Fermented Curtido Recipe
This is a central American spicy kraut which is so blooming good and yet so bloomign simple and of course probiotic and nutrient dense.
Ingredients:
- 1 medium white cabbage, thinly cut or grated
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 2 medium carrots grated
- 2 jalapeno peppers, diced small
- 2 tbsp. fresh oregano
- 1 tbsp, Himalayan or sea salt
- 1 tsp of seaweed flakes (optional)
Directions:
- Put all the Ingredients into a large bowl and mix
- Squeeze (or pound down with a kraut pounder) the mixture until liquid/brine starts to come out of the vegetables
- When it feels like you have squeeze most of the liquid out place the mixture (including the liquid/brine) into a sterile jar, packing it in tightly
- If the liquid does not come up above the mixture in the jar add a little bit of filtered water until it does
- Make sure there is at least 2cm gap at the top of the jar
- Put a cabbage leaf, a piece of wax paper, a bag of water or a boiled pebble into the jar on top of the mixture to make sure it’s all weighed down and stays under the liquid
- Put the lid on loosely and out somewhere at room temperature and out of direct sunlight for a week
- Open the jar slightly every day to ‘burp’ the ferment, allowing the gases out
- Once you start consuming the ferment put in a fridge
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