How to make home-made yogurt :
Making your own yogurt really isn’t that difficult. If you follow some basic steps religously, then it should be a piece of cake. It was a few trial & error episodes with me andfinally happened to be successful. I have been making my own for a while. I thought i could share my tips here for you all.Ingredients :
2 cups of Milk (wither whole or 2% but not the fat free)
1 tsp of starter yogurt ( Any store bought yogurt with active/live culture in it. If you read that is written in the yogurt tub , it would say something like "All Natural with active or live culture)- keep it beaten well without lumps. And it should be in room temperature.
Procedure :
Pour the milk i na container and put it either on stove top or microwave and heat it until just before it could boil and raise up . You donot have to leave it until the milk would boil and raise up the vessel. Allow it to cool for a while . When u put in your last finger into the milk it should be luke warm as a baby's milk , that would be the perfect temperature. Add the starter yogurt to the lukewarm milk. and mix it well with an egg beater or a spatula.
Pour the milk in a container.
Since i live in cold place, i usually set up my oven for 5 to 10 mins at minimum temperature and put the container inside the oven wrapped with a blanker/towel. Now remember the most important thing is once you have set up the container in a place, you should not disturb it at all.
Leave it just for 8 hours and here you go , all natural and homemade yogurt!
Note :
Most important thing to be taken care of , while making yogurt at home is
1. Temperature of the milk
2. Starter yogurt with live/active culture. Starter yogurt at room temperature. well beaten without lumps. And just the right amount, say 1 tsps for 2 cups of milk.
why homemade is good over store bought yogurt?
Freshly home-made yogurt is filled with countless numbers of beneficial bacteria that help digestion and kill harmful viruses. The key here is fresh yogurt as compared to commercial store bought yogurt. The commercil yogurt that has been sitting on the shelves at the grocery store does not have the fresh active bacteria that homemade yogurt does.Therefore eat as fresh as you can. Have a healthy life.
