Yogurt is a tasty and healthy treat that is liked by both children and adults. However, store products can not always please with quality and taste. The abundance of preservatives, sugar, thickeners, flavorings, colorings indicates the unnaturalness of purchased yoghurts. In order not to give up your favorite fermented milk product, it is worth mastering the simplest recipe for making homemade yogurt without using a yogurt maker.
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You will need
- - 1 liter pasteurized or baked milk;
- - 1-2 jars of natural yogurt (no additives) or pharmacy sourdough;
- - a small metal pan;
- - a tablespoon.
Instruction manual
1
To make natural yogurt yourself, boil milk. It is best to heat it already in the container in which you will ferment the product. It can be a metal small pan. Leave the milk to cool, at this time you should get natural yogurt from the refrigerator or dilute the leaven according to the instructions.
2
The milk should cool down to 40 degrees, check the temperature by lowering your finger in the liquid. The temperature should be comfortable. Add yogurt from jars to milk - you can take both one jar or two, it all depends on taste preferences. Or leaven if you use it. Yogurt should not be cold so that milk does not cool more than necessary.
3
Stir the milk well, cover the pan with the lid and wrap it in a towel. To ferment yogurt without a yogurt maker, you need to put a container with mass in a warm place. For example, next to a battery. Or in the microwave, just close the door for this - in a limited space, the milk will cool more slowly.
4
Soak the product for at least 6-8 hours. You can leave the fermented yogurt from evening to night to serve a delicious and truly healthy treat for breakfast.
5
After fermentation, mix the yogurt. If all the recommendations have been followed, it will turn out thick and tender.
6
You can use the resulting natural yogurt for re-fermentation. To do this, leave 150 g or more of the product in the refrigerator after cooking, closing the lid tightly. Ferment yogurt repeatedly, each time separating a certain proportion of the cooked, you can 3-4 times. Then you will need to take new yogurt without additives from the store or sourdough.
note
The shelf life of homemade yogurt is no more than 3-4 days. However, for sure, you and your loved ones will enjoy the cooked recipe so much that the product does not have to be stored for a long time.
Useful advice
You can eat homemade yogurt prepared without a yogurt maker without any additives. And you can mix a fermented milk product with jam, jam, natural juice, pieces of fruit, berries.