Learn how to make yogurt from raw milk. It's easy! All you need is a steel pot, stovetop, glass jar with lid and a refrigerator! The only 2 ingredients are an organic yogurt starter (3 tbsp of plain yogurt) and a quart of raw milk.
1 steel pot * 18/0 Chromium/Nickel (Nickel Free Steel) is one of the healthiest types of cookware pots you can use.
1 Glass Jar *Quart Sized or bigger
1 Refrigerator *12 hours of refrigeration is part of the recipe.
Ingredients
3tbspPlain organic yogurtPreferably a new one. Not from the previous batch.
32fl oz.Raw milk
Instructions
Heat the raw milk. In a steel pot, pour in the 32 fl oz. of raw milk and put the fire on very low heat. You must constantly stir and watch for bubbles forming.
32 fl oz. Raw milk
Stop heating milk at the right time. There comes a bubbling-over point. Even on low heat, this bubbling-over point comes. If it doesn't, use a little more heat. Just keep stirring slowing and constantly until the milk starts to bubble up, move around, and rise to the top. Just don't let it overflow!
Let the milk cool down. Remove from the fire and let the milk cool down inside the pot.
Pour milk into glass jar. The milk in the pot should have a nice layer of pleasant fat that formed across the top of the pot. This is the good stuff. After about 10 minutes, feel if it's warm enough to drink. If you can leave your finger in it, and it's now warm and no longer hot, you can now pour it into the glass jar.
Mix the yogurt starter with milk. Take a mixing spoon and mix in your starter
3 tbsp Plain organic yogurt
Put it all together. Take the yogurt starter-warm milk mixture you just blended by hand with a spoon, and pour it into the glass jar you poured all the warmed raw milk into.
Let set on countertop. For 8 to 12 hours. Before refrigeration. Don't disturb it and keep it covered. Also keep the temperature constant and normal to whatever your room temperature is. The colder your room temperature, the closer to 12 hours you should be in the 8 to 12 hour time window of letting the raw milk yogurt mix sit on the countertop.
Place in the refrigerator. For around 12 hours. This is the final step. At 12 hours it will be ready. At 24 hours it always seems to be even better.Raw Milk Yogurt Recipe Complete.
Video
Notes
The yogurt lasts for at least 2 weeks in the fridge (it's lasted up to a month for us).
If you can see some slightly yellow liquid on the side, this is the whey that separated itself during heating. This is part of the yogurt and should be eaten. You should see some with raw yogurt.
Originally we let it set on the counter after mixing in the starter for only 4 hours. This was OK, but it came out a bit runny and crumbly.
In the future we plan to use a whisker instead of a spoon. It's pretty creamy as is, but the whisk may be key to a better appearance. Right now it looks half creamy half cottage cheesy in the pictures.
We'll post up updates to this one and future variations on the blog as we keep figuring out good ones.
Note from Ling.Hi everyone. My name is Ling. Today I want to make fresh yogurt from raw milk. Because this recipe is very easy, I think everyone can do it. Thank you everyone for watching this video. Enjoy :)
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