80+ Ways & Recipes To Use Milk Kefir

Got milk kefir and not sure how to use it? Here are 70+ ways & recipes to use it. Here are now 80+ ways to use milk kefir!

Some things you should know:

• What kefir ?
• What are fermented foods?
• How to make milk kefir.
• Storing kefir for ripening & reducing lactose
• Kefirpedia

There are a lot of recipes around the internet for using the fermented milk product, kefir so I thought I would make a big list to help inspire you to use kefir and not get bored with using it, if it’s a part of your diet. The easiest way and tastiest way, to me, is to make kefir is in a smoothie or to serve kefir with berries.

Kefir can be used just about anywhere that buttermilk, yoghurt or cream cheese may be used. Other great ways to use kefir are:

• In smoothies
• To tenderize meat instead of yoghurt
• Served with fruit
• In a cold soup
• In an ice cream recipe
• Poured over cereal
• Used instead of yoghurt to make
• In a healthy milkshake recipe
• As a leavening agent
• In place of buttermilk in baking
• As a starter for a sourdough recipe
• To make a herbed cream cheese, or a fruit-flavoured cream cheese
• To ferment grains or flours
• To help dephytinize grains, cereals, nuts and seeds
• In a salad dressing
• In a pasta sauce
• To make proboiotic drinks

Yesterday I showed you a simple and delicious recipe for milk kefir.

This milk kefir recipe was raspberry and lemon flavoured– delicious! I would recommend it as a great simple recipe for those new to kefir.

Pizza dough made with kefir:

Jaffa kefir (organic kefir with blood orange and chocolate!):

Purple kefir smoothie:

Now, below I present to you the largest list I could make of kefir recipes from around the web! If you know any great recipes I haven’t linked to please let me know and I’ll add it to the list (as long as it isn’t too similar to any listed recipe).

Please note: that even though these recipes contain kefir, other ingredients in the recipes may not be the healthiest, so use your best judgment and substitute for healthier ingredients where you can.

Big list of Kefir recipes:

1. Homemade Organic Kefir with Raspberries & Lemon Zest (healthfoodlover.com)
2. Raw Milk Kefir
3. Vanilla Kefir Ice Cream 
4. Kefir-Leban
5. Kefir Cottage Cheese
6. Gayle’s Passionfruit & Kefir Cheesecake
7. Chocolate Zucchini Kefir Cake
8. Lemon Kefir Ice Cream
9. Lemon Yogurt Kefir Ice Box Pie & Sprouted Graham Crackers
10. Kefir Coconut Ice Cream With Mango Soup
11. Kefir Waldorf Salad
12. Peanut Butter Kefir Pie
13. Kefir Snowballs with Plum Filling
14. Kefir Ccantaloupe
15. Kefir Fruit Dip
16. Coconut Milk Kefir
17. Mediterranean Kefir Buns
18. Milk-Free Kefir Sourdough Bread
19. Kefir Flat Bread
20. Pumpkin Cobbler Topping
21. Kefir Scone Recipe
22. Organic Kefir With Blood Oranges and Dark Chocolate (Jaffa Kefir)
23. Pumpkin Cookies
24. Quick Kefir Sourdough Bread
25. Whole Wheat Kefir Pancakes with Bluberry Sauce
26. Calcium Rich Kefir Cocktail & Garden Salad Kefir Lunch Express
27. Wings Of Life Bread
28. Kefir Bread Spread; Kefir Cocktails; Kefir Rolls; Kefir Bread; Kefir Strawberry Dessert
29. Kefir Cheese
30. Chocolate Kefir Power Smoothie
31. Maple Rose Kefir
32. Kefir-Kraut
33. Okroshka (Cold Russian Summer Soup)
34. Lemon Kefir Cake with Lemon Ginger Marmalade
35. Kefir Croutons
36. Kefir Ice Cream Sandwiches
37. Strawberry Lemon Kefir Smoothie
38. Chai Kefir Parfait 
39. Strawberry Kefir Lemon Pie
40. Apple Kefir Breakfast
41. Kefir Claus
42. The Butterfly
43. Kefir & Fruit Cilantro Salad
44. The Water Butterfly
45. Kefir Charmer
46. Herbal Kefir Liver Blush
47. Yorkshire Curd Tart or Cheese Cake
48. Fluffy Kefir Pancakes
49. Kefir Cream Pudding
50. Dairy-Free Kefir Ice Cream with Mixed Berries, No Ice Cream-Maker Required
51. Chocolate Kefir Smoothie
52. Kefir Smoothie: Frozen Summer Fruit Delish!
53. Tricolored Berry & Kefir Popsicles for July 4th
54. Kefir Cheese Cake Recipe
55. Lemon Kefir Soup
56. Em’s Spring Green Kefir Soup
57. Sweetheart Cookies With Kefir
58. Creamy Kefir Salad Dressing or Fake “RANCH”
59. Cold Avocado and Kefir Soup
60. Buttermilk Kefir Chicken
61. Raw Kefir Cheesecake
62. Coconut Kefir Cookie
63. Kefir Preserving Brine
64. Cucumber Yoghurt or Kefir Salad
65. Kefir Custard Fruit Tart
66. Super Green Kefir Smoothie
67. Kefir Poppy Seed Dressing
68. Apricot Mint Dessert
69. Cinnamon Basil Grape Soda
70. Probiotic Potato Salad
71. Fermented Cranberry-Orange-Apple Relish
72. Blackberry Kefir Smoothie
73. Quinoa Kefir Berry Cookies
74. Turkey Waldorf Salad with Raw Kefir (Video)
75. Kefir Morning Smoothie
76. Cabbage-Kefir Stuffed Potatoes
77. Kefir Butter
78. Parsley Mayo
79. Iced Koffuca Latte
80. Sour Cream/Kefir Raisin Bars
81. Apple Pie Kefir Ice Cream
82. Kefir Klaus
83. Unique and Yummy Kefir Drink
84. Sprouted Strawberry Scones with Lemon Kefir Yogurt Topping
85. Lemon Kefir Smoothie
86. Russian Kefir Pancakes (Oladi) Recipe
87. Pumpkin Polenta with Kefir-Honey-Walnut Sauce
88. Organic Kefir with Blood Orange and Dark Chocolate
    

Using Kefir Topically:

1. Kefir Face Mask
2. Latta Russian Kefir Mask

Michelle

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