3 Ingredient Instant Pot 'No Boil' Yogurt - Cold Start Dump and Go Yogurt Recipe

I'm showing you have to make Cold Start or No Boil Yogurt. The best part is... you only need 3 ingredients to make it!

I love easy recipes so that is why I decided to show you how to make this yogurt. You just dump everything in (a cold start) and push the yogurt button and you are good to go!

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Just remember when using the Instant Pot, it takes 10-20 minutes to pressurize!

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If you are cooking for 1-2 people I would suggest the 3 Quart. If you are cooking for more, I would suggest the 6 quart!

COLD START OR NO BOIL YOGURT
The traditional way of making yogurt requires you to heat your milk to a temperature  of 160 - 180 degrees and then to cool it before adding your yogurt starter.  This "scalding" of the milk kills bacteria in the milk before making yogurt.

This step is not necessary with the cold start method, because we use a ultra pasteurized, ultra high temp, or shelf stable milk such as Fairlife milk.  These milks have already been heated to a very high temperature before being packaged and sold.

WHAT IS A YOGURT STARTER?
To make yogurt, you need to add live yogurt cultures! This is easier than it sounds.

For our yogurt starter, we use 1-2 Tablespoons of a plain yogurt with live cultures. Check the ingredient list to see if it has live/active cultures-- this is a must!

The brand doesn't matter, but we recommend one low in sugar and additional ingredients.

WHAT KIND OF INSTANT POT DO I NEED?
You will need an Instant Pot with the "Yogurt" button.  As long as you have that, you can do this in a 3 quart, 6 quart, or 8 quart Instant Pot.

You can double this recipe, using up to one gallon of milk, in the 6 quart or 8 quart.   We started with a small batch while we figured it out, but it's been a large batch ever since because we like it so much.

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[rebeccacorriveau]

I have been making this for months for my friends daughter that has stage 4 cancer. It’s one of the very few things she can eat due to the nausea, and mouth sores that chemo causes. Now she only wants my yogurt 😁

[vfpwomw]

Okay I made your three ingredient yogurt tonight for the first time. I want to preface this by telling you that I never liked plain yogurt because to me it smells like stinky feet. LOL when I put it together, all I could smell was that stinky feet smell from the plain yogurt. The eight hours just finished and I tasted it and it is OMG fantastic! It's in the fridge and I'm so looking forward to eating it for breakfast tomorrow with some fruit and almonds. Thank you so much for this recipe! Oh, I wanted to tell you that I bought the wrong milk. I bought Fairlife but I bought the one that was no fat and ultra pasteurized. I wasn't sure if it would work but I decided to try it anyway. It worked perfectly! It's creamy and the Spoon stood up when I placed it in the yogurt. This is so much cheaper than buying all those individual containers of yogurt and making all that plastic waste! Thank you so much for making this video!

[marciahowell]

Just wanted to share how much I love your yogurt recipe. I don’t sweeten mine because I use it for lots of things. This week my 4yr old-great granddaughter wanted to help so I measured and she dumped and whisked and even pushed the yogurt was so excited. As always it turned out great! Thank you so very much for your easy to do and follow recipes.

[alicebeede]

Love, love, love this yogurt. I was skeptical as to how it would turn out, but it was delicious! The only change I made was to add a tablespoon of vanilla because that’s my favorite. I had friends taste test the yogurt and everyone agreed it is the better than store bought. This recipe is a keeper! ❤️

[marlenefreeman]

Just made this with sweetened condensed coconut milk. A little more liquidy so I strained it and it got greek yogurt thick. Has nutty coconut flavor but very good!

[jeannekeith]

I have been making my yogurt with this cold start way every week for many months. My store never has the Fairlife whole milk so I use the organic whole milk from Walmart and add the sweetened condensed milk and yogurt starter stirred well then do the yogurt setting on the instant pot. I do strain it into the yogurt strainer because I love Greek style and it is fabulous. If you use a good Organic milk there is no need to boil the milk. The Cold Start method always works.

[kimee]

Making my own yogurt was happiness! The only other food I've made in the IP, was oxtails & recently I've made oatmeal in it. This is the recipe for LIFE!! I've tried the boil method & ended up with, not yogurt it was Kefir 😒😂😂 I'll use maybe half of the condensed milk & add some vanilla extra. Soooo good!! Two weeks ago, I used vanilla bean pods. I loved seeing the lil specs of the vanilla bean in the yogurt. I've used a blueberry, mixed berry, strawberry & peach yogurt, as the starter & while it changes the color slightly, it's still soooo good! I usually go for 8:30, just a lil extra tang, extra razzle dazzle😊 The no boil method....game changer!

[kariowens]

I think this tastes like Greek yogurt already ! I’ve made it once and I’m hooked never going back 😂

[tizmehere]

I see this is an older video but I am so happy to have found yogurt done by you as you got me into using my IP with confidence from my IP beginning and your methods are straight forward and I trust you. Thanks for keeping even your older material online.

[jaydyn]

I had been on the fence about owning an instapot until my Hubby surprised me with one last week. I made this and figured it would make or break me on the instapot 😂 I was blown away at how easy this recipe is. So delicious and creamy! Thank You for the great tutorial... will be making this regularly.

[robertbarker]

I made this yogurt primarily for myself because I was looking for new recipes during at home. Everyone in the house absolutely loved it.

[OneLiterPeter]

I used this recipe and made yogurt the other night and it turned out amazing! Thank you for the recipe. One thing though... The video confused me a bit regarding the lid and you mentioned that you can use the lid or put a plate on top and I was thinking... I want to use the lid, so does it need to be on venting or sealing? So I went to you site, found the recipe and unlike the video it said to put the lid on sealing. I did and it worked. Maybe it doesn't matter, I don't know but... if you're on the fence regarding sealing or venting... Sealing worked for me. :)

[roseshoop]

I have been making my yogurt this way for almost a year. I whisk my 2T of yogurt w/ live cultures and a little milk in a small bowl before adding to the milk and sweetened condensed milk mixture.I also find placing a paper towel between the lid and the pot during the process also helps with condensation. We love it! Tfs! 🤗

[admiralking]

I made this last night and it is absolutely delicious! I had to shame myself to not eat anymore after the third trip to the refrigerator. Big hit with the nine year old as well.

[JenLester]

This is literally a game changer! I can't begin to tell you how how much I love this yogurt (& so does my family!) I leave the SCM out and we sweeten ours with local honey and top with fresh or frozen fruit! AMAZING!

[mandigummels]

I just made this and it is delicious! I love that it's sweet enough but not too sweet. The taste reminds me of the yogurt in Chick-fil-A's parfaits. It's really good and creamy! I had to set mine for 11 hours and it turned out fantastic.

[DeofolLock]

Ok, just watched this yesterday and showed the wife. We made it before bed and woke up to amazing yogurt! I was like "It actually worked?!". Kids loved it too for breakfast not even chilled!

[patchesful]

Ok. I don't know if your the greatest woman or the meanest woman on the planet, but I just made this. ...AND I LOVE IT! I can eat this by the gallon. Oh, and by the way, I've NEVER liked or cared about yogurt before. Ty. P.S. Added a squirt of Welches Grape Jelly and passed out.

[GrammerAngel]

It is much easier to put the Sweetened condensed milk in the pot first, then wisk in the yogurt, and finally two glugs of the milk, wisk, then add the rest of the milk. Mixes together much easier.

[brittly]

I just pulled this out of my instant pot and it is so good! I was worried it would be too sweet or not turn out and it is perfect! Thank you! I’m so grateful I don’t have to boil it anymore.