How to make Kefir at home?

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by: E MELIA
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 Time: 6:45 AM

There is a lot of craze for the traditional Kefir drinks these days. In Western and European countries, Kefir has found its way as an inseparable and essential part of the regular diet. Kefir is a Turkish word that literally means “feel good.” It is a probiotic drink that is rich in enzyme and full of beneficial micro-organisms that helps strengthen your body immune system. Kefir can actually be prepared at home and it is inexpensive too. Thus, many people are inquisitive in knowing the method of how to make kefir.

You can learn how to make kefir in a traditional way in this section. But, before that, let us take a quick glance through the necessary ingredients and required apparatus.

Take a sealable tall glass jar, a spoon, few bottles with lids, some mineral water or boiled rainwater and sugar as per your tastes and liking. The optional ingredients for the drink can be dried fruits, peeled lemon and small piece of ginger.

Following are the simple and easy steps on how to make kefir drinks at home:

First of all, add sugar to boiled water, and dissolve it thoroughly. Keep the mixture aside for cooling.

Once cooled down, add kefir grains to it.

Then fill the glass jar with water, and ensure water does not exceed three quarter full.

After mixing the grain, the whole mixture is now kept for fermentation.

In the process, the kefir produces carbon dioxide that will carbonate the liquid in the jar and make it fizzy. The empty space in the jar helps accommodating the gas, thus preventing the glass jar from explosion.

Add other optional ingredients if required, and seal the jar completely. Allow it to ferment for around 1 to 3 days.

After the fermentation is complete, strain the liquid and preserve the grains as they are reusable. Transfer the drink into small bottles again up to three quarters only. Keep aside for 24 hours.

Kefir is now ready to be served.

Care should be taken when following how to make kefir instructions to get the authentic taste. Glass or plastic can used as containers but not metal as it destroys the useful organisms in the kefir grains. You should stick to sugar as honey is anti-bacterial; you might not get the desired results. Running water should be avoided as the chlorine content can harm the useful microbes in the kefir grains.

Kefir mainly helps a lot in balancing your internal body ecosystem. If you learn the how to make kefir at home secret, it will be a real blessing to you and your family. The ingredients used in the preparation makes this effervescent drink a very nutritious one. Many mothers are experimenting on how to make kefir drinks tastier and exciting which will make children crave for it. Nowadays, there are how to make kefir using the kefir grains kits available in the market which usually provides you good amount of kefir grains, recipe books and instruction booklets.

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