How to make good yogurt at home without a machine. The word yogurt comes from Turkey and refers to a tart, thick milk.
The origin of yogurt is not singular to any culture, it has always been around cultures that kept animals for milk. Yogurt is a sourish food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as “yogurt cultures”
Homemade yogurt is great and very very easy for anyone, all you need is milk and a few spoonfuls of your favorite plain yogurt to use as a starter culture. After the first, you don’t need to buy plain yogurt to use as a starter anymore as you can always preserve some of your own to use as a starter for the next batch.
Yogurt will always use Yogurt as a starter so wonder how the very first-ever yogurt was made, what was used as a starter?
Here, I took step by step pictures of the making of this delicious yogurt with my phone, up to
when the chilled yogurt was being poured in a cup but surprisingly I want to upload to the blog and pics of the final stage are missing.
Ingredients for Homemade Yogurt without a machine:
- 6 cups of milk
- 10 tablespoons milk powder
- 6 tablespoons plain store-bought yogurt
You can use a yogurt machine if you have one.
Just three ingredients and my yogurt are ready.
Homemade Yogurt Procedure:
First I combined the 6 tablespoons of milk with the milk powder to form a thick paste. We then added the remaining milk while whisking to ensure there are no lumps.
Next, I emptied from the bowl into a pot and turned on the heat almost to the boiling point. When it got close to the boiling point, I realized some scum settling on the surface which we scooped when the pot was taken off the heat.
The hot mixture is poured into the pot in the picture and left until it is lukewarm.
I blended 9 tablespoons of the lukewarm milk with the plain store-bought yogurt and then slowly poured them back into the pot with the remaining lukewarm yogurt. I wrapped very well with cling film, you can use foil paper.
We wrapped the pot in a thick blanket, left undisturbed for a whole day. When I checked, it wasn’t as thick as I wanted. so I just left it for over 24 hours and when I opened again, the result was amazing. The delicious yogurt was chilled before serving and it was rushed.
The kids kept asking for more until I promised to make some more before schools resume.
Homemade yogurt TIP: without a machine
Keep some of your yogurts in a sealed container in the fridge to use as a starter for your next batch of yogurt. Though I added no fruits but sweetened a little for the kids. They wanted sweet, yogurt. You can add fruits and nuts to your yogurt before serving. fruits add beautiful colours and make your yogurt drink look really appetizing.
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Wowwww! This is what I always wanted to learn but couldn't find where. Thanks for sharing our simple steps.
Nice one aunty..pls ma did u use the normal peak milk and what kind of plain yogurt did u use as your starter?
Ways plain yogurt ad where cn it b gotten?
PLS WHICH IS PLAIN STORE BOUGHT YOGURT, IS IT SOLD IN D SHOP AND THAT IS JUST THE NAME ITS CALLED
Any yogurt sold in stores.
Thanks for sharing this ma'am