Kvass is a favorite drink for many people, since childhood. To date, there are about 200 kinds of kvass - honey, bread, fruit, berry, but an honorable special place is rye kvass. It contains many micronutrients and vitamins. Kvass destroys the multiplication of pathogens, normalizes the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, it affects the cardiovascular system. The drink acquires all its medicinal properties in the process of fermentation. Let's consider with you recipes for the preparation of rye kvass.
Rye kvass with ginger
Ingredients:
- water - 5 l;
- rye bread - 800 g;
- sugar - 1 item;
- yeast - 35 g;
- apple syrup - 1,5 l;
- ginger - 6 g.
Preparation
Now tell you how to make rye kvass. Rye bread is dried, poured hot water and leave for about 6 hours. Then the wort cooked during this time is gently drained. Ginger boil in boiling water for 30 minutes. Then filter through a sieve, mix with a wort, bring it to a boil and cool. After that, add the yeast, previously diluted in water, pour out the sugar, pour apple syrup, mix well and remove to ferment in a warm place for about 12 hours. Ready rye kvass is poured on plastic bottles, tightly screwed on the lids and store the drink in the refrigerator.
The recipe for kvass from rye flour
Ingredients:
- rye flour - 1 kg;
- water boiled - 10 liters.
Preparation
From the flour, we mix the liquid dough on the water. To do this, pour a liter of water, add 1 kg of flour. Stir everything to homogeneity, cover the dishes with gauze, wrap it with several layers of dense fabric and stand in a warm place for about 3 days. After this, the risen and fermented dough is diluted with warm water and left to ferment. Before use, the beverage is filtered several times through gauze.
The classic recipe for rye kvass
Ingredients:
- water - 7 l;
- rye bread - 1 kg;
- yeast - 30 g;
- sugar - 500 g;
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Consider another recipe for making rye kvass. Slice the bread into small slices and lightly dry in the oven. Then put it in a saucepan, pour hot water, and leave to infuse under the lid for 3 hours, after which filter. Yeast is mixed with flour, diluted in warm water and leave for 1 hour. In the prepared wort we pour out sugar, yeast and put everything in heat. After a few hours, the wort is cooled. That's all, rye kvass is ready. Now it remains only to pour it on the bottles.
Rye bread with dried fruits
Ingredients:
- water - 10 liters;
- rye biscuits - 800 g;
- sugar - 3 items;
- dried fruits - 500 g;
- yeast - 40 g;
- raisins - a handful.
Preparation
Dried fruits thoroughly washed, pour 3 liters of water and cook for 15 minutes. We dry the breadcrumbs in boiling water and leave for an hour. Welded fruit and bread infusion filter and mix the two decoctions. Add yeast, sugar, mix everything and put in heat for fermentation. After that, the finished kvass is poured into bottles, adding to each bottle a few previously washed raisins. Tightly corked bottles are put in a cold place for 3 days. Everything, homemade kvass from rye biscuits is ready!
Rye mint kvass
Ingredients:
- water - 10 liters;
- rye bread - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 item;
- yeast - 30 g;
- mint dry - 50 g;
- raisins - 50 g.
Preparation
Sliced small pieces of rye bread dried in the oven, put into a saucepan, pour hot water and leave for 3 hours. Ready to infuse filter and pour sugar, mint, yeast into it and leave to wander for 5 hours. When the kvass is frozen, filter it and pour it into bottles and put in each of them 3 raisins. We screw the bottles and put them in the refrigerator.
We liked our recipes, then we recommend you try apple kvass - it will certainly bring variety to your drinks.