Cabbage salad without sterilization for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a cabbage salad without sterilization for the winter? Prepare the products. It is better to make a salad of white cabbage for the winter in the season of its ripening. For a salad, well-ripe and tight cabbage heads are needed. Then the salad will turn out delicious, the cabbage will remain juicy and crispy. Remove the top leaves from the head, they are usually dirty and dry, cut it into two parts, remove the stalk. Finely chop the cabbage into strips.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and cut into strips. Or grate it on a coarse grater. In general, the easiest way is to chop cabbage and carrots with a food processor, this will speed up the process of making salad.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel and finely chop the garlic cloves with a knife. Put all the vegetables in an enameled saucepan, mix.

5. Step 4:

   

   Prepare the marinade for the salad. Pour clean filtered cold water into another saucepan, add sugar, salt, vegetable oil, bay leaf and black pepper. Put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil and boil the marinade for five minutes over medium heat.

6. Step 5:

   

   Pour the resulting marinade into the vegetable mixture, also transfer the spices from the marinade into a saucepan with vegetables. Turn on the heat and boil the vegetable mixture over medium heat for 30 minutes. Then add the vinegar and cook for another 5 minutes. Periodically stir the vegetables so that they cook evenly. At the same time, rinse the soda cans and sterilize them in a water bath or in an oven, in your usual way. Also wash and sterilize the lids.

7. Step 6:

   

   It is better to take a small amount of cans so that after opening the salad is not stored for a long time. Spread the finished salad over sterilized jars to the shoulders, tightly tamping the vegetables. Pour the marinade into the contents of the jars so that it covers the salad, and immediately close or roll them up. Turn the jars upside down and wrap them in a blanket. Leave in this form until completely cooled. Then put it away for storage in a cold place.