Preserving food allows you to enjoy its fresh flavours and high nutritional value throughout autumn and winter, while reducing waste and stocking up on healthy, long-lasting ingredients.
Serves: 1 Litre
Prep Time: 1.5 Hours
Ingredients
½ a large Cabbage (400g)
50g Salt
1 tsp Glutinous rice flour
20g Gochutgaru (Korean chilli flakes)
100g (1 medium) Carrot
4 cloves of Garlic
20g Ginger
Half an Onion
Half an Apple
½ tbsp Sugar
Chives
Method
- Wash your cabbage, separating the individual leaves. Sprinkle salt between the leaves and rest for 30 minutes.
- Set your oven to 100 degrees and sanitise your glass jar.
- In a food processor, blend the onion, apple garlic and ginger into a paste. Mix in the sugar, rice flour and gochutgaru flakes.
- Finely slice your carrots into julienne slices.
- Drain the cabbage water created by the salt.
- Chop your cabbage roughly, but keep one cabbage leaf whole for later.
- In a large bowl, combine the vegetables and gochutgaru paste.
- In a sanitised jar, pack the vegetable mix densely and use the saved cabbage leaf on top to weigh down the mix.