If you have an electric yogurt maker in your home, then preparing this tasty and healthy sour-milk product is only a matter of minutes. More precisely, it will take you 5 minutes to prepare all the necessary ingredients. After this, the device without your participation will begin to produce a delicious dietary product. Cooking yogurt in a yogurt maker takes up to 10 hours. If you are still thinking about buying this miracle device or not, then having read this article to the end, you will understand that this process is not difficult. Is it worth it to mess with all this, it's up to you. At the same time, you need to take into account the usefulness of yogurt cooked at home, and also compare its cost with prices at the grocery store. In the meantime, consider how to make yogurt in a yogurt maker.
First you need to go to a store or market to purchase quality raw materials. These are milk and living biocultures (bacteria).
The right choice of raw materials is already half the battle. Although it should be guided by their own taste preferences. For example, milk can be bought whole or skim. How to cook yogurt in a yogurt maker?
Based on 7 servings, you need to take 1.3 liters of milk and 180 g of yogurt with live bacteria (Rastishka, Aktimel, Imunele). To make yogurt tasty and healthy, you need to use only fresh and high-quality products for its preparation.
The preparation of yogurt in a yogurt maker is carried out in several stages. Let's consider each of them in more detail:
- First you need to pour 40 ml of milk into a small saucepan and heat it until it is about to boil. After that, remove the milk from the stove and let it cool completely.
- At this time, spread the yogurt containing live bacteria in a shallow plate. Subsequently, chilled milk will be added to it. All this is thoroughly mixed. But cooking yogurt in a yogurt maker does not end there. Pour the resulting mass to the remaining milk, knead well.
- Prepare 7 cups (210 ml each). We fill them with a yoghurt-milk mixture. Gently wipe all the drops, and then place the containers in an electric yogurt maker.
- Close the lid tightly and set the timer. If on this model it is absent, then just run the program you need. Cooking times may vary. It depends on the fat content of the milk that you bought in the store. For example, preparing yogurt in a yogurt maker using 2% milk takes 9 hours, and low-fat - 10. The main thing is not to touch the machine when it is working. In no case should you shake it, move it from place to place and open the lid ahead of time.
After 9-10 hours, you need to remove the cups, cool them to room temperature, and then put them in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
That’s probably all. When the homemade yogurt has cooled, you can get it and treat your household.
By the way, you can store glasses with yogurt in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
To make your yogurt not only tasty, but also fragrant, you can add jam, pieces of fruit and vanilla to it.