Fermented Berries Recipe

Fermented Berries Recipe

Versatile gut-loving ingredients, fermented fruits and berries are puffy and slightly sweet. They and can be mashed or puréed into sauces and drizzled over baked custard, nice cream, breakfast oats, pancakes and yoghurt.

Makes: 1 × 500mL jar

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Fermented Berries Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

These berries can be mashed or puréed into sauces and drizzled over baked custard, pancakes and yoghurt.


Servings

1 × 500mL jar

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh mixed berries
  • 2–3 tbsp filtered water
  • 2 tbsp raw honey
  • ½ tsp starter culture (find at healthfood stores & follow packet instructions for quantity needed as they vary)
  • 1 tsp Celtic sea salt

Method


  • Place berries in sterilised 500mL mason jar, packing them tightly with a wooden spoon to remove any air gaps and leaving about 2.5cm headroom at the top.
  • In small sterilised jug, mix together remaining ingredients until salt has dissolved.
  • Pour liquid over berries, ensuring they are submerged and leaving about 2.5cm of breathing room at top of jar to allow for expansion.
  • Cover jar with plastic wrap then screw lid on tightly.
Store at room temperature for 1–2 days or until bubbles start to form. Transfer to fridge, where berries will keep for up to 4 weeks.
  • Note: Covering the top of the jar with plastic wrap before screwing the lid on stops the metal of the lid coming in contact with the fermenting liquid.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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