Prepare for winter, strengthen immunity and support digestion. In the intestines, not only digestion of food takes place, but also the use of all nutrients and maintaining the balance of the organism. The most easily we can support bowel function, for example with probiotics. These live bacteria can be found in yogurt, kefir, sourdough, buttermilk, but also in blue cheeses or fermented foods, such as the popular sauerkraut, fermented cereals or beverages.

Ingredience:
1 Chinese sauerkraut, 50 g sea salt, 850 ml water, 20 g ground chilli, 40 g rice flour, 8 g ground sweet paprika, 2 carrots, ½ white radish, 1 leek, 2 spring onions, 1 large apple, 70 g fresh ginger, 3 cloves garlic, 100 fish sauce

How to do it?
1. Chop the Chinese sauerkraut into 4 x 4-cm cubes and toss into a big bowl. Stir salt into 300 ml water, pour it over the sauerkraut and leave it to rest for 12-15 hours, occasionally stirring.
2. Warm up 500 ml water in a pot, add chilli and bring to the boil. Meanwhile stir rice flour into 50 ml cold water to make a thick porridge. Pour the porridge into the water with the chilli, add ground paprika and keep stirring. Then let it rest and cool.
3. Peel carrots and white radish and cut them into small noodles (julienne) or grind them through a grater. Wash leek properly, cut it into thick slices and cut spring onions into thicker slices. Strain sauerkraut and mix it with your vegetables.
4. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut it into slices. Peel the ginger and garlic and mix them (using a smoothies mixer) with fish sauce and apple until smooth. Pour this mixture into the spiced rice flour mix, stir well and pour over the vegetables.
5. Cover your mixture with a lid, let it rest for at least 3 days at room temperature to ferment. After that put it into the fridge.