I recently started a new ginger bug! It’s not really an insect 🐞, but rather a wild starter that’s made from water, sugar and fresh grated #ginger. Natural airborne yeasts and bacteria collect in the mixture over the next week … Read more
Tag Archives: probiotic
Kefir
Milk kefir is made with the help of a colony of bacteria and yeasts (aka a SCOBY) which is organized in clumps or “grains.” These helpful microorganisms work fast, consuming the sugars in milk and creating lactic acid, digestive enzymes … Read more
Jun
Jun (joon) is a fermented tea drink similar to kombucha, that is made with green tea and honey as the sweetener. The SCOBY is the culture responsible for transforming the tea into a healthful beverage. A jun scoby is usually lighter in color … Read more
Curtido
Curtido (sometimes spelled cortido) is a Salvadoreña (from El Salvador in Central America) version of sauerkraut. The word encurtido means pickle in El Salvadorean Spanish. In its native country, the full name of this recipe is encurtido de repollo (pickled cabbage) … Read more
Coconut Water Kefir & Cultured Coconut Cream
At the 2015 San Diego Fermentation Festival, coconut connoisseur Adam Elabd taught a workshop on how to make an easy probiotic coconut water-based beverage. Tropical and tangy in taste. Note that this recipe does not use or create visible grains. Print … Read more
Beet Kvass
Beet kvass is a fermented vegetable tonic, made with beets and other veg which are “steeped” in a brine for a few weeks. This recipe includes onion and cabbage for extra veggie goodness. But you can certainly make it with … Read more
Ginger Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut was traditionally prepared in the autumn and then stored fermented all winter long in a cellar where the earth temperature kept it cool but above freezing. People would consume it while it fermented throughout the winter. The flavor would … Read more
Drinks with Brine
If you’re like me, you want to get every last drop of probiotic goodness out of your fermented foods. I usually have lots of brine (the liquid in which veggies ferment) leftover, especially when making garlic dill cukes or dilly … Read more
Yogurt
Culturing dairy products adds enzymes and provides probiotic benefits. This is an especially helpful process when using pasteurized milk, where the original enzymes and living biota have been cooked out. Use raw or pasteurized (but not ultra-pasteurized) cow or goat’s … Read more