Homemade Chaoshan winter vegetables

Overview

Winter vegetables are a commonly used condiment in Chaoshan area. They can be used in various cooking or seasonings. In summer, they can be paired with melons and so on. The Chaoshan area is probably most famous for its Didu winter vegetables. Nowadays, most winter vegetables are made with cabbage. Elders say that in the past, this kind of cabbage was used to pickle winter vegetables. I grow cabbage at home every winter, so I was tempted by my aunt to pickle winter vegetables for the first time, and I personally tested it successfully.

Tags

• cold dishes
• cabbage
• garlic
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Break off some of the outer leaves of the cabbage. The cabbage is my own, so I broke off a lot of it.

   

2. 2 Cut off the leaves and leave the bones. You don’t need to cut off the leaves of the cabbage. Wash them and cut them into strips. You can also chop them into pieces. They won’t fall off easily when you cut them into strips and dry them in the sun.

   

3. 3 It has been dried for two days. It only takes two or three days on a sunny day in the first month of the lunar calendar. The vegetable bones must have a little moisture left and cannot be fully dried.

   

4. 4 After the dried vegetables are dried, marinate them in the ratio of 1 pound of dried vegetables to 1 and a half taels of salt and 3 taels of garlic. Dried vegetables can be cut into small pieces of about 1 to 2 centimeters wide. Garlic can be sliced and chopped after removing its outer coating. I am slicing it here. Then mix the dried vegetables, garlic, and salt evenly and put it into a sterilized jar and seal it tightly.

   

5. 5 Just pack it like this and store it in a cool and dark place. Winter vegetables are semi-fermented products. When fermenting in the jar, the bottle cap will be pushed up. There is no need to open the cap to deflate it. Pickled on March 2, 2016.

   

6. 6 I started eating it on the 50th day of pickling on April 21, 2016. The homemade winter vegetables do not have any additives. The winter vegetables will turn black and dark after opening. You can take an appropriate amount of winter vegetables and put them in another jar to avoid opening the original jar frequently, and then store it in the refrigerator for consumption.

   

7. 7 On July 2, 2016, after four months of fermentation, the originally green garlic gradually turned yellow.

   

8. 8 This is the can in picture ⑤.