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Homemade Sauerkraut for Gut Health

Making your own sauerkraut at home is easy, safe, delicious, and healthy. Expect a crunchy texture and delightfully sour taste, harboring your gut's best friends in every bite.
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Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 14 d
Course Side Dish

Equipment

  • 32 oz mason jar
  • Fermentation weight or rock

Ingredients
  

  • 1 head cabbage
  • 2-3 tbsp salt more or less. You need about 2 teaspoons per pound.

Instructions
 

  • Chop cabbage
  • Massage cabbage with salt
  • Let soak in its own juices for 20 minutes
  • Put in mason jar
  • Push everything down
  • Add cabbage leaves on top
  • Add weight
  • Screw on lid finger tight
  • Let ferment for 14 days
Keyword sauerkraut
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