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Condiments, Dips, & Spreads

Category: Condiments, Dips, & Spreads

Small glass jar of cultured butter.

How To Make Cultured Butter

Thickened homemade sour cream in a glass jar.

How To Make Sour Cream

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

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!)

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!} | In today's free video and recipe, I show you a traditional Middle Eastern method of preserving yogurt cheese that requires no refrigeration. My grandmother and namesake, Tata Wardee, who has passed away, always had jars full of yogurt cheese balls available to add to our plates at breakfast, lunch and dinner! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!}

Homemade Cottage Cheese From Raw Goat Milk | Cottage cheese, crepes, and heirloom tomatoes... I can't describe what tomatoes and cottage cheese do for my taste buds, but let's just say it is perfection! The raw cheese delivers vitamins, enzymes, and beneficial probiotics. In this post, I show you how to make easy, homemade cottage cheese. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Cottage Cheese From Raw Goat Milk

Over 100 people asked me to share my recipe for homemade Trim Healthy Mama-friendly cottage cheese! (Pssst! It's *not really* cottage cheese!) It's wayyyyy easier than traditional homemade cottage cheese and wayyyyy cheaper than the best cultured store-bought cottage cheese! Goes great with either S or E meals and snacks!

Trim Healthy Mama Fuel Pull Cottage Cheese {homemade}

Make your own mayonnaise! Homemade mayo gives you valuable enzymes, avoids GMO additives and tastes great. Lacto-ferment it for extra nutrition and a longer 'shelf' life. You can use a stick blender or food processor to whip some up today! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Lacto-Fermented Mayonnaise

Is it crazy for ketchup to bring me such a smile? Honestly! I didn’t know if I should name this delicacy “Oh My Lans Ketchup!”, “Mercy Sakes Ketchup!”, or “You Are Never Going to Believe It Ketchup!”. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Lacto-Fermented Homemade Ketchup

three small jars of homemade mustard

3 Lacto-Fermented Mustard Recipes (zippy, zingy flavor!)

Compound Butter {butter gets dressed up!} | If you’ve ever had honey butter, you’ve had compound butter. Compound butters are easy to make and they freeze well so they're handy whenever you need a quick flavor boost, an easy sauce, or a way to dress up simple food for company. Here are a myriad of flavor combinations and ideas for using them. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Compound Butter {Butter Gets Dressed Up!}

45 Homemade Dressings, Sauces, and Seasonings | Want to feed your family safe dressings, sauces, and seasonings without worrying about the ingredients or adverse effects? You need these 45 alternative recipes for additive-free dressings, sauces, and seasonings. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Avoid Additives with 45 Homemade Dressings, Sauces, and Seasonings

Jar of creamy coconut butter with a wooden spoon scooping some out.

Homemade Coconut Butter (+3 flavor options!)

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

Your family just. doesn't. like. them. Like what? Fermented foods. I know... shocking. ;) Yet, actually, this is very common! So I'm bound and determined to help you succeed! Let's continue on our ever-important quest to add more beneficial bacteria to our guts, this time with 43 probiotic-filled, fermented condiments! Because, for real, who doesn't like ketchup?

43 Fermented & Probiotic-Filled Condiments

photo collage of making Instant Pot jam, with text overlay: "Instant Pot Mixed Berry Chia Seed Jam (sugar-free option!)"

Instant Pot Mixed Berry Chia Seed Jam (sugar-free option!)