Recipes

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What's the best way to get your Kombucha from the big fermenting vessel into swing-top bottles? Pouring straight from the jar is messy, and Kombucha spills everywhere! Watch, listen, or read to learn how to decant Kombucha into bottles using food grade tubing and an inexpensive auto bottling siphon.

How To Decant Kombucha Into Bottles… Fast & Easy! #AskWardee 104

decorative blue and white ceramic bowl of carrot sticks

Lacto-Fermented Carrot Sticks (gut-healing probiotic snack for kids!)

A chutney is the perfect way to get started with fermenting because it's easy to make and delicious. To help you dive in -- and use up the fruits you're likely bringing in by the boxload or bucketful -- we pulled together this collection of lacto-fermented fruit and chutney recipes. Enjoy!

25 Fermented Fruit & Chutney Recipes

My family are huge fans of my homemade salsa, bean dip, and pesto -- which are all lacto-fermented. As I put together this round-up of 50 amazingly healthy and colorful fermented salsas, dips, and spreads, my eyes were opened to all the ways I can add even more beneficial bacteria into our foods... and probably without anyone noticing. ;)

50 Fermented Salsas, Dips, and Spreads

Small bottle of essential oil.

6 Essential Oils For Candida (+ Oral Thrush Mouthwash Recipe!)

Small glass jar of cultured butter.

How To Make Cultured Butter

Radishes pickling in quart-sized Mason jars along with other red onion slices.

How To Make Lacto-Fermented Radishes

Holding up a glass jar of beet kvass with ice cubes.

How To Make Beet Kvass

These are NOT the vinegar pickles you find in the store! Once pickled, there's an explosion of vitamins, enzymes, probiotics, beneficial acids, and most importantly... a delicious crunch! And I make them in one of my favorite kitchen tools -- a fermenting crock from Ohio Stoneware!

Old-Fashioned, Crunchy, Fermented Garlic-Dill Pickles

Thickened homemade sour cream in a glass jar.

How To Make Sour Cream

Is it possible to make thick raw milk yogurt in the Instant Pot? In other words... can you skip the pasteurizing step, retaining all the raw goodness of your milk, and still end up with thick yogurt? Find out here!

Raw Milk Yogurt {Instant Pot}

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented} | Kicked up with the Chinese 5-Spice Blend, lacto-fermented apple chutney has been rocking our house lately. I can't keep enough of it on hand for the kids. They love to put a scoop of it in a bowl of kefir. We just went through 1/2 gallon of it in 3 days -- and that was with me telling them not to take so much! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented!}

Scooping up a bite of homemade sauerkraut out of a small dish.

Homemade Sauerkraut In A Stoneware Crock

glass of honey-sweetened ginger beer

Honey-Sweetened Ginger Beer {probiotic, non-alcoholic, GAPS-friendly natural soda!}

What's the best part of making your own soft cheese from raw milk? Raw milk contains probiotics of course! Raw milk left to sit out and get warm means those probiotics are proliferating. This raw milk mascarpone is teeming with living flora. It's an indulgent, tasty health food that you can enjoy in both sweet and savory dishes!

How to Make Raw Milk Mascarpone: Soft, Probiotic Cheese

Cultured cream cheese on a small serving plate.

Cultured Cream Cheese (+5 flavor options!)

probiotic mixed berry switchel in a glass with a pink-striped paper straw

5-Minute Probiotic Mixed Berry Switchel {paleo, GAPS, AIP}

Spontaneously Fermented Sparkling Apple Cider {fall's easiest ferment!}

Spontaneously Fermented Sparkling Apple Cider {fall’s easiest ferment!}