How to make yoghurt tutorial

Here’s my first tutorial. I hope it’s helpful and that it inspires you to try making your own yoghurt. I’ve kept up making my own here at home and I can’t see myself going back to store bought.

You’ll need:

Milk (Go organic)

Earthen bowl

Yoghurt Starter (already made yoghurt, either by you or store bought)

2 Quart sauce pan (just make sure your milk will not overflow)

Small/Medium Blanket

Measuring cup (though after a while you’ll just know how much milk to pour)

Directions:

My suggestion would be to make the yoghurt at night. For one, in summer, you’re more likely to switch on the AC than the stove. But also, the yoghurt needs to set for 6-8 hours. I actually don’t know if there’s a minimum- it kinda all depends on the recipe you use. I basically leave it overnight and don’t touch, look or even think about it (if I can) until morning.

1. Following the pictures above you want to have your supplies ready. The thing to know is that you want to have your starter (the already made yoghurt that’s going to help grow the yoghurt you’re making) at room temperature. So just pull it out when you start the process.

2. Then, measure out about 1,100 mL of milk. That gives me about a quart of yoghurt.

3. Put the milk to boil but don’t actually let it boil all the way. Getting the milk too warm will funkify it and your yoghurt won’t grow. The picture sorta illustrates that you’re letting little bubbles come up on the sides. At that point, turn off the heat.

4. Pour it out into an earthen bowl. Place the bowl onto an open blanket (you’ll wrap the bowl in this blanket later). This earthen bowl thing is key. This means a ceramic bowl. I pulled out a bowl I made in my high school ceramics class and finally put it regular rotation.

5. After about 5 minutes (the milk should be “touchable” but not “burnable”), mix in about 4 dollops of your pre made yoghurt (the starter).

6. Gently stir.

7. Cover with a large plate.

8. Wrap blanket around bowl and plate.

9. After about 6-8 hours, unwrap the blanket, take off the plate and voila! You have made yoghurt. Don’t worry about the little bit of water on the top- mine has it and it just gets mixed in. Now you can choose a container and put the yoghurt in it and place it in the fridge.

It may also look runnier than store-bought yoghurt but that’s because you haven’t added thickeners. In my opinion, home made yoghurt (even though it’s plain) doesn’t taste as plain as the plain store-bought stuff.

Enjoy! And let me know if I can help.