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May 14, 2025

Recipe: How to Make Fermented Garlic

Fermented garlic is the flavor upgrade your kitchen has been waiting for—bold, deeply savory, and bursting with rich umami flavor. Not only does lacto-fermenting garlic mellow out its sharp bite,...

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  • Recipe: Dill Pickle Carrot Sticks - FarmSteady
    April 4, 2021

    Recipe: Dill Pickle Carrot Sticks

    Lacto-fermented carrots are super easy to make and the perfect balance crunchy and sour. And these dill pickle carrots are one our favorites. Packed with lots of garlic and fresh dill, these carrots have all the flavor of a dill pickle but in carrot form.
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  • Recipe: Jalapeño Cilantro Lime Kraut - FarmSteady
    January 17, 2021

    Recipe: Jalapeño Cilantro Lime Kraut

    The flavor combinations in this kraut are fantastic and will surely wow even your most fermentation-skeptical friends. Plus using napa cabbage gives it a really fun texture that's closer to some of our favorite Asian ferments.
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  • How to Make a Ginger Bug - FarmSteady
    October 12, 2020

    How to Make a Ginger Bug

    A ginger bug is a starter culture that can be used to make delicious ginger beer and naturally fermented sodas. Wild yeast from the environment and the skin of the ginger is cultivated to kickstart the fermentation process. Creating your own ginger bug starter is really easy, you only need three ingredients and five days to grow your ginger bug.
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  • Recipe: Smoked Poblano Fermented Hot Sauce - FarmSteady
    September 23, 2020

    Recipe: Smoked Poblano Fermented Hot Sauce

    This fermented smoked hot sauce is a delicate balance between fresh and smoked poblano peppers with the addition of a few serrano peppers for extra heat. We’ve also added white onion and garlic to create a depth of flavor and to bring out the smokey and peppery tones from the poblanos, giving you a delicious smoked and lacto-fermented hot sauce.
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  • Recipe: Sourdough Crackers - FarmSteady
    September 3, 2020

    Recipe: Sourdough Crackers

    Homemade sourdough crackers are delicious, super easy, and one of our all-time favorite ways to help use up extra sourdough starter. If you have your own starter, you know that it needs to be routinely fed and used. And when...

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  • Recipe: Fermented Turmeric Onions - FarmSteady
    February 12, 2020

    Recipe: Fermented Turmeric Onions

    Fermented onions are one of the easiest and tastiest ferments to make. If you open our fridge, we can pretty much guarantee that we always have a jar of lacto-fermented onions tucked somewhere. And these turmeric onions are one of our favorites.
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  • How to make mango habanero fermented hot sauce
    January 19, 2020

    Recipe: Mango Habanero Fermented Hot Sauce

    This Fermented Mango Habanero Hot Sauce recipe is tropical and delightfully spicy. This homemade hot sauce uses lacto-fermentation to add layers of complex flavor. Bell pepper, onion and fresh ginger round out the flavor profile. And if habaneros are too hot for you, Fresno peppers work beautifully in this recipe too.
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  • Recipe: Concord Grape Kombucha - FarmSteady
    October 25, 2019

    Recipe: Concord Grape Kombucha

    Some people will say that you’re crazy to brew a kombucha without tea. Kombucha is literally fermented tea! But rest assured, you can brew this Concord Grape Kombucha and be considered, not only sane, but a kombucha genius. Why’s that? Because this kombucha is so good and so unique from just about any kombucha you’ve tasted. It has some of the best grape flavor you can imagine. We look forward to concord grape season every year so that we can make a few batches of this and share it with friends.
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  • How to Make Cultured Butter - FarmSteady
    August 30, 2019

    How to Make Cultured Butter

    Cultured butter is rich, tangy, calls for only two ingredients and is incredibly easy to make. In this recipe you’ll learn the whole process from cream selection, culturing, churning and washing your homemade butter so that you can make your own cultured butter from scratch.
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  • Recipe: Fermented Cherries - FarmSteady
    June 19, 2019

    Recipe: Fermented Cherries

    Fermented cherries are salty, tangy and super savory: kind of like the love child of a maraschino cherry and an olive. Which is probably why one of our favorite uses is plunked into a cocktail. If you’re looking for something sweet: make pie. But if you want to take a walk on the savory side these fermented cherries are excellent on a cheese board, as a tangy pizza topping (think white pies) and as a fun twist on a cocktail garnish.
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  • Tips for Fermenting in Hot Weather - FarmSteady
    June 13, 2019

    Tips for Fermenting in Hot Weather

    Fermenting in the summer heat can be tricky. If you have been fermenting for a bit, you may have noticed that recipes you make all the time are suddenly behaving quite differently when temperatures rise. But with a few adjustments you can successfully ferment all summer long.

    And really, were you going to pass up on fermented hot sauce, classic dill pickles, and freshly made kraut with all the peak-season produce? We didn’t think so. But keep these tips in mind when you are fermenting in the heat.

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