Simple Sauerkraut
Photo: Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fermented food recipes that you can prepare at home with only a few basic ingredients. Includes the most popular Sauerkraut
Ingredients
- 4 or 5 heads of red or green cabbage (shredded)
- ¼ cup sea salt
- 3 or 4 heads of cabbage (shredded)
- 2 or 3 apples (peeled and coarsely chopped)
- 3 tablespoon caraway seeds
- 3 tablespoon Juniper berries (crushed)
- ¼ cup sea salt
- 12 cups fresh tomatoes (chopped)
- 2 cups chilies (seeded and chopped (Jalapeños and Serranos are good choices))
- ¼ cup dried oregano
- 2 tablespoon cumin
- 8 garlic cloves (chopped)
- 2 onions (chopped)
- ¼ cup sea salt
- 1 gallon 16 cups pickling cucumbers, nonwaxed
- 2 bunches of fresh dill
- 16 cloves garlic (whole and peeled)
- 3 tablespoon pickling spices (peppercorns, mustard seeds, bay leaves, cloves)
- 5 or 6 tablespoon sea salt
- 2 heads of Napa cabbage
- 2 Daikon radishes (peeled and sliced)
- 5 carrots (peeled and sliced)
- 1 bunch of scallions (sliced)
- A 2-inch piece of fresh ginger (minced)
- 16 garlic cloves (chopped)
- ¼ cup fish sauce
- ½ cup chili paste (to taste)
- 1 ¼ cups sea salt
- 4 large or 6 medium beets (peeled and chopped roughly)
- 5 tablespoon sea salt
- 10 lb parsnips (peeled and julienned)
- ¼ cup sea salt
- 16 peaches (cored and chopped coarsely)
- 2 cups raisins
- 2 cups pecans (chopped)
- 2 ½ tablespoon sea salt
- Juice of 5 lemons
- 4 onions (finely chopped)
- 4 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 4 hot peppers (fresh or dried, chopped)
- 4 apples (cored and diced)
- 4 cups cauliflower florets
- 4 carrots (peeled and diced)
- 8 green onions (sliced thinly)
- 3 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 8 tablespoon sea salt
Instructions
shred
- Place the shredded cabbage little by little in your fermentation jar, pounding it vigorously and sprinkling some with the sea salt as you go.
add
- Make sure the mixture fills the jar up to no more than 1 inch below the top (because of the expansion), adding more if needed, and that the extracted water covers the vegetables entirely. If not, create a brine of 2 tablespoons sea salt to 4 cups water and add it to the cabbage.
press
- Press the vegetables and keep them under the brine by placing a plate or a lid on top weighted down by a rock or a jug of water. Cover with a clean towel if needed to keep out fruit flies.
place
- Place the fermentation jar in a warm spot in your kitchen and allow the sauerkraut to ferment for 7 to 10 days.
check
- Check on it from time to time to be sure that the brine covers the vegetables and to remove any mold that may form on the surface.
refrigerate
- A good way to know when it’s ready is to taste it during the fermentation process and move it to the refrigerator when you’re satisfied with the taste.
Nutrition
- Serving size
- 1 serving
- Calories
- 227 kcal
- Fat
- 1 g
- Saturated fat
- 0.3 g
- Unsaturated fat
- 0.4 g
- Sodium
- 7237 mg
- Carbohydrates
- 53 g
- Fiber
- 23 g
- Sugar
- 29 g