question of how slaw, by no means idle.If you do it right, it will look great in any dish.One has only to stock up a good sharp knife, artless technique to master shredder - and more!
How useful cabbage
Before you go to practice, is to tell a little about this wonderful vegetable that is used in the cuisines of different countries since that time.Growing sprouts virtually around the globe in a temperate climate.Its beneficial properties have long been studied, and the juice of cabbage leaves are used in folk medicine.It contains large amounts of vitamin U, which is also called methylmethionine.This material provides excellent protection for the gastric mucosa and intestines from ulcers and various inflammations.The sprouts are also present:
- vitamin C (ascorbigen);
- pantothenic and folic acid;
- calcium, phosphorus, and potassium;
- trace elements: manganese, aluminum, iron, zinc.
Also cabbages have different sugar.This fructose, glucose and sucrose.They are readily soluble, well absorbed by the human body.This vegetable is good suppresses inflammation, is a stimulant of the metabolism, and even helps with certain types of pain.
How to choose a head for shredding
So how slaw?First you need to choose a good head.If you are cooking soup or just decided to put out it will suit any cabbage.But if you want to pickle and ferment it, then you need to choose a head of thick white.This is where the greatest number of juices that are so essential in pickling.
upper leaves should be removed.There is no need to wash the cabbage.Suffice it to remove dark spots, if any.
then be cut into two parts, cabbage, and if it is large, then four.Shred it is desirable from the stalks, the leaves are not broke.It is recommended that every piece of cabbage cut along the veins, so that you get beautiful pieces of approximately 6-7 centimeters.When you cut it, then remember that this should be done across.Then the leaves stand out more juice that is so necessary in the leaven.
What should be the size of cabbage strips
Cut strips should be part of head about 3 centimeters.If you make them thicker, the cabbage can not leaven good.If, on the contrary, much grind the sheets, when fermented, they quickly become flabby.So it is better to choose a middle ground.
Do not take for fermented cabbage with green leaves, they are suitable for soup and main dishes.If cabbage is dried up, she did not fit, it is best to put it on the cabbage rolls.
Choosing the right knife
First, let's look at how a knife slaw, unless there are special devices in the home.You will need only two items.This wide cutting board and a sharp knife with a long blade and wide and stable grip.
Put the prepared part of the cabbages, held her left hand to the board.Keep your fingers is not in the line of cut.And begins to work.Surely you've seen in many culinary programs as well slaw.The tip of the knife at the same time does not have to break away from the cutting board.Try it, it is not difficult.
abuts the tip of a knife in a cutting board and make the first cut.Then, without taking his knife, we move it to the left and make another cut.And so that's movements continue - the tip of the knife is always on the cutting board, and the blade itself moves slightly.So ends the process.Do not forget about safety and take care not to injure hands.
various devices
Skilled craftsmen thought of cooking the question as slaw, even those who do not have any skills.And for beginners invented various devices that facilitate this process.Due to the successful design of the blades housewives do not even have to think about what should be the thickness of the strip.Everything has been provided in advance.The instructions shown in detail how slaw with a special knife.
There are two successful mechanical devices for shredding cabbage.
- Knife skobets.
- slicer with one or more blades.
the latter makes a larger thread, and with a knife-Skobtsov can get a finer structure.As slaw special knife?Take the left hand part of head and begins to cut.In the vegetable cutter, respectively, rub.Quick and convenient, the time the process takes only a few minutes.
Electric assistants
can also combine slaw.Modern devices have special knives for this purpose, which regulate the thickness of the gap.So you yourself can determine how wide you want the cabbage strips.Optionally, after making the traditional cutting.In a food processor can shred cabbage squares or more three-dimensional figures.
For those who frequently engaged in cooking, invented electric slicers.With it, the question of how slaw, did not arise, because everything is done very easily.This machine (some call it Spicer) can be easily adjusted to any desired mode - for soup, salads, main dishes, sauerkraut, and so on.
Tasty, crunchy, Useful!
So all the methods we developed and now we can get down to business.Shinkuem cabbage in winter for two recipes - classic and original.
So, take a dense white head 3-4 kilos, cut it into pieces and shinkuem.Some kinds of cabbage gives bitterness at the very cobs.If you do not like the taste, it is suggested not dorezat leaves up to the cobs, leave three or four centimeters.Also, on a coarse grater shred carrots - Take three or four medium root.For every kilogram of cabbage will need one tablespoon of salt coarse.We shift prepared carrots and cabbage in a deep bowl, sleeps with salt and begin to grind the mixture of hands so that she let the juice.
then spread it all in the bank, periodically holding a spoon to mix lying tightly.On the day we leave the kitchen - will turn sour cabbage at room temperature for about 2-3 days.Do not forget to pierce it with a wooden stick in a few places in the morning and evening to the gases.If the juice is too much - Mould it, and if on the contrary, will not be enough, add the usual boiled water.When you realize that cabbage ferment, to submit a bank in the refrigerator.
This recipe is good because it is not necessary to add the vinegar.Therefore, this sauerkraut is recommended for both children and the elderly, and the sick.
Beautiful red
But the original recipe for pickling cabbage.She turns pink saturated by adding beet.To do this, the cabbage shinkuem the combine, and try to make the pieces as large as possible.Also take a head weighing 3-4 kilograms and one beet, which is cut into thin slices.Then laid layers of shredded cabbage, beet slices alternating.Rammed tightly is not necessary.Fans of sharpness can add 5-6 cloves of garlic, pepper, bay leaf.
then prepare the marinade.We need: half a liter of water, a cup of 9 percent vinegar, half a cup of sugar and the same amount of salt.Boil marinade for 5 minutes, it is removed, to the side and give little cool.Fill cabbage hot syrup, cover with a lid and leave at room temperature for 2-3 days.During this time the cabbage is well saturated not only with marinade, and beet juice, and acquire a beautiful deep pink color.
Now you know how to shred the cabbage, so it's time to learn our recipes.
