Classic sauerkraut

About recipe

I want to offer you a simple classic recipe for making sauerkraut cabbage, as our grandmothers and moms did. Cooking will not take much time, but we will get a tasty and healthy vitamin salad. Sauerkraut according to the classic recipe is always a good snack, salad or pie filling. You will need cabbage, carrots, salt and sugar.

• Required ingredients::

• White cabbage
  1 kilogram
• Carrots
  1 pc
• Salt
  to taste
• Sugar
  to taste

• How to make

• 1. To make the cabbage tasty, you need to carefully select the head of cabbage. It should be white, sweet. There are varieties with bitterness, they are not suitable for fermentation. Wash the cabbage and remove the upper leaves. Peel the carrots.
• 2. With a sharp knife or chopper, chop the cabbage.
• 3. Add finely chopped carrots to it.
• 4. Salt to taste, add a couple of pinches of sugar for better fermentation. Mix well.
• 5. Take a liter jar, squeeze the cabbage very strongly. Press with your hands so that the released juice comes out on top of the cabbage. Cover with a plate, but not with a tight-fitting lid, the cabbage should breathe. Put the jar on a plate, only if the jar is very full, the juice may leak. And keep warm for a couple of days.
• 6. Check the readiness of cabbage to taste. Sauerkraut is most often served with onions and vegetable oil.

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