The taste of fresh, creamy yogurt can’t be beat! Good quality ingredients, a warm place to incubate the milk and a little of your time is all it takes to produce nourishing, delicious yogurt full of healthy probiotics. Incorporating healthy probiotics into our daily diet helps to support a healthy immune and digestive system.
The higher fat content of whole milk will produce a creamy, nutritionally dense yogurt. Go to your local grocery store and purchase fresh, local milk. Even better, visit your local dairy. You will also need a yogurt starter. This can be a yogurt culture purchased from a cheese making company or a high quality plain, probiotic yogurt purchased from the grocery store.
The directions below describe making yogurt in a sauce pan. At the end of the post we describe how to use an Instant Pot.
You will also need a working cooking thermometer.
Creamy Homemade Yogurt Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 quart 4 cups whole milk
- 1 Tablespoon plain yogurt or starter
- If you would like to make vanilla yogurt you will also need:
- 2 Tablespoons Organic Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla
Instructions
Stove Top Instructions
- Heat the milk to 180F
- If making vanilla yogurt, add sugar to the milk before heating up.
- Take the yogurt off the heat and cool to 110F.
- Add the starter to the warm milk and stir well.
- If you are making vanilla yogurt, add the vanilla.
- Pour the warm, cultured milk into a glass quart jar.
- Place jar into a container like a thermos or cooler
- Add 100F water around the jars
- Incubate for 8 hours
- Remove jar from container and refrigerate until cooled completely.
Instant Pot Directions:
- Place milk in Instant Pot pan.
- If making vanilla yogurt, add sugar to the milk before heating up.
- Use the saute mode bring the milk temperature to 180F. Stir a few times.
- Remove the pan from the Instant Pot, cool milk to 110F.
- Add starter to the warm milk and stir well.
- If you are making vanilla yogurt, add the vanilla.
- Pour the warm, cultured milk into a quart jar.
- Fill the Instant Pot pan ⅓ full with warm (100-110F) water.
- Place jar into the Instant Pot.
- Put Instant Pot lid on and select the yogurt mode.
- Set timer for 8 hours. This not a pressurized cycle.
- Chill yogurt completely in the refrigerator.
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