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How to Make Beet Kvass – A Probiotic Rich Fermented Drink for Good Gut Health
Beet Kvass is easy to make and gives you a wonderfully effervescent and probiotic-rich drink.ย It’s also an economical beverage when made at home because you can reuse the beets a second time.
And after the second batch of Beet Kvass finishes fermenting, you can use the probiotic-rich beets in a salad.ย For an extra flavor kick, use some of the Beet Kvass in place of vinegar when you make your salad dressing.ย It’s delicious!
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How to Make Beet Kvass
Ingredients
- 4 Beets Peeled with tops and tails removed
- 2 tablespoon Coarse ground Celtic sea salt
- 1 Filtered water Sufficient to fill jar
Instructions
- Cut up beets into 1-inch cubes.
- Place beets into a half-gallon jar that has a lid.
- Add salt.
- Fill jar with water, leaving approximately 1 inch of head space.
- Put lid on jar, finger tight.
- Place jar in a warm, undisturbed place, such as in a kitchen counter corner, on top of a refrigerator, or in a cabinet or pantry.
- After a few days, check the jar to see if bubbles are beginning to appear. In warmer months, bubbles will appear sooner than in cooler months. If you see bubbles, loosen the jar lid to allow some of the carbon dioxide to escape. Retighten the jar lid.
- Continue to check the jar each day. Loosen the jar lid to release carbon dioxide and retighten lid. After approximately 7 days, use a clean spoon to taste the Beet Kvass. If it is to your liking, strain out the beets from the liquid. This liquid is your Beet Kvass. Decant the Beet Kvass into a clean bottle, reserving 1/4 cup. Place a cap on the bottle and refrigerate the Beet Kvass.
- Place the beets back into the half-gallon jar along with the reserved 1/4 cup of Beet Kvass and 1 tablespoon of coarse ground sea salt. Repeat Steps 4 thru 8, but do not reserve 1/4 cup of the Beet Kvass unless you have a new batch of beets. The beets can only be used to make 2 batches of Beet Kvass.
- Do not discard the beets used to make the first 2 batches of Beet Kvass. They are rich in probiotics now, and you can now add them to a salad.
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Hi Mary, Thank you for all of your wonderful videos. I really liked your prepping videos a lot. As for the Beet Kvaas. Can I substitute a different salt for the gray Celtic coarse salt?
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for your kind comments! Yes. You can use a different salt, but make sure the salt does not have any anti-caking ingredients.
Love and God bless,
Mary
Thank you Mary once again for a wonderful video! They should be prescribed by doctors as your voice is soothing and relaxing! PLUS we learn all these healthy things to make. My husband suffers with bloating and an upset tummy often. We tried the shop bought pro-biotic drinks and they didn’t help. So I’ve got him on home made kefir and will try this too (once we can get beetroot in the UK again!). I loved the idea of the cloves and orange peel. Please can you let me know how much cloves to use? I don’t want to kill the lovely beet taste with too much cloves. Thank you so much again! Angie
Hi Angela, Thank you so much for all the kind words! As to the cloves, yes go easy – just a small handful – maybe 10 at most. I generally don’t measure! LOL!! Thanks again for being here!! Love, Mary
Hi there, just trying this for the first time. Do I need to strain it through a cheese cloth? or just a sieve?
Thank you so much for your videos, I am really enjoying them, and trying to slowly change things in the home.
Corinne
Hi Corinne, Thank you so much for your comment. I am thrilled to hear that you are transitioning over to a traditional foods kitchen! As to kvass…you do not need to strain it through cheesecloth. You have options. You can remove the beets or you can leave them in the kvass for a few more weeks once you refrigerate it. If you leave the beets in for a few weeks, they absorb more of the kvass which helps to mellow the salty flavor but increase the flavor of the beets. Either way, the kvass will mellow in flavor over time. But yes, once you go to strain it, just a sieve is fine.
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Love your videos! Thank you! You are a blessing! Today, I made my first Beet Kvass!
Hi Julia,
Oh my goodness!! Thank you for the kind words!! You made my day!! So glad you make beet kvass!!
Do you enjoy learning about making other traditional foods? If so, I have a playlist of some of my videos titled “Mastering the Basics of Traditional Nutrient Dense Foods Cooking”. It’s a series of 15 detailed videos that covers How to Make Bone Broth, Cultured Dairy, Ferments, Sourdough Starter (my foolproof stater), Sourdough Bread, Soaked and Sprouted Nuts and Beans, and How to Soak and Sprout Grains to Make your own Sprouted Flour at Home. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkRuW3pBo2U3b4eu0QraZReKlGzA11h3y And please share the playlist with any other folks you think might be interested in learning about these types of things. Iโm passionate about the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon (of the Weston A Price Foundation) and want to help as many people as I can learn how to make Traditional โNutrient Denseโ Foods who may not be able to afford the online programs that have a cost associated with them.
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