Delicious, soft, fragrant and incredibly aromatic. .. All this applies to chicory kvass. It's amazing why he has not yet become the most popular drink, because his taste and healing properties are amazing. It can be drunk in hot weather and on cool winter evenings, after dinner and just enough to quench your thirst.
Chicory enriches this drink with new flavors and gives it a pleasant rich color. Home recipe of kvass from chicory is incredibly simple, and all the ingredients that make up its composition are generally available. Let's figure out how to cook it properly and what benefit it will bring to our body.
Let's drink kvass. ..
Chicory can enter into an infinite number of drinks;it is added to coffee and tea, combined with water and milk, and mixed with juices and syrups. Do you want your baking to acquire a delicate nutty shade and a special spicy taste? Add in it a small amount of chicory!
Recommendation! In cooking, it is usually soluble chicory, which can be found on sale in the form of a thick extract or powder.
What gives us this drink?
Kvass from chicory is, first of all, a source of vitamins, trace elements, organic acids and beneficial bacteria, which are so necessary for the normal functioning of the digestive system. In addition, this drink is able to help with:
- dysbacteriosis;
- gastritis with low acidity;
- reducing male strength.
Recipe for cooking
At home, kvass from chicory is prepared by fermentation, so remember that it will contain a small amount of alcohol.
Note! If you recalculate per liter of finished product, it turns out that the content of pure ethyl alcohol in kvass will be equal to 10 g. In fact, even in children's medicines, alcohol is much more.
Prepare ingredients:
- 10 liters of warm boiled water;
- 100 g of compressed yeast;
- 600 g of sugar;
- 3 tablespoons chicory;
- lemon;
- citric acid - to taste.
The cooking process.
- Transfer water into a container in which kvass will be infused.
- Lemon wash and grind in a blender or pass through a meat grinder.
- The resulting lemon mass should be folded into a gauze pouch, tied and placed in a container with water.
- Add the yeast, stir.
- Put sugar, chicory.
Tip! At this stage, you need to try the mixture. If the acid is not enough, you can add a little lemon powder - about half a teaspoon.
- In the container with the ingredients, lower the hand and mix everything, while squeezing a bag of lemon.
- After a few minutes, the lemon mass is removed from the overall container and bottled with kvass in plastic bottles.
Recommendation! When distributing kvass in bottles, make sure that there is little space left for gas. Otherwise, the bottles simply can not stand the pressure and "explode".
- Leave the beverage under direct sunlight for 2-3 hours.
- Check the readiness of kvass by pressing on the bottles with your fingers - if they are sufficiently dense, they can be transferred to the refrigerator.
Important! Readiness of kvass should be checked in two hours. If you overstay it in the sun, you can get a regular mash, which will be too drunk.
Caution - harm!
Despite all the benefits of red kvass with chicory, cooked at home, it can cause harm.
- First, because of the alcohol content, this drink is recommended to be used with extreme caution during pregnancy;for the same reason, one should not give too much kvass to children;
After using red kvass for safety reasons it is better to leave the car trip for a couple of hours - Secondly, it is strictly forbidden to use for patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, high blood pressure and inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract;
- Thirdly, being in the composition of kvass, chicory can have an adverse effect on the body with hemorrhoids, varicose veins, diseases of the vascular system, chronic cough and bronchitis;
- Fourthly, it is known that chicory contains a large amount of ascorbic acid, which quite often causes allergies.
Undoubtedly, natural kvass cooked according to all rules is incredibly tasty and useful. But remember that you should not abuse it. Drink red kvass with chicory moderately, and it will surely give you a charge of energy and vitality. Be healthy!