Red cabbage is a tasty and healthy vegetable. In this article we will tell you how to cook it in Korean traditions. Warn: it will be hot.
You will learn what this dish is and what are the features of its preparation. We will tell you about the benefits and harms of red cabbage in Korean, as well as about what contraindications exist from eating this dish.
We will share with you delicious recipes for preparing red cabbage, as well as provide you with a useful video for clarity.
What it is?
Red cabbage in Korean style is a spicy product cooked with various hot spices, which can be eaten in its pure form, served as a snack or added to salads.
Cooking features
The main distinctive feature of cabbage in Korean - keeping it in spices and vinegar. This process adds sharpness to it. Someone pours it with brine, someone just pours vinegar, falls asleep with sugar and salt and lets it brew.
Benefit and harm
Red cabbage contains many vitamins and minerals, for example, vitamins A, C, vitamins of group B, E, K, PP; minerals Fe, C, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Se, Zn and P, moreover, vitamin A is 4 times more, and C is 2 times more than in albumen. (what is the difference between red cabbage and white cabbage, we told in our article).
But there are also contraindications: individual intolerance, diseases of the digestive system, gastric ulcer, breastfeeding, red cabbage can also not be eaten for children up to a year.
Moreover, it is necessary to take into account that most of the dishes described here are very sharp, so they should not be used by people with problems with the digestive system.
Details about what the benefits of red cabbage and the possible harm from its use, read here.
This recipe at home
Cabbage cooked with this recipe will be really spicy. In addition to cabbage in the recipe includes carrots.
Ingredients:
- Red cabbage is a medium-sized head of cabbage (2 kg is needed).
- Medium carrots - 4 pieces.
- Garlic - 2 pieces (not cloves, namely heads!).
- Water - 1 liter.
- Vinegar 9% - 1 tablespoon.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Vegetable oil - 1 cup.
- Salt - 3 and a half tablespoons.
- Bay leaves - 3 pieces of medium size.
- Hot chili pepper (red) - 1/2 tsp.
Cooking:
- Rinse the cabbage and remove from it the top and frail leaves, finely chop.
- Coarse grate carrots.
- Grind the garlic.
- Mix the ingredients and put them in a salad bowl or pan.
- Mix water, sugar, butter, salt, bay leaves and chilli, boil.
- Add vinegar and pour the resulting pickle cabbage.
- Now you need to leave the cabbage in brine for several hours (until the brine has cooled completely).
Salad
This recipe is easy to turn into a salad recipe: just add some sesame seeds to cabbage and carrots (you can also use sea kale if you are an amateur). You can add onion fried in olive oil. In a word - in the basic recipe you can add anything that will be well combined to your taste.
We offer for viewing a video with a recipe for preparing red cabbage salad:
Snack
The original recipe itself can be used as a snack.. Serve it to the potatoes, you can also to meat and fish.
Kimchi
In Russia, kim-chi is usually made from Chinese cabbage, but we have found a modified recipe.
A warning: this cabbage is even sharper than cooked according to the basic recipe!
Ingredients:
- Red cabbage - 1 forks.
- Hot red pepper (pods) - 4-6 pieces.
- Sugar - 3 tablespoons.
- Salt - 1.5 tablespoons.
- Vinegar 9% - 1 tablespoon.
- Garlic - 5 cloves.
- Home adjika - 1 tablespoon.
- Sweet ground paprika - 1 tablespoon.
Cooking:
- Rinse the forks, remove the upper leaves.
- Coarse chop the cabbage.
- Pour it into a large pot.
- Pour water into another pot, bring water to a boil and pour into a salad bowl, add salt and sugar to the water (read the following 4 points: by the eighth, the water should still be boiling. It is worthwhile to build the correct sequence of actions).
- Cut the garlic into slices.
- Wash the pepper and remove the stalks and most of the seeds from them (it is they who give the red pepper such a burning taste). Cut the pepper into slices.
Tip: choose how many seeds to leave, based on personal preferences.
- In a saucepan with cabbage, cut into large chunks, you need to add hot red pepper, garlic and paprika.
- Stir everything and add a tablespoon of vinegar. Pour boiling water with sugar and salt.
- Stir and cover again. Cabbage should stay in the pan for almost a day to cool completely.
Now you need to decompose the cabbage with the marinade into glass jars sterilized with boiling water, tightly screwed with clean covers, check for leaks and leave the banks in a dark, cool place for three days. Only after that you can try the resulting dish!
Important: if you cook with this recipe, you get about 2.7 liters of cabbage.
Marinated
This recipe is different in that the cabbage is prepared very quickly - you can try it the very next day.
Ingredients:
- Red cabbage - 1 piece.
- Carrots - 5 pieces of medium size.
- Garlic - 2 heads (heads, not cloves).
- Beets - 1 piece.
- Chile - 2/3 tsp.
- Sugar - 1/2 cup.
- Water - 1.5 liters.
- Salt - 3 tablespoons.
- Pepper - 10 pea.
- Vegetable oil - a glass.
- Vinegar 9% - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking:
- Thinly chop cabbage.
- Grate carrots and beets on a large grater.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Mix the cabbage with carrots and beets and sprinkle with red pepper, put in glass bottles (three-liter) and pour.
- Mix water, salt, pepper, sugar, vegetable oil and boil. Wait until the brine is no longer so hot, but not yet cooled.
- Pour the vinegar into the pickle.
- Fill the cabbage with the resulting mixture and pierce the cabbage with a wooden stick or skewer so that the brine reaches the bottom.
- Cover dishes with gauze or a rag.
- Leave for a day at room temperature.
We offer to get acquainted with the recipe of pickled red cabbage:
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How to serve?
Most of the dishes described here go well as a snack. They can be laid out on a plate to the main dish, or put on a separate small flat dish of square shape. You can also put cabbage in a small bowl..
Serve can be sprinkled with chia seeds or sesame seeds on top, or by putting a small sprig of parsley or other greens. We hope you find our recipes useful. Good luck in cooking!