Having this cultured vegetable on-hand in your refrigerated medicine cabinet means that you can quickly add a variety of probiotics and nutrients to sauces, salad dressings and dips. Since garlic has anti-viral, antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties even just adding a tablespoon of the juice will help boost your immune system. Add this to your daily diet for a fantastic preventative "medicine" or take a shot of this very powerful infection fighter at the first sign of a cold or flu.
Equipment:
1 pint or quart glass jar
Ingredients:
-20 Garlic Cloves, peeled
-1/2 teaspoon Sea Salt
- Filtered Water
-1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt or 2 Tablespoons Kefir Whey
- Fresh Herbs (optional)
~ What To Do ~
Place peeled cloves in a glass pint or quart jar.
Add water., salt, and culture (either powdered culture or kefir whey). Stir to combine.
Add fresh herbs if you are using.
Cover with a tight fitting lid and let sit on your counter for 3-4 days until you see bubbles forming at the top.
Refrigerate.
Note: Adding fresh herbs will not only add additional flavor but also another set of nutrients. I love the "mediterranean-style" flavor of adding fresh oregano to this ferment. Oregano adds an extra anti-viral layer of protection . If you plan on using this for a wide variety of dishes then make it without the herbs. You still get all the benefits from the fermented garlic to add to a more versatile number of dishes. Make sure to reserve the juice from this ferment when making your next batch. There are hundreds of millions of microbes in the juice and will help start your next batch of garlic.
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