You can make delicious and healthy yogurt at home, if for some reason you do not want to buy sour-milk dairy products. To do this, you need to use milk of a certain fat content and the main component is yogurt sourdough. What is such leaven and where can I buy it?
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Yogurt sourdough allows you to cook natural yogurt without too much trouble. It contains no preservatives, flavorings, dyes or other chemicals. And most importantly, for the manufacture of homemade yogurt does not require special knowledge, equipment and exotic products.
Where to buy yogurt sourdough
Sourdough for yogurt is sold in pharmacies. It is a white powder, also such a component can be purchased at the All-Russian Research Institute of Dairy Products. A small sourdough bubble will last long.
Often, store yogurt is used to make homemade yogurt. It contains a scanty amount of nutrients, plus to that, when storing the product, pathogenic microflora or E. coli appears in its composition. Moreover, it is constantly growing, which can lead to foodborne infections.
You can mix yogurt sourdough with pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized milk. It is not recommended to use sterilized milk, because during its production, the drink loses vitamins and other valuable substances. Also by this technology stabilizers are added to milk.
Liquid starter should be stored only in the refrigerator, the shelf life is two weeks.