How to make homemade Yogurt?

The enormous health benefits of yogurt make it a perfect food for everyone. However, to make yogurt, you need a yogurt starter. The quality of yogurt depends on the quality, type, and yogurt starter culture. The starter culture or yogurt culture is responsible for the fermentation of lactic acid, which converts milk to curd.

Two types of yogurt culture can be used at home: fresh yogurt starter culture and dried yogurt starter culture. In this article, we will learn to make yogurt with freeze-dried culture. The fermentation of milk forms yogurt.

A freeze-dried culture consists of milk solids and bacteria. The culture looks like milk powder. Before you start working on it, you must read the package to know whether the freeze-dried culture is mesophilic or thermophilic. Knowing the type of dried culture before adding it to the milk is crucial.

If you find that the freeze-dried culture is thermophilic, you must use warm milk. You must add thermophilic culture to warm milk. Then you have to stir it properly. This is because the lactic acid bacteria present in the thermophilic freeze-dried culture show the best growth when mixed with warm milk.

If you find that the freeze-dried culture is mesophilic, you must use room-temperature milk or cold milk. After adding the mesophilic culture to cold or room-temperature milk, you must incubate the mixture at room temperature. This is because the lactic acid bacteria present in the mesophilic freeze-dried culture show the best growth at a lower temperature.

The steps to make yogurt with a freeze-dried culture:

Step 1 – Heat the milk (40°C), add the yogurt starter, stir the milk

Step 2 – pour the contents into the cups

Step 3 – start fermentation with a yogurt maker for about 8 hours

• First, mix the milk (warm or cold) with the freeze-dried starter culture.
• The bacteria should be appropriately incubated. There are various methods of incubation.
• Finally, refrigerate the yogurt and add additional flavors, if needed.

However, there are some disadvantages associated with making yogurt with freeze-dried culture. First, freeze-dried culture is not readily available. It can only be found in health food stores or online stores. Secondly, the incubation time is 8 hours.

The advantage of using freeze-dried culture is that you don’t have to worry about spoilage if you safely store it. Various strains of lactic acid bacteria are used in the starter culture, implying additional probiotic benefits.

Where to buy a freeze-dried yogurt starter?

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