Labneh balls

Labneh balls are a delicious on crackers as a snack or perfect on toast with eggs for breakfast.

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Ingredients (makes 30 Labneh balls)

1 kg Natural yoghurt
1 tsp Salt
Flavourings of your choice: Chilli, peppercorns, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary, paprika.

Method

Mix together the yoghurt and salt. Add to a nut milk bag or a clean Muslin cloth.
Put it on a strainer over a bowl to catch the whey liquid. Leave for 24-48 hours.
Roll the strained yoghurt into small balls and place into sterilised jars half filled with olive oil. Once you've put in your yoghurt balls you can top up with olive oil and add other flavourings to your taste. Examples are: Chilli, peppercorns, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary or paprika.

Notes

You can use the whey in your morning smoothie.

32 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 14 May 2022
    9:29 am
Sounds like something I would love to try.

- - mom268263 said
  - 24 Oct 2020
    9:32 pm
Labneh is so delicious, so great to have a recipe to make this at home.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    8:45 pm
Simple but once made so good and delicous thanks

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 30 Nov 2017
    11:26 am
Awesome I love this recipe

- - youngoldlady said
  - 21 Aug 2017
    1:30 am
We have these with different herbs and are so loving them.

- - ella12 said
  - 12 Apr 2017
    11:06 am
This looks rather nice, thank you.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 07 Sep 2016
    1:18 pm
seriously cool post – herbs, yum, yoghurt, yum…. How long does it keep?

- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    10:48 pm
Ive never tried this before, looks nice

- - taynik46 said
  - 14 Jul 2016
    8:45 am
cool, what a great idea to try – thanks for sharing these with us

- - youngoldlady said
  - 09 May 2016
    7:29 pm
Have always wondered how these were made and now I can make my own at home. Thank you.

- - Nas01 said
  - 01 May 2016
    8:22 pm
Yum, these look so good!! I love labneh.

- - mom94378 said
  - 18 Nov 2015
    10:46 pm
These are interesting!!!

- - kjgarner said
  - 18 Oct 2015
    12:35 pm
yoghurt balls… this is quite interesting

- - mom109229 said
  - 26 Sep 2015
    8:25 pm
This looks really interesting! I might just give it a go!

- - mom103920 said
  - 17 Sep 2015
    10:14 am
These are interesting. How long do they keep?
- mom165081 replied
  
  19 Jan 2016 , 12:34 am
  I would love to know this too – how long and where (refrigerated?) you keep them.
- - coastalkaryn said
  - 12 Sep 2015
    5:22 pm
oh yeah – this is awesome, thanks for sharing

- - mom81879 said
  - 11 Sep 2015
    7:01 pm
Oooohhhhh, sounds interesting. Basically making your own cheese…..and marinating it in flavours. Mmmmm

- - dixigirl said
  - 11 Sep 2015
    9:56 am
This looks very inviting Thankyou

- - mom82590 said
  - 05 Sep 2015
    10:42 am
This looks so delicious. Thank you for sharing

- - mom152736 said
  - 03 Sep 2015
    1:12 pm
My !!! just that simple…?? wowwww ….