How to make yogurt at home

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Buttermilk or buttermilk (the name for curdled milk in America) Yogurt is a versatile kitchen ingredient used in everything from salad dressing to homemade bread and fried chicken. Making your own homemade yogurt is as simple as mixing the two ingredients and then letting the bacteria do their thing. You'll need a small amount of store-bought yogurt, milk, and a glass container.

Time: 24 hours.
Complexity: easily

Follow this step-by-step photo recipe and you can make yogurt at home.

The recipes use measuring containers with the following volumes:
1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

1/2 cup store-bought sour milk or kefir
1 liter of boiled whole milk or 1%

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Cooking the dish according to the recipe:

Pour about 1/2 cup of store-bought sour milk into a glass container. Make sure the container is large enough to accommodate the required amount of milk.

Pour in 1 liter of boiled milk. Whole milk is ideal, but 1% milk is also excellent. Stir until the milk and sour milk are completely combined.

Cover the container with a lid and leave it on the counter at room temperature.

After 12-24 hours, the mixture will thicken. The longer you leave the mixture on the counter, the thicker the curdled milk will be. Depending on the temperature in your kitchen, it may take longer. Once the curdled milk has reached the desired consistency and flavor, refrigerate it and store for up to a month.

Use homemade yogurt, just like store-bought, for example, make Homemade ranch dressing with sour milkWhen you have about half a cup of sour milk left, you can repeat this process, mixing your sour milk with fresh milk.