Honestly, this is my favorite recipe for a quick pickled vegetable salad in kale season. I cook it almost every Friday - on Saturday and Sunday. Cooking according to this classic recipe is a pleasure - simple and very fast, and the result is so tasty that the salad rarely "survives" until lunch or dinner - they begin to carry it long before it is fully cooked. This amazing cabbage "Provencal" with cranberries is liked by all my family members.





- cabbage - 2 kg.,
- large carrots - 1 pc.,
- green apple - 1 pc.,
- cranberries - 200 gr.,
- garlic - 3 cloves,
- bay leaf - 3-4 pieces,
- peppercorns - 6-8 pcs.,
- cloves - 1-2 pcs.,
- vinegar 6% (apple can be) - an incomplete glass,
- sugar - 120-150 gr.,
- vegetable oil - 50 gr.,
- salt - 2 tablespoons,
- water - 1 l.




Wash the cabbage, dry it, cut it into a large cube, put it in a convenient deep dish.




Peel the carrots, wash, grate for Korean carrots or cut into thin strips.




Peel the apple from the seeds, cut into thin slices, add to the vegetables.




Throw in the cranberries. If the cranberries are frozen, they must first be thawed; if fresh, they should be washed and dried slightly.




Now let's prepare the marinade. Pour 1 liter of water into a deep saucepan, add laurel, salt, sugar, cloves, peppercorns and chopped garlic. The amount of sugar can be reduced if you do not like a sweetish aftertaste, we have 150 g for this amount of food just right. As soon as the sugar and salt dissolve and the water boils, pour in the oil, vinegar and let it boil, immediately turn off the marinade.




Pour hot marinade over cabbage. At first it may seem that the marinade is not enough, don’t let that bother you, after an hour or two the cabbage will release juice and the marinade will be more than enough.




Cover the container with a dish and set the oppression, leave the cabbage to marinate for a day. After a day, mix the contents and you can serve. Apples are eaten instantly, so you can safely increase their number.




Divide into jars and store in the refrigerator. I don’t have it for longer than 3-4 days, so I can’t say the exact storage time. Serve ready-made Provencal cabbage marinated with cranberries as a salad with main courses.