Chicory Kvass At Home: Recipes And Step By Step Photos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Cooking chicory kvass: quick homemade recipes

Although rye bread has long served as the classic basis for kvass, there are many recipes for making this ancient drink today. Whatever the lovers of culinary experiments have used, trying to give it new flavors and shades! Vegetables and fruits, honey and foundation, juices, herbs, oatmeal and even … coffee. With the last ingredient, kvass turns out to be especially invigorating, aromatic and refreshing, it's a pity that it is not shown to everyone. But a drink based on chicory is much more useful and, at the same time, in terms of taste, is in no way inferior to its coffee counterpart.

Content

• 1 Kvass from chicory: features, benefits, contraindications

  1.1 Reviews of the drink from the network

• 2 How to make kvass from chicory

  • 2.1 The classic recipe
  • 2.2 With raisins and mint
  • 2.3 Video: quick chicory kvass with rye breadcrumbs

Kvass from chicory: features, benefits, contraindications

Kvass prepared on the basis of chicory has a pleasant nutty shade, which can turn out lighter or darker depending on other ingredients, rich taste, light bitterness and a peculiar, but attractive aroma.

However, the effect that this drink has on the body is much more interesting:

• it has a beneficial effect on the intestinal microflora and the activity of the digestive tract as a whole;
• improves the functioning of the cardiovascular and immune systems;
• increases the body's endurance;
• helps to cope with dysbiosis, some types of gastritis and gallstone disease - of course, provided that the patient does not forget to coordinate his diet with the doctor.

And this is not to mention that kvass perfectly copes with its main task: it quenches thirst, restores strength and perfectly refreshes.

Kvass with chicory contains many vitamins, organic acids and beneficial bacteria

However, there are several categories of people who should not take a close acquaintance with "chicory" kvass:

• allergy sufferers, especially those with vitamin C intolerance;
• people with serious liver and gastrointestinal tract diseases;
• patients suffering from diabetes mellitus (chicory itself will only benefit them, but the sugar contained in kvass will not).

Reviews of the drink from the network

How to make chicory kvass

The first step is to get the chicory itself. This, of course, is not about a tall roadside plant with blue flowers, but about a brown powder, which can easily be found in the store on the next shelf with tea or coffee. An important nuance: it is desirable that the product contains no unnecessary components, for example, flavor enhancers or powdered cream. Well, then it all depends on the recipe that you decide to use.

Soluble chicory granules are fine too

Classic recipe

For the easiest chicory kvass to make, you will need:

• 5 liters of water;
• 300 g sugar + 1 tsp;
• 1.5 tbsp. l. chicory powder;
• 1 tsp citric acid;
• 50 g fresh yeast.

If there is no fresh yeast at hand, you can replace it with 5-7 g of dry yeast.

Cooking.

1. Boil the water, remove the pan from the stove and add 300 g of sugar to it: while the water cools, it will have time to completely dissolve.

   

   It's better to add sugar right away

2. Dust in the chicory immediately.

   

   Chicory should be boiled

3. As soon as the resulting infusion reaches a temperature of about 35–40 ° (slightly above room temperature), pour a few spoons of it into a separate cup and dilute the yeast in it with 1 tsp. Sahara. Let them ferment a little and add to the cooled infusion.

   

   Bubbles should appear on the surface

4. Cover the pot with a lid and leave in a warm place to infuse for 3-4 hours.

   

   Do not put kvass in the refrigerator immediately

5. Pour kvass into clean washed plastic or glass bottles and refrigerate. Best for the night.

   

   Dishes for kvass must be thoroughly washed, otherwise bacteria deposited on the walls will spoil the drink

With raisins and mint

Citric acid gives the drink an attractive sourness, which is especially good in summer heat. But you can get it - and at the same time an additional portion of vitamins - in another way. For example, using natural lemon. And if you add fresh mint and a handful of raisins to it, you get a delicious healing cocktail filled with useful substances.

You will need:

• 3 liters of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. chicory;
• 20 g fresh or 3-5 g dry yeast;
• 200 g sugar;
• 0.5 lemon or whole fruit, depending on how much sourness you want to get;
• 12-15 raisins;
• 5–6 stalks of mint.

Cooking.

1. Place sugar and chicory in a saucepan.

   

   This time the order of cooking chicory will be different

2. Pour in cold water, stir and bring to a boil. Turn off the gas and set the pot aside to cool. At this stage, you can add mint, although some housewives prefer to put it in a cold drink.

   

   Kvass is especially tasty with spring water.

3. Wash the lemon with a brush, cut into pieces along with the zest, put in the center of a piece of gauze folded in several layers and place a makeshift bag in the water that has begun to cool down.

   

   In order not to drain the mint after, you can put it in a bag with lemon.

4. Pour some liquid into a cup, dilute the yeast in it and pour back into the pot.

   

   Do not dilute yeast in hot water!

5. Remove the gauze bag from the infusion, squeeze it and mix the future kvass thoroughly again so that all the components dissolve in it qualitatively.

   

   Squeeze the contents of the bag well

6. Add pre-washed raisins.

   

   The amount of raisins can be reduced or increased as desired.

7. Let the drink brew for 4-5 hours in a warm place, strain, pour the liquid into bottles and refrigerate.

   

   Decorate your finished drink glass with fresh mint

Video: quick chicory kvass with rye breadcrumbs

That's all. Now you can easily prepare a tasty, healthy drink that will save you from thirst and summer heat, which will not be inferior to ready-made kvass. Go for it!