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How To Make Homemade Yogurt (Plus Hot, Sauce, And Baking Recipes)

Yogurt has long conquered our hearts and stomachs. On the basis of yogurt, you can prepare snacks, soups, pastries, desserts. Pleasant texture, light sourness, versatility of use have elevated this sour-milk product to the top of the most popular and well-known.

We offer to make homemade yogurt, including Greek (it's very easy!), and cook great dishes with it: jelly, cake, chicken marinade, smoothies, fish sauce.

How to make homemade yogurt

We will not breed cultures of live bacteria at home, so we still need some ready-made natural yogurt. In general, yogurt needs milk.

Heat the milk in a saucepan to 42 degrees. If there is no thermometer, then drop warm milk with a spoon on the inside of the forearm, it should be hot, but tolerable.

Mix warm milk with natural yogurt in a ratio of 5 to 1, cover and leave for 10-12 hours in a warm place. It remains only to cool and you can enjoy homemade yogurt. By the way, part of the starter can immediately be set aside for a new portion of yogurt.

How to make Greek yogurt at home

Prepare homemade yogurt according to the recipe above, and then pour the prepared natural yogurt into a cheese and cottage cheese drainage bag. Hang over a bowl for 5-6 hours. One liter of natural yogurt usually yields 400 ml of Greek. It's simple, it just takes time.

Now let's move on to the yogurt.

Chicken in yogurt marinade

This marinade is also suitable for turkey.

chicken cut into pieces or 8 chicken legs 200 g natural yogurt 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil 3-4 garlic cloves 1 tsp. salt 100 ml hot sauce (sweet chili, adjika)

Marinate the chicken pieces in a mixture of yogurt, hot sauce, minced garlic, salt, and oil. Wrap with cling film and leave for 15 minutes to an hour.

Cover the heat-resistant form with parchment, lay out the chicken, pour over the sauce and bake in preheated to 190 degrees for 40 minutes. When the chicken is ready, the meat will come off the bone. Serve with cereals, vegetables, fresh salad.

Riata yoghurt sauce

Suitable for spicy savory dishes and fish.

150 g natural yogurt 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice 1-2 cloves of garlic salt to taste a couple of pinches of cumin

Pass the garlic through a press and mix with the rest of the ingredients. Refrigerate for 15 minutes before serving.

yogurt cake

450 g wheat flour a spoonful of salt 2 tsp. baking powder lemon 250 g sugar 300 ml natural yoghurt 150 ml refined vegetable oil 4 eggs a few tablespoons of candied fruits, if desired

In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, add salt and mix everything.

In another large bowl, whisk together the lemon zest and juice, sugar, yogurt, butter, and eggs. Add candied fruits.

Gradually introduce flour into the liquid mixture in small portions, casually mixing, the mass should only connect, so do not knead thoroughly.

Pour the resulting dough into a parchment-lined mold of any size. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 50 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer. Sprinkle the cooled cake with powdered sugar. Enjoy!

Smoothie with yogurt

3/4 cup natural yogurt 1/4 cup fruit juice (100 percent) 180-200 g frozen berries or fruit

Whisk yogurt with juice in a blender, add fruits or berries. Puree until smooth. Ready!

Yogurt jelly

250 g Greek yogurt 150 g heavy cream 100 ml fruit juice (grape, orange, etc.) 1 tbsp. l. powdered sugar 8 g gelatin

Pour juice into a saucepan, add gelatin and leave to swell for 15 minutes. Then heat until dissolved, stirring. Gelatin cannot be brewed, because it will acquire an unpleasant taste and smell. Pour into a bowl.

Whisk the cream, powdered sugar and yogurt in a separate bowl with a mixer. Then, a couple of tablespoons, add the resulting creamy mass to the juice with gelatin and stir with a spoon or spatula. So gradually introduce the entire mixture. Pour into bowls, leaving a place on top for jam or pureed berries, or maybe a layer of colored jelly. If desired, add the berries to the cooled liquid jelly. When the jelly hardens, add a couple of tablespoons of strawberries rubbed with sugar, broken raspberries or your favorite jam with a fork on top. Serve immediately.

We are interested in what you cook with yogurt! Tell us in the comments to this article.

Unsweetened Dough Snacks For The New Year's Table (quick And Easy!)

Recipes for quick and simple snacks will help out before the New Year, when worries are already up to the throat. We will prepare many of them from ready-made puff pastry, so if necessary, buy a couple of packs and throw them in the freezer; always helpful and helpful.

potato sticks

You can cook a budget and incredibly tasty dish from yesterday's mashed potatoes. And serve some sauces to the chopsticks.

You will need:

150 g flour; 250 g mashed potatoes (preferably with milk); 1 egg; 1 clove of garlic; 100 g sesame seeds (can be replaced or mixed with flax seeds or sunflower seeds).

The puree should be cooled down, beat the egg into it, add the flour and crush the garlic, mix thoroughly.

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees, cover the baking sheet with baking paper and lay the blank on it, giving it the shape of sticks, about 2 cm wide and 5 to 10 cm long. Sprinkle each stick with the selected seeds.

Such an appetizer is baked for about half an hour, a tender crust will indicate readiness. Potato sticks are universal, they are suitable for a gourmet dinner, and for gatherings with friends, or just for beer and your favorite TV show.

