Water Kefir

Name: Water Kefir
Prep time: 1 d 10 min
Cook time: 1 d 10 min
Total time: 1 d 10 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters water; 59 milliliters unrefined cane sugar; 2 Tbsps water kefir grains; 1 dried fig; 1 lime; 237 milliliters fruit juice or other flavoring; 1 bottle flip-top

The recipe Water Kefir can be made in about 24 hours and 10 minutes. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 374 calories, 2g of protein, and 2g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 1. Head to the store and pick up fig, unrefined cane sugar, water kefir grains, and a few other things to make it today. Only a few people really liked this beverage.

Instructions

Initial Fermentation

Bring the 1 cup water to a boil over medium-high heat, and then stir in the sugar until it dissolves.

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Pour the sugar water into a quart-sized mason jar, and then pour in 3 cold water. Allow the sugar water to cool to room temperature.

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Sugar

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Canning Jar

Spoon the water kefir grains into the room temperature sugar water. Drop in the fig and lime.

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Let it culture at least 24 hours and up to 72 hours.

Strain the kefir through a nonreactive strainer into a pitcher. Discard the spent lime and fig, but reserve the water kefir grains.

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Lime

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Store the reserved kefir grains in sugar water in the fridge up to 2 weeks.

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Serve the kefir right away, or continue with the secondary fermentation below.

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Kefir

Secondary Fermentation

For the secondary fermentation, pour 1 cup fruit juice into the kefir. And then pour the flavored kefir into flip-top bottles, filling them within 1/2 inch to 1 inch of their openings.

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Seal the bottles, and set them on your countertop to ferment a further 18 to 24 hours, keeping in mind that warm temperatures will speed up the fermentation process while cool temperatures will slow it down.

Transfer the bottles of water kefir to the fridge for 3 days to allow the bubbles to set.

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Open carefully over a sink, as the liquid in the bottle is under pressure, and when you release the bottles seal, the water kefir may fizz and foam.

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