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A sauerkraut recipe can incorporate herbs and spices to liven up the taste of this special lactic acid ferment.
Learn how to make sauerkraut for you and your family to enjoy the many health benefits that are associated with "real" sauerkraut.
Sauerkraut is known for helping our immune system with its ability to maintain our intestinal flora and aiding with digestion.
Most of the sauerkraut you find in grocery stores these days have been pasteurized and do not contain any beneficial bacteria.
Therefore, make your own to receive the numerous benefits of this wonderful food.
How to Make Sauerkraut
Basic Recipe
Equipment:
Glass Jar, Ceramic Crock, or Food-Grade Plastic Bucket
Plate to fit inside jar, crock, or bucket
A Heavy Weight (sterilized rock, water-filled glass jar, water-filled food-grade plastic bag)
Kitchen Towel to cover jar, crock, or bucket
Ingredients:
Green or Red Cabbage (2 Heads or 5 lbs of Cabbage)
3 to 4 Tablespoons of Sea salt, Kosher salt, or Pickling salt (no iodized salt)
Optional: Carrots, Onions, Caraway Seeds, etc.
Instructions:
Remove outer leaves of cabbage
Rinse cabbage in filtered water
Chop or grate cabbage
Add to large bowl and sprinkle on salt
Keep layering cabbage and salt until you use up cabbage
Massage cabbage and salt with your clean hands to help create more liquid
Pack mixture into glass jar, ceramic crock, or food-grade plastic bucket
Really press hard with your clean hands or wooden spoon to help release more liquid from the cabbage
Make sure cabbage is immersed in liquid (Very Important!)
Cover with fitted plate and weight down with a sterile rock, water-filled glass jar, or food-grade plastic bag (ziploc bags may be a good choice)
Cover jar, crock, or bucket with a good kitchen towel that prevents any dust, etc. from getting into ferment
Let sit for 1 to 4 weeks at 68 to 72 degrees and not more than 75 for good results
Then transfer to your refrigerator in glass containers and keep for a few months (making sure liquid covers sauerkraut and leave only a 1/2 inch space of air)
