How to Use Kefir to Ferment Vegetables for Your Homestead
Kefir grains, typically used in milk to create a probiotic drink, can be used to ferment vegetables. You can also use the whey left from making kefir cheese.
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Category: Food & Drink
How to Make Coconut Kefir – 6 Steps to Make a Great Fermented Beverage
Vegans can enjoy the health benefits of kefir by culturing their grains in coconut milk. Live kefir grains will culture batch after batch of coconut milk, just as they would milk.
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Health Benefits of Kefir
Kefir cultures are one of many ways to ferment milk and create a probiotic beverage. It originates from the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe where it has been used to preserve milk for centuries. Kefir cultures contain a community of beneficial bacteria and yeasts that make a cauliflower-like kefir grain.
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List of Ways to Use Milk Kefir
Kefir grains are used to culture milk into a beverage that has similar probiotic benefits to yogurt. Once you begin culturing kefir, your grains will begin to multiply. You can get use out of these extra grains by making kefir cheese, butter or fermented vegetables.
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How to Cook with Goji Berries
Wolfberries or goji berries are considered a superfruit with many health benefits. The berry can be added as an interesting ingredient to soups, stir-fry or sauteed greens.
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How to Batter and Fry Squash Blossoms – Homestead Recipe Basics
Summer squash plants not only provide an abundance of yellow squash and zucchini, but can also be the inspiration for a delicacy. Many people aren’t aware that the flowers are edible.
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How to Make Healthy Slushies – Homestead Recipe Basics
Slushies typically contain unhealthy dyes and flavorings with no nutritious value. However, you can use the drink as a way of giving your kids fruits and vegetables high in vitamins and nutrients by making homemade slushies.
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How to Bake Pumpkin Seeds – Homestead Recipe Basics
Once you harvest your pumpkin patch in the fall, you may want to think about baking the pumpkin seeds you scoop from your bounty instead of letting them go to waste.
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How to Make Mulberry Jam
Just about anyone has free access to mulberries. They grow abundantly in the wild in many areas. You can take advantage of the health benefits of mulberries you harvested for months to come by making them into a jam.
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How to Make Grape Vinegar – Homestead Recipe Basics
Use your homemade vinegar to make salad dressing or for pickling recipes.
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