Recipes How to cook sauerkraut with cucumbers and mushrooms

How pleasant, when the monotony of the dinner table with almost daily cabbage, "suddenly" transform the same dish of cabbage, but with cucumbers. And everything - from the same container. It is doubly good. And how to prepare a surprise for the family or guests?

The hostess should prepare in advance a strong pickling cucumbers. To do this, sorted cucumbers are placed in a barrel, at the bottom of which lay a dry salt at the rate of 300 grams per 10 kg of cucumbers. Salt close spices (dill is recommended - 300 g). When the barrel is filled with cucumbers, its close with a napkin, a circle, place the goods and pour strong brine: salt - 560 g, water - 7 liters.

There are also more robust recipe: salt, 900 g per 10 kg of cucumbers and brine make a 9-percent ratio, ie 600 g of salt per 7 liters of water. These methods pickles are good, where harvesting had to deal early on weather and climatic conditions.

If the cucumbers are ready, you can begin the process of their connection with cabbage. As always, the bottom of the barrel in the prepared lining of green cabbage leaves and put two buckets of chopped cabbage and carrots, and on them - a bucket of pickles, and then again a bucket of cabbage and a bucket of cucumbers. The process is repeated until the filling barrels, and concludes with cabbage and green cabbage leaves, overlapping circle and cargo.

By the way, sauerkraut with pickled mushrooms - a great filling for a family holiday pie. What kind of mushrooms mixed with cabbage? Very good use of autumn (real) mushrooms - this is the author's recommendation. But you can use other mushrooms of your choice. And yet - if finished with pickled cabbage, mushrooms, mixed with boiled rice and chunks of meat, then it will be excellent for filling Kurnik (large round cake with a hole in the center). Such pies - a favorite treat of the steppe of Russia.

A cabbage with Pasternak cook very, very simple: salt, as usual, but as a spice, except carrots, parsnips add more. Carrots and parsnips thoroughly pulverized and added in peretirke it with salt. And here's the recipe a cabbage: cabbage prepared - 10 kg, carrot - 600 g, fresh parsnips - 300 g, salt - 200 g

There are moments in the life of the mistress, when the table would like to submit sauerkraut, and her yet. What? Three days before the event so the cabbage can be cooked relatively quickly and simply. Cabbage is cleaning-hot, cut the cabbages into slices, then blanch in boiling water. The broth and cabbage separately cooled. Then the cabbage firmly laid in the dish, adding salt, sugar, pepper, bay leaf and vinegar. On top is covered with a napkin, a circle and the load. Extend cabbage poured cold broth. Well, as already reported, after three days of cabbage will be ready for use.

Recipe for quick cooking of cabbage with vinegar is as follows: cabbage - 10 kg, salt - 10 g sugar - 20 grams of pepper - 21 pea, laurel leaves - 13 leaves, Vinegar - 20 g, broth - 1 liter.

And finally a recipe for lovers of experiments with sauerkraut. Cabbage with sugar: prepared cabbage - 10 kg, carrot - 300 g sugar - 90 g, salt - 180 g.

Bon Appetit!