Soon the summer is hot, and it's time for us to quench our thirst more than ever. It is at this time that the amazing drink kvass is gaining popularity. You can buy it in any store, or you can cook it in your kitchen. How to make homemade kvass? Very simple - use a starter!
There are many recipes and ways of preparing sourdough for kvass. We are happy to tell you about some of them. Kvass can be prepared either on leaven or on yeast. It is believed that the products on the first ingredient are more useful, they contribute to the restoration of the intestinal microflora. And the bread, baked at the leaven, is stored for a long time and does not cause heartburn. Remember that high-quality leaven is the main ingredient and the key to obtaining a surprisingly tasty product. Prepare this is not easy enough and sometimes even experienced housewives just buy a store. But let's still try to make the leaven of the house with you!
How to prepare a leaven for kvass?
You can prepare a starter for homemade kvass in several different ways. Let's look at them in order.
Ingredients:
- rye bread - 1,5 kg;
- boiled water - 10 liters;
- yeast - 100 g;
- sugar - 3 tbsp.
Preparation
How to make a thick for kvass? This recipe for ferment for kvass is quite simple. We take rye bread, finely chopped and fried in a frying pan with vegetable oil until ruddy. Then put it in a saucepan and pour it with boiling water. Leave for four hours, after which we filter and add the sugar-yeast with yeast. The thick, which is formed after you have filtered the mixture, is the leaven. The liquid is bottled, clogged and sent to the refrigerator. But we leave the thick, because it will be necessary for us next time to make homemade kvass (instead of yeast).
Yeast leaven
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- dry yeast - 10 g;
- wheat flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
- boiled water - 0.5 tbsp.
Preparation
How to make a leaven for kvass? Dry yeast is mixed with sifted flour and sugar. We pour warm water and mix everything thoroughly until it is uniform.
We put the resulting leaven for 30 minutes in a warm place. After this time, the leaven for kvass is ready!
Yeast without yeast
Ingredients:
- honey - 50 g;
- boiled water - 100 ml;
- peel from apples;
- rye bread - 100 g;
- grape skins.
Preparation
Pour a little warm boiled water into a saucepan, add honey, apple peel and grape skins, mix well and put it in a dark warm place for fermentation. After 3 days we take out a container with leaven and add crumbs of rye dried bread into it. Now again we remove the starter into a dark place. Once you see that the fermentation process has become active, you can start cooking homemade kvass.
Bread sourdough
Ingredients:
- sugar - 0,5 items;
- warm water - 1 item;
- pressed yeast - 50 g;
- dried bread - 2 tsp.
Preparation
We take a saucepan, pour a little boiled water, put it on the fire and heat it up to about 40 degrees. Then we dissolve sugar in it and soak the bread crumbs. We leave the whole mass alone for about an hour, so that it is properly insisted. And at this time we take yeast, soak them in warm water. Now mix the contents of both glasses and put the resulting mixture for 2 days in a dark place. At the end of time a good bread sourdough for cooking delicious homemade kvass is ready. If you prefer not a classic drink, then you can taste kvass from birch sap . Try to cook it!