Everyone who has visited Greece or Cyprus must have tried Greek weight loss yogurt. Outwardly, it resembles sour cream, but at the same time more useful and light. Typically, this natural product is offered in hotels for breakfast. It can be eaten in pure form or watered with jam, syrup or honey. It also goes well with chocolate and other sweet flakes. And you can add chopped fruits (for example, orange or fragrant peach) to Greek yogurt for weight loss or pour berries. You must admit that such a dish is a very tasty and healthy breakfast.
Healthy and delicious Greek yogurt
Thick yogurt can be used as dressing for salads or as a sauce for poultry, meat, fish and so on. More and more bodybuilders are interested in a product like Greek yogurt. Where to buy the mentioned product? Yes, in the same place as ordinary dairy products. While in the supermarket, pay attention to the shelf with yoghurts. But you can cook it yourself, at home.
Cook at home
Traditional Greek slimming yogurt is made from sheep’s milk, to which yogurt culture is added. Yogurt is fermented, and then excess whey is removed. But since we can hardly find sheep’s milk, we’ll use ordinary milk — cow’s milk, preferably domestic.
So, how to cook Greek
yogurt? The recipe is quite simple. You will need milk and yogurt sourdough. As a starter culture, you can use any
natural yogurt with a short shelf life - Bulgarian yogurt, yogurt
, matsun, acidified sour cream or products called “Activia” without additives.
Now an important nuance: sour cream does not contain Bulgarian sticks, so it ferments milk worse. Further, the starter culture for making homemade yogurt - it does not matter if you use yogurt or sour cream - should not contain starch, thickeners and other additives. Also note that yogurt should not be shaken, as this makes it more liquid.
How to cook Greek yogurt
Greek slimming yogurt is prepared in the same way as regular yogurt. Only one step is added - whey decantation.
1. Initially, you need to boil milk and wait until it cools to room temperature. Then the milk needs to be filtered to remove the foam.
2. When the milk has cooled to a temperature of 35-40 degrees, add starter or ready-made yogurt to it.
3. Fermented milk is put in the yogurt maker for 9 hours.
4. Ready yogurt cannot be stirred, it must be carefully poured into a sieve, after covering the last with clean gauze. Then the yogurt is covered with a film or a lid and left in the refrigerator until the whey drains.
5. After 6-10 hours, Greek slimming yogurt is ready to eat. By density, the product resembles Adyghe cheese.
Serum from yogurt can be used for baking, for example, for the preparation of lush cakes with filling. By the way, it is undesirable to store Greek yogurt for a long time, since this product is completely natural, does not contain preservatives and stabilizers, and therefore quickly deteriorates.