Stephanie Thurow

Quick Curtido

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    1 quart

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Can It & Ferment It: More Than 75 Satisfying Small-Batch Canning and Fermentation Recipes for the Whole Year
Can It & Ferment It

By Stephanie Thurow

Published 2017

  • About

Curtido is a traditional El Salvadorian cabbage salad. It can be eaten any way that you’d normally enjoy sauerkraut but it’s also phenomenal added to tacos. I keep finding new ways to incorporate this delicious ferment to my everyday meals.

Ingredients

  • 1 head organic green cabbage
  • 3 carrots, grated
  • 1 onion, thinly sliced

Method

In a large glass bowl, mix all grated and sliced veggies together with lime juice and massage with salt. I have a small 2.5-liter crock that I use when making small batches. If you do not have a small crock, use a glass quart canning jar.

Within an hour, all the shredded vegetables should be packed into your fermenting vessel(s), and enough brine should be created to cover the cabbage s