Dayna’s Favourite Kombucha
Kombucha is expensive to buy and commercial brands are often full of extra sugar, so why not save your dollars and make your own! It’s super simple to make and once you’re in the swing of it, it takes barely any effort.
Ingredients:
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Sugar
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Cold filtered water
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Black, green or white tea (bags or loose leaf)
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Scoby — ask a friend, buy online or brew your own from scratch
Method
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Method
1. Brew 3 green tea bags and 3 white tea bags in a pot of filtered water*
Bring to the boil and dissolve 2 cups of white sugar in the water.
Allow to cool.
Pour sweetened tea into a dispenser with Scoby and pour a some of your previous kombucha or good quality store bought kombucha in.
Fill the dispenser the rest of the way with filtered water.
Cover with a cloth and rubber band – don’t use a metal lid.
Leave between 5 – 12 days to ferment. You will not need to ferment as long when the weather is warm, during winter you will need to ferment up to a full 2 weeks.
Once fermented, pour your kombucha into jars (remember to reserve a small amount for your next batch). Place apple and ginger in jars and leave out for 2 day to ferment (this is called a second ferment)
After 2 days, place in the fridge.
Enjoy!
You can experiment with any flavours you like, lime and ginger, blueberry and raspberries, strawberry – the options are endless!
We have scoby’s available at the clinic to help get you started, call us on 02 4961 4075 to collect.
*It is important to use filtered water so that you avoid any chemicals.
