Yogurt - instructions for homemade

June is Dairy Month, so we chose to celebrate that versatile and increasingly popular dairy product-yogurt.

You can make yogurt at home without special equipment or you can treat yourself to the convenience of a Yogurt Maker.

Course Others
Prep. Time 35 mins
Yields 10 100 ml each

Preparation
Comments (2)

Preparation

What You Need

4 cups (1 l) of whole or

2% Milk

1/4 cup (50 ml) of plain yogurt

Instructions

Here's how to do it: heat a quart /1 L of whole or 2% Milk almost to boiling. Cool the Milk to lukewarm- test a drop on the inside of your wrist.

Stir in a 1/4 cup / 50 ml of plain yogurt as a starter. Stir the Milk and starter gently together and pour into clean containers.

Cover tightly and leave overnight in a warm place: your yogurt should be ready by morning. Once it has thickened, keep it refrigerated. (The Yogurt Maker works on the same principle, incubating the sealed jars at just the right temperature.)

The first time you make yogurt you will have to buy fresh unflavoured yogurt made from Milk and bacterial culture to use as a starter. Keep a small quantity of your batch on hand to use as a starter next time.

Once you've learned to produce a consistency that is right for your own taste, try:

Adding honey or frozen juice concentrate.

Dressing it up with crushed berries or maple syrup.

Adding minced chives or garlic to yogurt for a treat on baked potatoes.

Freezing yogurt in ice cube trays or paper cups for the children.

Using it in recipes where you have always used sour cream.

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rpitcher
September 17th, 2011

We make yoghurt every few weeks. We use the simple ingredients as above. We simmer ther milk first. Then let it cool to room temperature before adding the starter yoghurt. We switch our regular oven light bulb for a regular 60 watt bulb. The 60 watt bulb creates just enough warmth in the oven for the yoghurt to work.
Mona
February 11th, 2010

During winters when it the temperatures are cold, making home-made yogurt is difficult. What I am doing, and helping me is: 1) I keep the yogurt starter+milk container near to a heating vent in my apartment for 6-8 hrs until the yogurt sets. The heat aids in the process; 2) I also sometimes warm the oven to 200°F and then turn off the oven and place the yogurt starter+milk container in the warmed oven for 6-8 hrs until the yogurt sets.