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For some reason, there is an opinion that cauliflower is more suitable for making soups, casseroles. Many chefs fry this vegetable in batter. But these cooking methods should not be dispensed with. The vegetable can be pickled for the winter, and there are a great many canning recipes.
The taste of tomatoes with cauliflower marinated for the winter will surprise even fastidious gourmets. The main condition is to choose ripe vegetables. The cauliflower should have dense buds and a color that matches the variety. Cabbage stumps must be cut out. Just look at how delicious a jar of pickled vegetables looks!
Variations on the theme of cauliflower
We bring to your attention several options for pickling tomatoes and cauliflower for the winter. They differ in composition and have some differences in preparation.
Recipe number 1 - with ordinary tomatoes
To marinate vegetables, prepare the following ingredients:
- ripe tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- inflorescences of cabbage - 0.3 kg;
- sweet pepper - 1 piece;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- greens - dill, parsley and currant leaves - 1 bunch each;
- table vinegar - 3 large spoons;
- granulated sugar - 120 grams;
- salt - 30 grams;
- black pepper - 5 peas;
- ground hot pepper - on the tip of a knife;
- cloves - 5 buds.
How to pickle
Before doing canning, we will prepare jars and lids in advance. We rinse them thoroughly with hot water and soda, then rinse them in clean water. After that, we sterilize over steam for at least 15-20 minutes.
Attention! To close the workpiece for the winter, you can use both tin covers and screw ones.
And now comes the important moment of preparing vegetables:
- First, we deal with cauliflower. We wash it and divide it into inflorescences.
- Pour clean water (1 liter) into a saucepan and add two tablespoons of vinegar. When the water boils, add the cabbage inflorescences and cook for 15 minutes. Do not use aluminum dishes for cooking cauliflower, since the substances that make up it react with the metal.
- Put the leaves of parsley, dill, black currant and half of the garlic indicated in the recipe in sterile jars.
- We thoroughly wash the bell peppers, cut them in half, select the seeds and remove the partitions. Cut the peppers into strips and add to the jar.
There should be no pepper seeds in pickled cauliflower with tomatoes for the winter. - We take the boiled inflorescences out of the pan and put them in a jar.
- We wash and dry the tomatoes. In each tomato, in and around the stalk, we make several punctures with a toothpick.
Choose small tomatoes. The best varieties are "Raketa", "Cream", "Pepper". - We fill the jar to the very top. Put the rest of the garlic between the layers of vegetables.
- When the container is full, let's take care of the marinade. We cook it in a liter of water, adding all the spices indicated in the recipe. Pour the boiling marinade into the vegetables and spin immediately. We turn the banks over and put them under a fur coat or blanket.
After a day, we put canned tomatoes with cabbage and sweet peppers into the basement. Such preparation for the winter is suitable for meat or fish dishes not only on weekdays, but also on holidays. We are sure that your guests will like cabbage with tomatoes, and they will also ask for a recipe.
Recipe number 2 - with cherry
Advice! If you like savory snacks, you can use cherry tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes.
What we need:
- cabbage inflorescences - 1 head of cabbage;
- cherry - 350 grams;
- garlic and black peppercorns - 5 each;
- lavrushka - 1 leaf;
- vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- iodized salt - 1 tablespoon;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 tablespoons;
- refined vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- cherry and black currant leaves.
Cooking rules
We will marinate inflorescences with tomatoes for the winter a little differently than in the previous recipe:
- We scald cherry and currant leaves with boiling water, and put them on the bottom of a steamed jar.
- Then we put the washed cherry tomatoes and pieces of inflorescences. And you need to stuff it well, because after filling with brine, the contents of the container will decrease.
- Fill with clean boiling water, cover the jars with lids and leave them for half an hour. If, for some reason, you do not fit into the allotted time, you do not need to worry.
- After we drain the water, add cloves of garlic, black peppercorns and cloves to the jars.
- And now we will prepare the marinade. Pour a liter of water into a saucepan, add salt, sugar and lavrushka. 10 minutes after boiling, pour in sunflower oil and table vinegar.
- Pour cabbage inflorescences with cherry tomatoes with boiling marinade and close immediately.
Attention! Check the tightness of the covers by turning them upside down.
When the jars are cool, store them in the basement or refrigerator.
Recipe number 3 - with mustard
If you first decided to pickle cabbage with tomatoes for the winter, then this recipe is very useful. After all, the ingredients are indicated for a 700 gram jar.
So, prepare:
- 100 grams of cauliflower;
- two sweet peppers;
- two tomatoes;
- one carrot;
- two cloves of garlic;
- half a teaspoon of mustard seeds;
- two bay leaves;
- three peas of allspice;
- 75 grams of granulated sugar;
- 45 grams of salt;
- 20 ml of 9% table vinegar.
Important! For marinating for the winter according to this recipe, you must choose long, fleshy tomatoes with dense skin.
Stages of work
- After washing the vegetables, divide the cauliflower into small inflorescences and cut the tomatoes in half. Cut the carrots into circles no thicker than one and a half centimeters. Bulgarian pepper - in longitudinal stripes.
- Put lavrushka, garlic, mustard and allspice into a sterile 700-gram jar.
- Then we fill the container with tomatoes, inflorescences and bell peppers. Pour in clean boiling water, put a lid on top and set aside for a quarter of an hour.
- We pour the liquid into a saucepan, sugar, salt. 10 minutes after boiling, add table vinegar.
- Fill cauliflower with tomatoes with boiling marinade and immediately seal.
- We put the jar upside down, cover it with a towel and leave it in this position until it cools down.
Vegetables pickled for the winter keep well even in the kitchen cabinet on the bottom shelf.
An interesting assortment of pickled cauliflower with various vegetables:
Conclusion
As you can see, conservation is not a big deal. Moreover, the options for pickling for the winter are completely different. Choose a recipe that suits your family's taste. Then at any time you can diversify your diet by serving delicious and healthy appetizers to meat or fish dishes.