All you need to make delicious, healthy and inexpensive sauerkraut at home are cabbage and salt. Chop, salt, pack into jars and let sit on the counter from from a few days to several weeks.
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5 Gateway Fermented Foods to Make Yourself
Start your adventures in fermented food with these five simple recipes. Save money, preserve food to reduce food waste, feed your gut live cultures and add intense flavors to dishes, all through the alchemy of fermentation. These five recipes are easy to make and require simple kitchen tools you likely already have. But be warned! Once you start, you can't stop!
You need a bit of yogurt to make more yogurt. But once you have that, you can continue the very simple process of yogurt for a very long time (theoretically, forever).
Gochugaru—Korean chili pepper—is the secret ingredient in kimchi. This simple recipe also calls for Napa cabbage, daikon radish, green onions, garlic, ginger and salt.
If you can brew a pot of tea, you can brew kombucha. The only trick to making kombucha is obtaining a mother (the SCOBY) to get started. Ask for one in your Buy Nothing group, look on Craigslist or buy one online.
If you can find them in a grocery store, preserved lemons cost a small fortune. Make them yourself and save money while eating tastier preserved lemons.
