Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, crockpot greek yogurt. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Crockpot Greek Yogurt is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Crockpot Greek Yogurt is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have crockpot greek yogurt using 15 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Greek Yogurt:
- Prepare 1 gallon milk
- Make ready 1 Single-serving 6 oz Yogurt cup (with live yogurt cultures)
- Get Cooking tools
- Take Big crockpot
- Prepare Whisk
- Prepare cup Measuring
- Take Paper towels or cheese cloth, or coffee filters
- Prepare Ladle
- Make ready Containers to put yogurt in
- Prepare Thick bath towel
- Take Timer
- Make ready whole, 1%, 2% or skim Pasteurized Milk, but do NOT use ultra-pasteurized because it won’t work.)
- Take Make less- just use a half gallon of milk and 1/2 cup yogurt with live culture
- Prepare When buying yogurt, make sure it has active live culture or this will not work. You can get plain or flavored. Keep in mind if you use flavored your whole batch will be that flavor!
- Get So the yellowish liquid that dripped out of the yoghurt was whey it’s proteine. (can be saved and used for making homemade bread)
Instructions to make Crockpot Greek Yogurt:
- Make your yogurt on a weekend day when you are home to monitor. (After the 3 hour mark, you can go to bed.) I like to start mine around 2 pm or 3pm
- Plug in your crock pot and turn to low. Add the gallon of milk. Cover and cook on low for 2 1/2 hours.(don’t remove lid) SET TIMER
- Unplug your crock pot. Leave the cover on, and let it sit for 3 hours.(don’t remove lid) SET TIMER
- When 3 hours have passed, scoop out 2 cups of the warmish milk and put it in a bowl. Whisk in 6oz yogurt cup of store-bought live/active culture,Then dump the bowl contents back into the crock pot. Whisk to combine.
- Put the lid back on your crock pot. Keep it unplugged, and wrap a heavy bath towel all the way around the crockpot for insulation.(Don’t remove towel or lid.)
- Go to bed or let it sit for 8 hours.- 12hrs (don’t remove lid or towel)
- In the morning, the yogurt will have thickened to the consistency of low-fat plain yogurt.
- Place Cheese cloth or paper towels, or coffee filters into a colander and ladle the yogurt into it, place the colander into a big bowl or in the sink.(I have pets and children, so I put a plate over top and a paper towels over the other smaller colander, I used 2 colanders and found that coffee filters was the best way.)
- Let it sit for 1 hr until thick and creamy. (the longer you let it set the better.) you have to check on it, because if the colander is setting in liquid it won’t drain, just dump it out.
- How to make it Greek yogurt- I put mine in the refrigerator and checking it every 2 hrs, on it making sure the liquid wasn’t touching the colander, if so just dump it out, can leave sit overnight for a thick Greek yogurt, that’s what I did.) keep in mind you want to use a lot of yogurt.
- Chill in a plastic container(s) in the refrigerator. Your fresh yogurt will last 7-10 days (this was the messy part, getting it all off the coffee filters)
- Flavor to fit your taste, you can also use this in place of sour cream.
- Notes- https://youtu.be/fqhP1u17Arw
- Notes- https://youtu.be/Ul5qoEc1X2A
- Iam not sure if I can put this on here. If you plan on making this on a regular basis to replace store yogurt, I recommend something like this, I seen this on YouTube.This would be so much easier and not going through so many coffee filters or cheese cloth. I think iam going to be getting one… mainly so it’s not so messy and I don’t lose that much yogurt. It’s not a maker it just drains the liquid off!
- My starter yogurt, next time think I will use a flavored kind.
Information on How to Elevate Your Mood with Food
A lot of us believe that comfort foods are bad for us and that we have to keep away from them. At times, if your comfort food is made of candy or other junk foods, this holds true. Otherwise, comfort foods may be very nourishing and good for you. Some foods honestly do improve your mood when you eat them. When you feel a little down and are needing an emotional pick-me-up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are great for helping you battle depression. You must make sure, however, that what you make includes the yolk. The egg yolk is the part of the egg that is the most important in terms of helping raise your mood. Eggs, particularly the egg yolks, are full of B vitamins. These B vitamins are fantastic for helping to boost your mood. This is because these vitamins help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that dictate your mood–function better. Eat some eggs to cheer up!
Put together a trail mixout of different seeds and nuts. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all great for raising your mood. This is possible since these foods are high in magnesium which boosts serotonin production. Serotonin is called the “feel good” substance that our body produces and it tells your brain how you should be feeling day in and day out. The more serotonin you have, the better you are going to feel. Not only that, nuts, in particular, are a great source of protein.
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So you see, you don’t need to eat junk food or foods that are bad for you just so to feel better! Test out these tips instead!
