Adding a culture starter to your fermented foods is optional, but it truly give an added bonus of billions of beneficial bacteria.
You can decrease your salt or eliminate it all together it you use the raw juice culture starter for your brine.
Servings: 0
Ingredients
For each 1-L ferment
1/2 tsp culture starter
Caldwell Culture Starter, Body Ecology Culture Starter or Cutting Edge Culture Starter are all very good.
1/2 cup filtered water or juice like celery, carrot, pear, apple or cucumber are all very nice.
1/8 tsp organic sugar, omit if using juice
(this is for the starter not you, it gives it immediate food to wake it up)
Combine in a small bowl and set aside to dissolve.
Instructions
Place water or raw juice into a small bowl, add culture starter and sugar and stir well. set aside to dissolve.
Chop your veggies as per recipe or preference and place in a bowl.
Pack into a 1-L glass jar
Add dissolved culture starter and then fill with either your 2% brine water or with filtered water until brine reaches 1" over veggies.