greek yogurt in instant pot

CREATOR Cindazzle

How to Make Homemade Yogurt in Insta Pot

Ingredients

1 gallon whole milk is my choice/ use what you like

2 Tablespoons yogurt - plain

Steps

Sanitize your Instant Pot.

All you need to do for this step is pour a cup of water into your Instant Pot (I also add a few drops of Lemon or Purification essential oil because it helps to really clean it and get rid of any leftover ‘stink’ from making other recipes in your IP), close the lid and hit the ‘Steam’ button and then set it for 1 minute.

When it is done, being very careful, do a quick release on the lid and then dump out the water. Now your pot is sanitized!

Pour the entire gallon of milk into the Instant Pot, close the lid and then hit the ‘Yogurt’ button. Hit the ‘Adjust’ button until it said ‘boil’ and then leave it to beep and start on its own. It should take about an hour for the milk to boil.

The Instant Pot took 3 tries to get to 185 use a thermometer..stir during the boil stage to get it hotter quicker,, it eliminates hot spots,, When it is finished boiling, the Instant Pot will beep at you a few times and then display “yogt”.

stick around and be aware of the beep. Turn off the Instant Pot when you hear this beep!

Cool down the milk to be ready for the culture.

you do need to check the temperature ,,,But really it isn’t so hard! Remove the pot from the cooker and put on the counter to cool down to 115 degrees F. This will take about 1 to 2 hours for a gallon of milk. I kept stirring to cool it down.

A digital thermometer is great to have and you want to make sure it is sanitized and clean as well before inserting it into the milk. Once the milk reaches 110 to 115 degrees F you are ready to add your starter culture.

Add the starter

I Use my favorite yogurt as my starter. Just make sure if you use yogurt as your starter that you use a high quality yogurt with active cultures. Mix the 2 tablespoons of yogurt starter in well.

(I like to mix my starter yogurt with a cup of the cooled milk makes it easier to mix in)

Incubate the yogurt.

Now put the pot back inside the cooker, seal the lid, plug it back in, and press ‘Yogurt’. It will display “8:00” which means 8 hours. There is no need to adjust the time at all so just leave it and it will beep to let you know it has started the incubation process. NOTE: It will now switch to display “0:00” which means it is going to count UP until it reaches the total 8 hours. I only do mine for 6 ½ hours. I like mine milder.

Set/strain your yogurt.

Now you can pour the yogurt as is into jars and let them set overnight in the fridge. However, I highly recommend straining it a bit to make it thicker. Our family loves it super thick and I have so many uses for the whey, so I let it strain in in a tea towel , kitchen towel the ones smooth cotton, or a pillowcase, I use large wooden spoon, tie the spoon in the towel all 4 corners so it can hang by the spoon ..I hang mine in a pitcher over night in fridge makes about 2 quarts of yogurt!

Then I use a imursion blender and add back in whey or milk until it's whipped and as creamy as I love it...or you can eat it as it I prefer mine whipped...

Add flavor (optional).

If you want to add some flavor, this is the time to do it. Once the yogurt is strained stir in some vanilla, or jam and then load it into jars for fridge storage.

I like Carmel sauce!

I often will do one quart plain and then stir something into the other quart.

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