Kefir vs. Yogurt: Main Differences. Compared to yogurt, kefir tends to have a higher probiotic count and more diversity of bacterial strains and yeasts. The presence of yeast especially makes it stand apart from yogurt. According to Lifeway (maker of kefir products), “kefir has 12 different strains of live and active cultures and 25–30
4. Kefir Mocha. Kefir Mocha is a delicious and healthy way to enjoy your coffee with a twist. It combines the goodness of Kefir milk with the rich flavor of chocolate in one cup. To make Kefir Mocha, start by brewing fresh coffee and then add some cocoa powder or melted dark chocolate into it. Storing kefir grains for a week. Place your kefir grains in milk. If you have 1 tablespoon of grains, store them in at least 2 cups of milk, 3 is better. I like to make sure that they have plenty of food to eat. If you have more grains, add more milk accordingly. Then you place this in the refrigerator.Here's how to make Goat's Milk Kefir: Add milk kefir grains to the bottom of a clean quart jar. Use ½ - 1 tablespoon of grains per cup of goat's milk used. Pour in the milk. Gently stir or shake to incorporate the grains into the milk. They will float during the fermentation process and this is okay! Add a lid to the jar.
You can do a secondary fermentation to bring down the sour flavor and increase B vitamins. Add orange peel, vanilla beans, or any kind of fruit. Let it sit and ferment for another 12 to 24 hours, and it will get even bubblier. You can add this kefir to smoothies. To make it even healthier, put a few drops of the organic Turmeric PuraThRIVE. If Milk kefir is made by adding kefir grains to milk, and allowing fermentation to happen. Kefir grains range from the size of grains of sand to rice; they combine into blobs about a few centimetres across that resemble cauliflower florets. They are white to cream coloured. You can also make kefir from a powdered kefir starter. If you have added one teaspoon of grains to a larger quantity of milk, say 3 to 4 cups, it ferments very slowly. Similarly, if you add two teaspoons of kefir grains to milk, it will ferment faster. If you want to delay the fermentation, you can add a lower quantity of grains and place the mixture in the refrigerator. One can get full lactose free kefir only by adding lactase to kefir after fermentation. And its not just from reading papers. If kefir grains were able to convert all the lactose to lactic acid, the resulting ph would be about 2.8-3.1 depending on the milk source (this is a complex computation). Add ¼ cup sugar in each, stirring to mostly dissolve. ( Feel free to make sugar mixture first) Add ¼ cup kefir grains to each jar. Add ¼ cup kefir water to each jar (optional–you can obviously only do this after your first batch of kefir, so just leave it out for the first batch.) Add ¼ of a lemon wedge to each jar. Kn6a.