No fuss homemade yoghurt - Real Recipes from Mums

If you’ve not yet ventured into the cultured world of DIY yoghurt you’re missing out. It’s not as hard as you think and you don’t need to bother with heating the milk up just use UHT milk as it’s already been heated to the right temperature.

When I was in Germany recently, I took myself off to the supermarket for a bit of ‘Euro supermarket food porn’ – one of my favourite things to do overseas is check out the local supermarket. Let me tell you, the aisles of Germany did not disappoint. There were cheeses, oh so many cheeses, nice tea, fresh berries, weird meats, breads and yoghurt in jars – in jars. I don’t know why we don’t have yoghurt in jars here, it looks way better and is probably better for you. So I just made some in my own jar (clevers I know). I used a Aldi brand mayo jar for a touch of the Deutschland, and it looks great.

Ingredients (serves 1 | makes 500ml of plain yoghurt)

1 tablespoon Plain yoghurt
2 tablespoons Full cream milk powder
500ml UHT full cream milk

Method

Take a tablespoon of yoghurt from a tub of plain store bought yoghurt (once you have made it you can just use a spoonful from your own homemade yoghurt).
Add to the jar with two tablespoons of powdered milk (makes it lovely and creamy) and add UHT milk to the top.
Stir or shake and then sit in an esky or yoghurt maker (filled with 1/3 boiling water) for six to eight hours (if you make it before bed it's ready when you get up - although best if it's chilled for half an hour before you tuck in).

52 Comments

- - BellaB said
  - 04 Sep 2024
    6:41 pm
My attempts at homemade yoghurt always taste a bit chalky.

- - mom488690 said
  - 29 Apr 2024
    9:25 am
Always making home made yoghurt so simple and cheaper than store bought

- - GemmaLaurenMary said
  - 09 Jan 2023
    10:59 pm
I feel like this would work out alot cheaper then buying bulk yogurt

- - cassy26 said
  - 01 Jun 2022
    9:28 am
This looks super simple. I might give it a go. I love yoghurt…

- - mom112217 said
  - 09 Feb 2021
    9:21 pm
Thanks such an easy recipe to make!

- - mom460689 said
  - 26 Oct 2020
    2:48 pm
I definitely want to try this. It doesn’t look too hard.

- - mom466735 said
  - 16 Jun 2020
    9:53 am
I’ve trued to make the yoghurt and it didn’t work ????. I added mire milk powder and left it for another night but it’s still judt milk. What did I do wrong? Is some yoghurt better than other to start it? I used full fat greek yoghurt. Tia

- - mom462038 said
  - 10 Apr 2020
    4:48 pm
The saying is “if it seems too good to be true, it usually is” This seems way too easy, I’m going to have to give it a go just to see how it turns out

- - mom327228 said
  - 19 Nov 2019
    12:36 pm
Good idea

- - teegsmrstee said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    12:56 pm
I have never tried home made yoghurt, will need to

- - kjgarner said
  - 30 Nov 2018
    10:47 am
Definitely no fuss from here

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 29 Nov 2018
    6:41 pm
Oh wow this is great thanks

- - Ellen said
  - 07 Jan 2018
    3:47 am
This is how we made our yoghurts in Africa

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 03 Dec 2017
    12:38 pm
I like that ypu have made your own version of homemade yogurt never tried it this way before

- - mom266216 said
  - 22 Oct 2017
    11:05 am
wonderful !!! will try to make this yogurt at home. So easy

- - mom62624 said
  - 20 Oct 2017
    5:16 pm
Fantastic, thanks.

- - mom81879 said
  - 20 Oct 2017
    10:17 am
Such a simple home made yoghurt, no bells and whistles

- - mom249812 said
  - 13 Jun 2017
    7:13 am
I love homemade yoghurt, thanks

- - Mum To Two said
  - 12 Mar 2017
    11:32 am
So easy! How long does the yoghurt last?

- - youngoldlady said
  - 08 Mar 2017
    7:44 pm
This seems a lot cheaper then buying the yoghurt mixes that make yoghurt up. Like as I know what is in the yoghurt and we buy lots of UHT or longer life milk anyway.