What is Kombucha?
Kombucha is a fermented drink, made with tea and sugar with help of culture of bacteria also known as scoby. It is also known and consumed for its health benefits.
It is full of probiotics, enzymes, and healthy organic acids, it improves your gut health and immunity and can replace your sugary drinks with it. Because it’s fermented, it contains no or very little sugar!
We can create different flavours from the base kombucha, with the help of fruits and herbs. For detailed study visit here
Recipe to make Kombucha without scoby
Ingredients
- Raw unpasteurised Kombucha ( I am using raw Kombucha from Peepal farm link to buy )
- Clean glass jar 2lt-3lt (washed properly with soap, vinegar and dried in sunlight)
- Clean muslin cloth ( link to buy)
- Sugar 120 grams
- Tea 15 grams
- 2lt water
Procedure
How to make a scoby?
- Wash glass jar with soap thoroughly first and then wash with vinegar.
- Keep it for drying in sunlight to kill unwanted bacteria.
- Add 500ml raw unpasteurized Kombucha in the cleaned glass jar.
- Cover this jar with clean muslin cloth and tie its mouth with a elastic band or thick thread.
- Keep this jar for 3 weeks in dark warm & dry place (temperature 23C-24C)
- After three weeks, you will notice a disc floating on the top of liquid.
- This disc is your scoby for next step to prepare Kombucha.
Steps to make Kombucha
- Boil 2 litre drinking water in a clean container.
- Add tea and sugar when the water starts boiling and put off the flame.
- let it cool down to room temperature .
- Add this water to the scoby jar and close it again with muslin cloth.
- Now keep it again in dark warm place for 2 Weeks.
- After two weeks you can take out the jar and your kombucha is ready for next step.
- Pour this in clean bottles and close the lid (air tight ).
- Keep these bottles again for 7 days in the same place.
- After 7 days keep it in fridge and enjoy your healthy cold drink!
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