, grate garlic.
- Stir the vegetables and fold tightly into the jar.
- Prepare the marinade: boil a liter of water with the added salt, sugar and vinegar in an enamel saucepan.
- Pour hot marinade vegetables in a jar and close tightly with a lid (we told about cooking cabbage in a hot marinade here).
- Marinate at room temperature for three days, then put in the fridge.
- Serve on the table, pre-seasoned with vegetable oil.
How else you can marinate cabbage in a jar so that it is crisp is written here, and you can find the recipes for pickled cabbage in jars for the winter here.
We offer to watch the video on how to cook pickled cabbage with garlic according to the classic recipe:
Fast cooking
It is convenient in that the cabbage is marinated in this way in just a short period of time, and therefore it is possible to serve the finished product to the table in a couple of hours.
For quick cooking delicious pickled cabbage will need:
- one young head of cabbage;
- three cloves of garlic;
- one large carrot.
For the marinade:
- litere of water;
- a tablespoon of salt and sugar;
- acetic acid (9% solution) one teaspoon;
- four peppercorns and two bay leaves;
- vegetable oil -100 ml.
Cooking process:
- Vegetables cut into small fine straws, garlic through a fine grater. Mix everything and put in a glass container.
- Cook the marinade, boil for no longer than three minutes and put to cool.
- Pour the cooled brine vegetables. Cover the jar with a lid and leave to stand at room temperature for up to two hours.
Ready-made snack to store no more than four days, and before eating add herbs and onions, fill with sunflower oil.
We offer to watch a video on how to cook pickled cabbage with instant garlic:
Different recipe variations
With carrots, beets
When pickling cabbage goes well with carrots, beets. These vegetables complement the dish with vitamins and healthy substances. Give an unusual sweet taste and delicate aroma. Beet juice gives the billet a nice pinkish color, which eventually becomes brighter and causes appetite.
The recipe for cooking cabbage with beets is similar to the classic method of harvesting.
Cooking method:
- Grate beets on a grater with large cells and blanch in boiling water.
- Then after five minutes, put in a colander, cool and mix with cabbage.
- If you add more carrots to the cabbage, you get a golden - yellowish tint and a very pleasant taste.
A delicious recipe for marinated instant cabbage with beets can be found here, and how to pickle cabbage with carrots and other vegetables is written in our material.
With butter
Adding butter to pickled cabbage is a great way to increase the usefulness of the product. The oil is added in the preparation of brine.
We offer to watch a video on how to cook pickled cabbage with garlic and butter:
With apple cider vinegar
There are a lot of recipes for making marinade, among them pickled cabbage with apple vinegar. Such the dish prepares very quickly, it will be possible to serve at the table in 5 hours.
Apple cider vinegar is added to the marinade at the final stage.
Cabbage is much tastier with sugar added, but if necessary, the marinade is prepared without sugar: add only salt to the brine. Then the taste of the dish will be a little different, but all the same, the preparation turns out tasty and crispy.
Serving dishes
Marinated cabbage, seasoned with vegetable oil, is used as a separate dish. Also ideally combined with any cereals and potatoes. Recommended as a side dish for rice, porridge, pasta. From the blank you can make a delicious vinaigrette. When serving, add to the cabbage chopped onions and parsley with dill.
Pickled cabbage with garlic is a very healthy dish. It is an excellent addition to meat, and fish, and many other dishes. Any types of cabbage are marinated - both white cabbage, which is simply created for pickling, and red, peking and cauliflower.
