Sauerkraut or Other Fermented Vegetables
From bchase 15 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 8
A raw fermented vegetable dish, great for adding enzymes and beneficial bacteria to your system.
Ingredients
- white cabbage shopping list
- Two carrots shopping list
- salt (to your taste) shopping list
- Optional seasonings (to your taste): dill seed, Seaweed, juniper berries, caraway seeds, black pepper corns shopping list
- For zing: add garlic or ginger shopping list
How to make it
- - With a food processor or by hand, chop/shred a medium white cabbage.
- - Add two shredded carrots
- - Add some salt
- - Add other seasonings
- - With your hands, knead the mixture until juice comes out
- - Pack the mixture into a 1 or 2 quart glass jar, leaving at least 2 inches on the top
- (the cabbage will expand with the fermentation)
- - Press firmly so there is no air trapped and the cabbage is drowned in juice
- - If there is not enough juice to cover the cabbage, fill with salty water
- - Close the jar with a lid
- - Cover with a kitchen towel to keep it in the dark
- - Leave at 70-80 degrees F for 5-7 days, then refrigerate.
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Love saurkraut and will post my sauerkraut ( 5 Lbs ) that is fermenting happily away! Great post!
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