Homemade is the best!
Anyone do this? I hate the price on greek yogurt, but love to use with some sugar free jelly. Seems simple enough just wonder about cost savings.
I make it every week! It doesn't take too much time and with milk at Costco costing about $2/gallon I can make about 6 cups of greek yogurt for around $1.50...way cheaper than the pre-made stuff.
The recipe I've been using recently:
12cups skim milk
Nonfat dry milk (about 1.3 cups..or enough dry mix that would make 1quart)
some store-bought plain yogurt with active cultures
1 - Heat skim milk to 180F...seems to work best in the microwave
2 - Let the milk cool down to 120F
3 - Put 1-2 Tablespoons of the purchased yogurt into a glass and add about 1c of the warm milk, stir
4 - Whisk the dry milk into the skim milk
5 - Add the yogurt/milk mixture to the skim milk/dry milk mixture
6 - Keep the mixture warm (110-115F) for 8-12 hours
7 - Eat as is or strain the yogurt to make it greek....the volume will reduce by about 50% (I strain it overnight)
The only problem I run into is that I don't know the exact macros/calories of the finished product so I've just been estimating. The whey that drains off from the straining is supposedly about 7/1 carb/protein per cup and about 30 calories.
By my estimate the finished product is nearly equal in carbs & protein vs the unstrained which has about 50% more carbs per serving.