This is easy to make, I used to buy the sour cabbage from the store but they don’t really taste right, maybe they add something else to make it ferment faster so the taste of it is usually way too strong for me.

Direction:

You will need a big glass jar, some Chinese cabbage or mustard green. The only ingredients adding are water and salt.

Add 2% of salt to the total weight of vegetables (vegetable cleaned and cut in halves or quarters) and let it sit for one to two hours in room temperature until the vegetable is wilted and a lot of water coming out of the vegetable.

Add the vegetable and the water from the vegetables to the big jar, usually the water from vegetable is not enough to cover the vegetable, so you will need to add some more water to the jar. Weigh the water you need then add 2% of salt to the total weight to the water and stir to dissolve the salt, then add it to the jar.

Make sure the water is enough to cover all the vegetable, don’t let any of the vegetable float to the surface. You can use a piece of stone to press down vegetable, if you don’t have one, then get a plastic bag and add some water to it and tie it up tight and put it on top of vegetable.

Seal the jar with the lid and keep it in a cool dark place for 2-3 weeks, it all depends on the weather, if it is warm/hot then it will ferment faster, if it is cold then it may take 4 weeks to become sour. If you use Chinese cabbage the color will go from light greenish yellow and white to beautiful yellow and white when it is ready. If you use mustard green then the color will go from bright green to brownish green like the pictures shown above.

When you think it is sour enough you can take it out and keep them in freeze for up to one month. The taste of it is smooth sour not too strong. I use it to make soup, saute with meat or just saute by itself. Yum!

酸菜其實很容易做，我過去常從店買酸白菜，但味道不太對我想也許他們加了別的東西進去讓它發酵得更快，所以它的味道對我來說太冲了。

做法：

你需要一個大玻璃罐，一些大白菜或芥菜。添加的唯一材料是水和鹽。

加入蔬菜總重量的2%的鹽到菜裏（蔬菜洗乾净並切成兩半或四分半），讓它在室溫下腌一到兩個小時，直到蔬菜蔫了，蔬菜中會流出水。

將蔬菜和從蔬菜流出的水加到大罐子里，通常蔬菜的水不足以覆蓋蔬菜，所以你還需要往罐子里再加一些水。稱一下你需要的水的重量，然後加入水重量2%的鹽到水裏，攪拌溶解后添加到罐中。

確保水足以覆蓋所有的蔬菜，不要讓蔬菜浮到水面上。你可以用一塊石頭壓蔬菜，如果你沒有，就拿一個塑膠袋，裝一些水，把它綁緊然後放在蔬菜上面把菜壓下去。

用蓋子密封罐子，並將其放在陰涼沒有光綫的地方2-3周，這一切都取決於天氣，如果天氣溫暖/熱，那麼它會發酵更快一些。如果天冷，那麼它可能需要4周才能變酸。如果你使用大白菜做那它的顏色將從淺綠色/黃色和白色變成美麗的黃色和白色。 如果你使用芥菜做，那麼顏色將從明亮的綠色變成棕綠色，就像上面圖片的樣子。

當你覺得它夠酸了，你可以把它拿出來，就分袋裝好放凍箱可保存長達一個月。它的味道是很順口的酸。我用它來做湯，加肉炒，或者直接炒酸菜就很好吃了。百 勝！