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Julie ConradCreamy Homemade Yogurt Recipe
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.
Homemade Plain or Vanilla Yogurt
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
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.
Enjoy your delicious healthful yogurt!