Cabbage, as a pro-people vegetable in this season, has a sweet taste and is rich in a lot of nutrients, which is particularly cheap in our place. And in life, there are many ways to cook cabbage, but it's usually fried or stewed more, so what, here I'll bring you an old recipe for spicy cabbage, you can make your own Korean drama sidekick dish at home.
Food: spicy cabbage
Making ingredients cabbage, apples, ginger, garlic, sugar, chili powder
Methods and steps
1,First of all, prepare a fresh cabbage, the outermost layer of leaves to it peeled off, and then cut off the root, the cabbage cut into four petals, in a large pot, and pour the right amount of water, will be a piece of a piece of clean. After washing, fish out to dry the surface of the water, and then to the surface of the cabbage sprinkled into some salt, hands scratched evenly, marinated for half an hour.
Salt has a disinfectant effect, can be very good to the surface of the cabbage to eliminate bacteria, but also can soften the cabbage, let it out of the water, so that the back of the spicy cabbage made out of the taste more crisp and tough.
2, while the cabbage marinating time, we have to prepare an apple, cut in half after the core removed and then cut into small pieces, put aside, and then cut some garlic and ginger granules. Then put the apple, garlic and ginger into the blender, then add 50 milliliters of water, start the switch to beat it into a paste, pour out into a large bowl.
Apples have a distinctive fruity flavor, and making a seasoning paste with ginger and garlic will add to the flavor of the cabbage. Next, pour 50ml of water into a saucepan, add about 15g of sugar and lower the heat to a simmer, using a spatula to bring it to the boil.
3. After the sugar has melted, pour 50 grams of chili powder into the pot and keep stirring with chopsticks. Bring it to a boil, then pour in the water starch in small amounts until the chili noodles become sticky and flowable, then turn off the heat, pour the chili sauce into a small bowl, and let it cool to room temperature.
The chili powder can be added according to personal taste, or you can pick different spiciness of chili noodles. For each addition of water starch, we need to mix well with chopsticks, and make sure to use low heat throughout to prevent the chili sauce from simmering until it is burnt.
4, this time the cabbage is also pickled almost, the water will be squeezed out a little more, put into a large bowl. Next we have to prepare a few glass bottles for cabbage, open the lid, clean it, put it upside down on top of the steamer, cover it and steam it for five minutes to give it a little bit of decontamination. When the time is up, take it out to dry the water.
With water vapor disinfection of the bottle, and then loaded with food, it will not happen in the case of deterioration, but also let us eat more clean and assured, although this step is a bit of trouble, but must not be omitted.
5, chili sauce after cooling, pour it into the apple paste inside, with a spoon to mix well, so that the sauce of spicy cabbage is ready. Then pour it directly into the cold cabbage, and then wear gloves, so that each piece of cabbage can be coated with a layer of hot sauce, take out the sterilized bottle, put the cabbage into it. Put the lid on the bottle and put it in the refrigerator to chill.
While tossing, it's best to pick up the cabbage piece by piece so that it becomes fully flavored. After being put into the bottle and marinated for three days, it can be taken out and eaten, and we can eat it directly with vegetables, or use it to eat with porridge or rice.
Tips
Well, the above is the spicy cabbage food production sharing, the method is very simple, even if you do not know how to cook friends can learn to do out of the cabbage spicy and refreshing, no longer need to go outside the supermarket to buy.