Benefits of red cabbage

Cabbage is a two-year vegetable crop, a cruciferous family. There are a huge number of types of cabbage, among which you can distinguish the standard white, red-heeled, broccoli, kohlrabi, Beijing and so on.





Today we would like to talk to you about red cabbage, or, as they say, purple or red cabbage.





It is best to use it in late autumn, as well as in winter and spring. It is not suitable for salting, and it does not really need it. Depending on the acidity of the soil, cabbage can have a color of varying degrees of saturation: from dark burgundy to bluish green.

Among other things, red cabbage has more vitamin C than its standard, white cousin. Things are also good with carotene and potassium.

Purple cabbage is great for making salads, side dishes, soups. Besides, it can be baked.





If you want to keep the original color of cabbage in the dish, add a little vinegar or sour fruit to it.

Purple cabbage salad

The ingredients

• chopped-up
• several cherry tomatoes cut into halves
• pulp
• carrot
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp honey
• 0.25 tsp salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Put the arugula leaves in a large bowl with red cabbage, tomatoes and berries.
   
   
   
2. Place lemon juice, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper in a bottle with a tight lid. Shake the bottle well to mix the contents.
3. Pour the salad with bottle sauce.
   
   
   

In addition, cabbage is good as a snack under a marinade:

Red cabbage in a spicy marinade

The ingredients

• kalehead
• salt
• 150ml red wine vinegar
• 100 ml of red dry wine (preferably Cabernet)
• 1 liter of water
• 80g sugar
• 1 dried chili pepper at will
• cinnamon
• badi
• 3 stars of carnations
• 1 tsp black pepper peas
• 1 tsp juniper berries at will

Preparation

1. Wash the cabbage and put it in a deep bowl. Sprinkle salt and stir, leave to infuse for 2 hours.
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2. Put all the other ingredients in a pan and bring to a boil, stir to dissolve the sugar. Cool off.
3. Wash the cabbage for excess salt under running water. Put it in a jar and put it in a marinade. Cover the jar with a lid and leave in a cool place for 3 days. After that, cabbage can be consumed.
   
   
   

And if you want to make your dish more interesting or memorable, red will help you. cabbage. It will paint rice, potatoes and other side dishes well. In addition, it changes the color of the eggshell.

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As you can see, using red cabbage in the kitchen can not be worse than standard, white. The taste and appearance will only benefit. If you plan to cook something fresh, she will cope perfectly!