How to Pickle Cabbage For Year-Round Eating

Pickling is an old fashioned way of preserving food that has been around for centuries. It’s a great way to preserve vegetables and even fruit, but it can be hard to find the perfect recipe. This blog post will teach you how to make pickled cabbage in your own home!

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Is Pickled Cabbage the Same as Sauerkraut?

This is a bit of a trick question. Sauerkraut is cabbage that has been pickled and canned, most often the kind you find in glass jars at the supermarket. It’s been heat treated and processed, with an extended shelf life.

Traditional sauerkraut, which is fermented naturally and full of probiotics, is also available. This recipe for pickled cabbage without the need for the extras that go into sauerkraut shows you how to do it with minimal effort.

How Long Does Pickled Cabbage Last?

The ratio of vinegar and water in a pickling brine is critical, especially when canning. People most often use a 50:50 ratio of vinegar to water while cooking. Because this dish requires less preparation time, the vinegar proportion is reduced. This recipe may be kept in the fridge for approximately a week in an airtight container.

This may vary if you use different pickling liquid options like white vinegar or apple cider vinegar as part of the pickling process.

What to serve with Pickled Cabbage?

It’s used in everything from pasta to salads. It’s not uncommon for people to use it with a variety of meals. For example, I’ll add the right amount of vinegar and crunchiness to the potato salad. Otherwise, I’ll use it as a condiment on burgers or as a taco or tortilla wrap topping.

You may also include some grated carrot with the cabbage if you make this dish. It’s a simple way to add more vegetables to your diet as a side dish, almost like a pickled salad. You may also use it as part of a grazing platter or charcuterie board.

How Easy is it to Make?

Now that you have the pickles sliced, you may use them to your heart’s content! What a wonderful time to be alive.

The pickling process begins by pouring the hot brine over the ingredients to begin pickling. The pickling brine combines all of the tastes, resulting in a great condiment. It may be ready in 30 minutes if you’re in a hurry, but I leave it on the counter overnight before transferring it to glass jars and refrigerating it in

Simple Pickled Cabbage Recipe

What you’ll need:

• ½ small head red cabbage, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp. root ginger, sliced
• ½ tsp. mustard seeds
• 1 clove garlic, peeled
• 1 cup (240ml) rice wine vinegar
• ½ tbsp. coconut sugar
• ½ tbsp. salt 

What to do

Place the sliced cabbage, ginger, mustard seeds and garlic in a glass jar. 

Pour the vinegar into a small pot with the sugar and salt and bring to a boil. 

Now pour the warm vinegar into the jar with the cabbage and set aside to cool for 10 minutes. Cover the jar with a lid and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

How long will it keep?

Pickled cabbage will keep for three weeks if kept in a sealed container in the refrigerator. (I wouldn’t recommend freezing it.)