- Comprehensive Guide: Rita introduces her cookbook “Everything Stevia,” a 160-page, full-color cookbook that includes a wide range of recipes using homemade stevia extract—from granola to muffins, and more.
- DIY Stevia Extract: The video tutorial shows how to make stevia extract at home, emphasizing that it's simple and only requires basic skills like boiling water, stirring, and straining. Rita demonstrates the process using dried stevia leaves from her garden.
- Gardening and Resources: The first part of the cookbook focuses on detailed gardening tips for stevia. Rita plans to sell stevia seeds and possibly the herb itself in the future, promoting her website for resources and updates.
- Back to Basics and Variants: Rita's cookbook includes a “Back to Basics” section with recipes for dairy and vegan yogurts, various milks, sourdough, and more. An eBook version of this section is available separately.
- Eliminating Bitterness and Enhancing Flavor: Rita explains the importance of a specific step in the extract-making process that eliminates the bitterness associated with stevia, thus preventing the metallic taste often found in commercial products. She also discusses how to balance flavors in recipes when using stevia as a substitute for traditional sweeteners.
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We made the stevia following your instructions. It turned out great. But….the jar of stored stevia we had in the fridge (almost a quart) lost all of its sweetness after 2 weeks. It now tastes like nasty tea. What could have happened? Please let us know what you think.
I’m awaiting my first round of stevia to steep. I’m so excited! Thank you so much for sharing this process with us!!!! You’re a gift!!!
Ahh thank you so much! I'm so excited to try to make homemade as it's sooo expensive in the store haha.
So happy I found your page! ❤❤
Thanks for that great video! I've just started to keto and actually i had no idea what is stevia before watch this. Can i ask you how much extract should i use subsitute for regular white sugar? I mean proportionately. Thanks again. 🙂
Hi I’m new. Where do I find the ebook cookbook? I’m in the USA and the price to ship the actual book is more then the book itself, so I’m hoping for the ebook. Thanks. 😊
Thank you, the information is very helpful.
By the way, may I ask a few questions? My English is not very good, so I haven't fully understood some of the information.
How many milliliters of water are there in 8 cups of water? (How many milliliters are in 1 cup?)
After heating the water to 80°C, should the water be left to cool down before pouring it over the dried stevia leaves (including the steeping time), or should it be poured directly?
I'm in Indonesia, where the normal temperature is 24-32°C. What is the room temperature for fermenting the stevia?
Thanks
Is it ok if we do this process only two times??
I ordered dried stevia and a live plant from Richters here in Ontario and I am in the process of making a batch to try. I can see little stems and flower casings in the dry mix, so I figure it is from plants that have flowered already. boo. I am not anticipating bitterness but it will probably happen. I really do not like stevia in any form. If this is bitter I will wait until my stevia plant grows leaves and hopefully I can get a good enough harvest from it before it flowers to try this method. I will let you know how it goes. I also ordered one of your fiction books from Amazon for my daughter to read. Looking forward to read good clean fiction romance. 💕
Hello, love your video and I’m going to order the book. Quick question though- I recently dried leaves on a screen from my plants and wondered if I could still do this method now that they’re dried and brown or do I just need to grind those and use them bitter and start with fresh leaves to make the liquid? Thank you!
Hi Rita, I watched your video with amazement. Thank you very much for the informative video. For the sherbet of baklava in Turkey, we boil 3 cups of water with 3 cups (200 ml) of sugar for 15-20 minutes and pour it over the hot baklava when it cools down. How much stevia extract do you think I need to use for 3 cups of sugar (600 ml)? I was very curious how Stevia Baklava would be.
loved this video. most of other videos were using vodka but i wanted to make an extract without that. thank you for sharing. 👏
I just downloaded your eBook Everything Stevia and did a quick browse through it. The amount of details you included in it is rare for a book. Thank you soooo much! Can't wait to get started.
I always avoided Stevia as I get bitter after taste. I am going to try this method. Thanks.
Was it not good, if you shared how much quantity use in different dishes/drinks. Good vlog overall.. thanks 👍
Does your book include how to make the extract from using Green Stevia powder?
I just did my one stevia plant with vodka will find out tomorrow how that goes once I burn the alcohol out. But I have another stevia plant I will be for sure trying this out. I believe I would like this better plus save me money don't have to keep buying vodka
I tried to go to the website and it seems to be down or no longer usable
I want to order your hard copy book. Where to go, pls include your website but readers can’t find it.
Who knew you can make stevia extract with water??? Oh, well, you do and now I do too. YESSSS!!!! I am so against alcohol and this is a perfect alternative. I am hoping to try this soon. I will have to purchase some dried stevia since I have none at home. Thank you so much for your video and amazing knowledge. It helps so much.
If you freeze it in ice cube trays, you can melt one cube to use for one or two weeks, but I would still keep even that in the refrigerator.
I no longer see tour ebook available on your shop. How can i get it?
Hey, I bought dried stevia aleeady chopped. It sort of smells like hay. Is that normal? I wasn't expecting that. Or is there possibly grass in it?
This is interesting. Every other site says not to boil or it will be bitter, but no one else does that first quick rinse. I'm going to try this but on a much smaller amount as I am the only person using it.
How do you can the stevia extract?
Hello. I just downloaded your ebook Everything Stevia and WOW, it's a gold mine of information. Thank you!
Amazing video! I love that you are doing different experiments such as keeping a sampler for a year and adding all of this good information into the video. Thanks! 🙂
Very informative thank you
I have made a few batches of this stevia and water extract. My 26-year-old son and I love it. After the first batch, I just threw out the stevia leaves for my chickens. The following 2 batches I decided to save the used leaves. I dried them in the oven and ground them into powder. I am going to use the stevia powder in my tooth powder that I make to sweeten it. I don't need much sweetness so this works beautifully!
super dooper video, thank you thank you
I'm a year late but thank you for this wonderful video. Currently exploring the options for clean sources of stevia. True, I was originally turned right off of stevia due to the bitter products we were buying. We even had to throw away a product that turned out to be mostly sugar anyway. Planning on eventually growing and processing our own.