We love yogurt in smoothies and with blueberries and granola but yogurt goes bad quickly and is expensive and hard to source while sailing. We are excited about this recipe!!!`Ingredients:
- Dry milk powder – do not use non fat milk powder! There must be some fat in the dry milk powder to convert into yogurt. Whole milk will make creamier, greek style yogurt.
- Water
- 2 Tablespoons of plain yogurt – you need yogurt cultures to make yogurt.
- Optional – 1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
- Following the directions on the dry milk powder package, mix the water and powdered milk together in the blender to make your preferred amount of reconstituted milk. It is hard to get milk powder to thoroughly dissolve in water without the help of an electric blender. I suggest using the blender to mix the milk and allow it to sit a bit to let the undissolved powder settle, and then blend it a second time to ensure everything dissolves as it should.
- Pour the milk into the Instant Pot and put on the lid. Press the YOGURT button. Then press the ADJUST button until the word boil appears in the display window. The Instant Pot will heat the milk to boiling and beep when it is ready. This won’t take very long.
- Take a reading of the warm milk with your thermometer. The milk should be between 179 and 182 degrees (F ).
- Use the thermometer to take the temperature of the milk and wait until the milk has cooled to 110 and 115 degrees (F ).
- Put approximately 1/2 a cup of warm milk into a separate small dish and stir with a spoon to dissolve 2 tablespoons of yogurt into it. This makes the culture for our yogurt.
- Pour the liquid yogurt culture into the warm milk and stir it gently with a spoon being careful not to scrap the jelled milk from the bottom of the pot. You won’t ruin the yogurt if you accidentally scrape the bottom of the pot but it may make your finished yogurt less smooth.
- Put the lid on the Instant Pot. Press the YOGURT button. Then press the ADJUST button until 8:00 appears in the display window to tell you the Instant Pot will incubate the milk mixture for 8 hours. You can use the plus and minus buttons to change the incubation time to up to 10 hours if you like your yogurt a little more tangy/sour. At this point I just go on with my day until the Instant Pot beeps to tell me the incubation cycle is done. You can also let the IP do its thing over night and wake up to freshly made yogurt.
- If you like French style yogurt: Thoroughly mix the yogurt and whey (it looks like water) together with a spoon and pour it into a separate container with a lid.
- If you like Greek style yogurt: Strain the whey from the yogurt using a nut milk straining bag in a round colander with a bowl underneath to catch the whey until the yogurt is the consistency you like and pour it into a separate container with a lid. Don’t worry if you strain too much whey and make your yogurt too thick. You can always mix a little bit of liquid whey back into the yogurt until it is your desired consistency.
- Put the finished yogurt in the refrigerator to chill before eating.