How to make of homemade yogurt

It isn't at all hard to make yogurt at home, we only count with the necessary ingredients and the desire to eat more natural and fresh. In addition, this option is more than interesting if you are a lover of the ecology and recycling.

The process of fermentation of yogurt

For this homemade yogurt recipe, we will need the following ingredients and materials:

* Milk (quantity necessary according to how much yogurt you want to)

*yogurt 100% natural sugar (1 tablespoon for each half litre of milk)

* glass jars that we have at home, clean and dry

* a spoon

* insulation to retain heat (cardboard, newspaper, blanket, Cork, Thermo paper)

* a thermometer that can reach 90 ° (are available in stores that sell materials for laboratories).

Preparation of step by step homemade yogurt

The first thing is to place a spoonful of yogurt in each jar. Then you must place simmering milk until it reaches 85 ° C and stir so it does not stick to the bottom. This will take you about ten minutes. If you don't have a thermometer, however, you must turn off the heat when the liquid smokes and goes up a little.

Removes the milk to bring down your temperature up to about 45 ° C, it can take half an hour, according to weather and ambient heat. To know when it is, placing the little finger: if it burns a little but you can hold it, already.

Pour milk in bottles and try to fill them up above. Removes vigorously with a spoon so that mixing with yogurt. Cover well and keep them in a place where heat is retained. Thus they remain six hours, in the warmest area of the home.