Kefired Lemonade Recipe Description: Lemonade with probiotics: Cheap, Sneaky Nutrition for Your Kids! Prep Time: 20 MinutesCook Time: 72 Hours Servings: 1 quart Difficulty: Easy Recipe Ingredients: 2 Tbs water kefir grains 1 quart water 1/4 cup + 1 tsp sucanant/rapadura or white sugar, divided 1/4 – 1/3 cup cup lemon juice a couple of thin slices of fresh ginger, optional Recipe Instructions: Place the water kefir grains and all but 1/2 cup of the water into a mason jar or other sealable non-plastic container and set aside. Place the remaining 1/2 cup water and the 1/4 cup sucanant in a saucepan and heat just enough to get the sucanant to dissolve. Set aside until cool then pour into the mason jar with the water and kefir grains. Cap tightly and allow to sit at room temperature for 24-48 hours. Congratulations, you have now made basic water kefir. That’s all there is to it! Now let’s made lemonade with it. Strain out the grains using a plastic sieve and set the grains aside to be used again. Take the water kefir and mix it with the remaining 1 tsp sucanant, lemon juice and the fresh ginger and pour it into a Grolsch lock-top bottle or other airtight container and return to the counter for 24 hours at room temperature. Transfer the bottles to the fridge and chill thoroughly. When you open the lock bottles, do be advised that they are highly carbonated and can explosively overflow. It’s best to open the bottles outside or over the sink with a rag thrown over the top. This is especially important if you leave the bottles on the counter longer than 24 hours, as it becomes more carbonated the longer you leave it. This morning I lost half of each bottle to the carbonated explosion as I had let it go two days too long. Whoops! Taste and add a little additional sucanat or stevia if needed, to get the sweetness adjusted to the level your family likes. It took a pinch of stevia to make it just right since I had let fermentation go on long enough to consume almost all of the sweetener. Author: KerryAnn @ CookingTF.com KerryAnn lives in Asheville, NC with her husband and two kids. KerryAnn runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest-running traditional foods menu mailer on the internet. View all posts by KerryAnn @ CookingTF.com
