Fabulously Fermented: Kimchee

 Fermented foods are a great source of natural probiotics!  Adding fermented foods to your diet can help maintain healthy gut flora.  Your gut has good and bad forms of bacteria that can proliferate and cause an imbalance in your gut health.  It’s important to have more good than bad to maintain optimal health.

Here are some great food sources of probiotics:

• Yogurt

• Sauerkraut

• Kimchee

• Kombucha

• Miso

• Kefir

• Tempeh

• Pickles

• Olives

Make Your Own Kimchee

Ingredients:

• 2 large Chinese Cabbages, 230g (8 oz.)

• rock salt

• water

Sauce:

• 10 Tb fish sauce

• 10 Tb of red pepper powder

• 1 onion

• 4-5 cloves of garlic

• 1 oriental pear

• 1 Tb of salt

• ½ Tb of sugar

• small touch of ginger

• 4 spring onion

Directions:

1. Cut cabbages into chunks and soak in plenty of water with 180g (6 oz.) of salt

2. Soak for 4-5 hours

3. To make the sauce, place all ingredients in a blender except the spring onions

4. Blend until fine and slice onions into chunks and add to the mixture

5. Drain cabbage and mix with sauce until mixed together

6. This should be reasonably salty, but all more salt if needed

7. Put kimchee into large jars and leave in fridge for a week, then it will be ready to enjoy

8. You can store kimchee in fridge for 6-12 months or longer