The Best Homemade Greek Yogurt With Only 2 Ingredients ( High Protein Yogurt ) | THE FOOD-DEE BASICS

Why buy greek yogurt in the store when the homemade greek yogurt is much tastier and did I mention it's also a lot cheaper than store-bought. All it takes is 2 ingredients and a bit of time and you can be making your own greek yogurt at home !!

The Best Homemade Greek Yogurt
Ingredients
1 liter or 4 cups Milk
75g or 1/4 cup Yogurt plain with active cultures

Directions:
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First, we are going to start by adding 1 liter or 4 cups of 3 % milk to a pot. you can use skim milk if you like to make it lower calorie. a place to pot on medium-high heat and we are going to bring this to 180F or 80 C. Make sure you stir to keep a skin from forming or burning the bottom of the pot. A thermometer is going to be important in this recipe I have linked you in the description if you need one.

Once you have reached 180f, let's go ahead and remove this from the heat.

we are going to let this cool until it reaches 115f or 46c
you can speed this up by placing the bowl on an ice bath and stir it until it reaches 115f

Once we have reached 115f we are going to take a bit of the milk and mix it with 1/4 cup or 75 grams of plain yogurt with live cultures this is important as we need those cultures to make the yogurt. mix it well until the yogurt is combined with the milk. then we are going to add the mixture back to the milk and mix it in.

let's cover the bowl with cling film and place it on a baking sheet.

Then grab the warmest towel you have and let's wrap our yogurt baby in it to keep it warm. we are trying to keep the temp at 115 f. We are going to take our yogurt baby and place it in the oven with the light on for 6-12 hours. the longer you leave it the thicker it will be.

pro tip if you have a good thermometer turn your oven on for a min or so just to get the temp of the oven to 115f. but be careful to high and it will stop the cultures from making the yogurt.

After you left it for 6-12 hours you will have regular yogurt. this is good as it but we are going to kick it up a notch and make thick Greek yogurt.

place a strainer over a bowl and add cheesecloth. or a towel you can even use a coffee filter here. Pour your yogurt into the strainer and over and place it into the fridge for a few hours or overnight. The longer you leave it the thicker it will be. and with the power of youtube magic here is your homemade greek yogurt. Now I left mine a little too long and it's thick as cream cheese! so I am going to add some of the weigh back and mix it up to get the thickness I like.

there we go perfect

let put this in a bowl and top with some fresh strawberries, granola, and some honey.

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[Blueskies]

Every Indian family will have homemade yogurt in their fridge 365/days a year….without skipping a beat. And if for some reason someone ate the last bit of yoghurt without keeping some for the next batch, you would ask a family member or relative or friend for a couple tablespoons of their yogurt culture so you can start the process again. We NEVER buy it from the store to start the process, because it has a different texture and flavour. If you know of an Indian family near you, ask them for a couple tablespoons of their homemade yogurt so you can start your yogurt making process. 😊

[LaVanaColebrooke]

Leaving it for 12 hrs this time. 8 was still too running for me. It’s now part of my recipe book ❤

[vkhqxiq]

Just tried your recipe and followed instructions and WOW! Great Greek yoghurt, smooth and creamy. Thank you!

[geetachaudhry]

For all the Indians,
The thing your mom makes is curd and all u have to do is just strain the water out and let it be for a lil time then u can keep in fridge and it would be nice and ready:)
You can eat it sour cuz homemade is usually a little bit sour or you could have it sweet by adding stuff

[marletteslife]

Omg, this is amazing! We drink/eat yogurt and kefir everyday (that means we always buy them). I'm gonna try making one at home. Thank you so much for this recipe. 👍😍

[marionpearson]

Make in a thermos flask with a wide neck. Stays warm with no wrapping up

[philipbarrett]

Best guide out there - one note though, a lot of modern oven's lights do not get warm enough to use for this process. A cheap solution is to place the wrapped bowl on a generic heating pad (mine came from CVS) set to low.

[CitizenKate]

The light in my oven doesn't work any more, so I needed to find some other way to keep my "yogurt baby" all snuggly and warm overnight while it ferments. I ended up using a little 2 qt crockpot I have. Did everything in the crockpot — heated it, cooled it, mixed in the starter, and after re-heating the crockpot heating element for just a few minutes, wrapped the whole crockpot (turned off) with a big bath towel and let it sit on the counter overnight. Next morning, I had yogurt, and it was perfect! The heating and cooling took a while, but I was going about other activities while that was happening. If I had known this was so easy I would have started making my own yogurt a long time ago!

[satishvennelakanti]

Seriously - ask any Indian family how they make dahi day after day I am sure none of them have thermometers . Just boil milk allow it to cook to Luke warm and add previous day yogurt as live culture and let it set for 6 hours . The longer you keep it will start becoming sour . You put it in a oven where temperatures are coolers not

[GlynisDance]

Thank you very much indeed! I followed your instructions, after being a little skeptical that I could easily make yoghurt, let alone Greek yoghurt. We just tried the first batch with blackberry pie tonight and the whole family thinks it's a great success. It is exactly the right texture and tastes yummy!

[mohammedaljofairi]

What you made before you added the whey liquid is Labneh, which is a middle eastern staple! It is really good to have, just add bit of salt and olive oil and will go great with olives and olive oil

[rondaborneman]

I never thought of trying to make this on my own! Awesome.

[LeLo-dgiy]

just found your video... I started my yogurt yesterday and the finished product was done this morning... easy... and delish.... I will be making my own from now on... THANK

[FadilasKitchen]

Thanks for sharing in the past I did it at home for my children 💖

[franzitaduz]

Using raw milk from the local dairy and the my heating setting in my cooler for 8 hours I did the strain step. Voila! Like stiff pudding. I’m hooked. Thank you much.

[roma]

South Asians have been making this for generations. A small tip if you add cardamom/almond/pistachio powder and a little sugar it tastes really yum ! Try it : )

[Invibcible]

Great video and great editing. Simple and clear instructions, good job!

[shaminirabeckal]

We Indian's do the same, that too in summer yogurt will play major part in everyone's meals. We take butter milk from yogurt, butter, paneer.

[UnitBeerMonsta]

Legend! Just made this and came out a lil runny but now sitting in fridge to harden up for greek yoghurt fingers crossed!!😊

[melaniemoultrie]

This looks so easy. I just picked up the ingredients, and now I am about to make it. Wish me luck!😂