You can make kombucha yourself, but it takes a long time and the result, especially if you are doing it for the first time, can be unpredictable.
For cooking, you need two tablespoons of sugar, 7-10 grams of leaf tea and two tablespoons of diluted apple cider vinegar (6%) per 500 ml of boiling water.
Insist for a month and a half until the body of the tea mushroom begins to appear. Then separate it and continue according to our recipe.
Or you can buy it somewhere and use it in recipe.
Recipe:
Prepare black, green or herbal tea. Dilute the tea leaves with hot water, add sugar and leave for 15 minutes
Strain the infusion, cool it to room temperature and pour it into a jar
Put the mushroom there, cover with gauze and put it in a warm dark place. For young mushrooms, it is recommended to add 100 ml of tea infusion from the previous jar, where the mushroom was infused
After 5-10 days, a delicious drink is ready. Rinse the mushroom and put it in a new jar with prepared tea
If you want to get a spicy fizzy tea with gas, pour the finished infusion into a glass container, close it tightly and keep it in a cool place for 5 days