My family like eating yogurt. I did not like yogurt due to my first experience with it, my pottery teacher back in Indonesia made one and it was very sour. I hate sour, so I hated yogurt. My pottery teacher here in Canada convinced me to try yogurt, so I did. It is pretty good, but they are not cheap.
I look up on the internet, it seemed kind of complicated with the temperature, the sanitizing and stuff. So, I kept looking and looking until I found one that seemed simple enough.
Here is the original website where I found the how to make yogurt : http://girlsguidetobutter.com/2011/11/fool-proof-homemade-yogurt-science-techniques-and-troubleshooting/
Here is how I do it:
ingredients:
- 2 Litter milk
- one tablespoon plain yogurt for starter
what you need:
- a cooking pot/saucepan big enough to fit the milk
- spoon
- meat or candy thermometer
- a cup
- clean containers
- bath towel
How to:
- Heat milk until it reach 180 F, make sure it does not boil over by keep stirring.
- Turn the stove off and wait till the milk is 110 F. If it is too cold just re heat until it reach 110 F
- Take about half a cup of warm milk into a cup and put one tablespoon yogurt in it, stir up and down and side to side.
- Stir the mixture into the pot and stir up and down and side to side.
- After you stir it good, put them in clean container. I just put it in any plastic container or old yogurt container.
- Lay the bath towel over a baking pan, put the containers on the towel, wrap it up and put in the oven with the light on. I usually turn on the oven for a bit before I put the containers in there, just to warm it up a bit.
- Leave it for 8 hours (people like to make it before bed time so they can leave it undisturbed all night long).
One time some of the containers still liquid, so I just move it around closer to the light and leave it for another couple of hours.
- Store in the fridge. Should be good for about a week or two.
- take a table spoon and store in the freezer for your next batch starter, so you don't have to buy anymore yogurt. If you don't make it regularly, apparently the frozen one stays good in the freezer for three months. I just take it out when I plan to make the new batch, so it thaw out before mixing it with warm milk.
The yogurt tastes so smooth and not sour at all. I eat it every day now drizzle with honey. I tried it with my homemade strawberry jam and it is so yummy.
Too bad my daughter does not like it, and my husband thought the texture is off. They are so used to the store bought ones, or we usually buy yogurt that already mixed with fruit, or just fruit flavoured, no actual fruit pieces in it, I can only make plain yogurt then mix it with fruit. Maybe I should experiment putting some blended fruit with the milk (I will let you know if it actually works). My son is liking it if I put it in magic bullet with frozen mangoes and I throw in some sugar, so it is like the drinkable yogurt mango flavour. My friend and neighbour are loving it though. Anyway I am still making this as part of my healthy diet. Well, I got to take care of me, too, right :), and I surely share with my friends and neighbour, too.
I am still persuading my family to keep trying it, maybe one day they will like it.
