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12/2018 lacto-fermentation of pomegranate seeds #1

Open rick opened 5 years ago

rick commented 5 years ago

Attempting to follow the advice of The Noma Guide to Fermentation, deciding to lacto-ferment pomegranate seeds.

I got off to an auspicious start.

acquisition

I should've bought them last week, evidently. Turns out there were enough sequestered on the property to make a decent batch of ferment.

Processing

Seeded 6 pomegranates

This ended up producing ~770g of pomegranate seeds

Somehow immediately getting the "2% of weight in salt" math incorrect by an order of magnitude, I weighed out ~155g of salt, when ~15g was called for

Damn, that's a lot of salt.

I double-checked the numbers and realized the error.
It sucks to rinse and retry -- especially since rinsing the salt off without rinsing the lacto bacteria from the fruit is pretty difficult, but I did it anyway
re-measured the salt, re-added, re-mixed, and make two batches

Cheesecloth, and put up to ferment at room temperature

rick commented 5 years ago

After 1 day:

After 2 days:

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After 3 days

rick commented 5 years ago

8 days in

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Drained liquid from ferment

Placed in jar, put in refrigerator

rick commented 5 years ago

Drained lacto-fermented pomegranate seeds

rick commented 5 years ago

Flat freezing one batch

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Flat dehydrating one batch

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Pureed some seeds in food processor (picture not preset, evidently)

Then tried with yogurt and honey. Pretty dope.