Filled puff pastry sticks

Ingredients:

100 g of hard unsalted cheese; 100 g of ham; 1 sheet of puff pastry; 50 g sesame; 1 egg.

Cut the dough into strips 2-3 cm wide, and cheese and ham into thin bars. Whisk the egg.

Fold a piece of cheese and a piece of ham and wrap a strip of puff pastry in a spiral. Put the resulting sticks on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.

You can replace the ham with smoked red fish, or leave only the cheese, it will still be delicious.

Layer cake with tuna

You will need:

2 canned tuna; 1 onion; 2 bell peppers; 1 egg; 2 sheets of puff pastry.

Chop the onion and fry in canned oil, after 3 minutes add the chopped pepper, stew a little on the fire and add the tuna. First, it should be folded into a strainer and slightly kneaded with a fork. Simmer together for about 5 minutes. Then turn off, transfer to a bowl so that the filling cools faster.

When it is only slightly warm, place it on a sheet of puff pastry, leaving a distance of 1.5-2 cm at the edges. Make longitudinal cuts on the second sheet and cover the filling with it, pinch the sides with a fork (a corrugated edge of the pie will appear during baking). You can cut the dough into squares and rectangles, then you get small puffs with tuna, which is convenient when there are a lot of guests.

Beat the egg and brush the top layer with the resulting mass, and sprinkle with sesame seeds on top. Bake the workpiece for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Cheese curd pie

Ingredients:

300 g of hard cheese; 300 g low-fat cottage cheese; 5 eggs; 3 tomatoes; 1 pack of puff pastry.

Hard boil eggs. Grate eggs and cheese, then mix with cottage cheese and salt.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment, lay out 1 sheet of puff pastry, make frequent pricks with a fork. Put the filling on top, leaving 3-4 cm at the edges. Wrap and pinch the edges. Cut the tomatoes into thin circles and put on top of the cheese mixture.

Bake the cake for 20-25 minutes, until the filling is browned.

Lavash cheese sticks

2 pita bread; 100 g of hard cheese; 1 egg; 1 clove of garlic; 100 g dill; breadcrumbs.

Cut the lavash folded in half into strips 10 cm wide. Whisk the egg. Grate the cheese and mix thoroughly with crushed garlic and chopped dill. Place 2-3 tablespoons of the filling evenly along the edge of the strip, roll into a tube so that the cheese mixture is wrapped twice with dough. Cut off the resulting sticks with a knife. Do this until the ingredients are used up. Then dip the tubes in a beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs, fry until golden brown in deep fat or in a pan with plenty of oil.

Fast pizza in a pan

Dish for student New Year. This type of snack is really simple, it requires a small set of products, and besides, it is very variable. You can combine, supplement or remove the filling depending on the contents of the refrigerator.

For the test you will need:

180 g flour; 2 eggs; 50 ml sour cream; a good pinch of salt.

The ingredients must be mixed and beat with a whisk or mixer until completely homogeneous. The consistency should resemble thick sour cream.

For the filling, we suggest taking:

80 g of hard cheese; 2 tomatoes; 1 bell pepper; 1 boiled chicken fillet; 50 g canned corn.

The filling can also include sausages, mushrooms, smoked fish, salami, capers and much more.

Vegetables should be cut into thin slices, meat should be larger, and cheese should be grated.

Pour 30 ml of vegetable oil into the pan. When it warms up, send the dough there and cover with a lid. Cook over medium heat. After 2-3 minutes, it will grab a little and you need to quickly place the filling on top in random order, the main thing is that the final layer is cheese. Cover the pan again and wait until the dough hardens and the cheese begins to melt. This means that the fast pizza is ready. 

Pies on kefir dough with ham, cheese and tomatoes

For pies you will need:

150 g flour; 100 ml of kefir; 1 egg; 30 ml of vegetable oil; 2 tomatoes; 100 g of hard cheese; 100 g of ham; 10 g of sugar; 5 g salt; 10 g baking powder.

Beat the eggs with a whisk with kefir, salt and sugar. Then add flour and baking powder, mix. You should get a thick, viscous, slightly sticky dough. Pour vegetable oil into it and knead for about 5 minutes. Then let stand for the same amount of time.

Remove skin from tomatoes. To do this, put the tomatoes in boiling water for 20 seconds, then select, the skin will easily come off. For the filling, ham, cheese and tomatoes should be cut into thin slices, approximately the same width and length.

Roll the dough in flour, divide into 2 parts and roll each into a thin cake (about 0.5-0.8 cm thick). Spread the ham on it, keeping a distance of 2 cm between the slices, on top of a circle of tomato and cheese. Cover the first with the second cake, cut the pies in a circle with a knife, leaving a centimeter on the edge. Pinch the edges of each pie with your fingers.

The resulting pies can be fried in vegetable oil (1.5-2 minutes on each side), or baked in the oven (10-15 minutes). If the second option is chosen, then they should first be greased with a beaten egg and sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Unsweetened Pastries With Cheese (crispy And Tender!)

Just imagine: crispy dough, viscous cheese, sour tomatoes, spicy olives... Making cheese pastries is quick and easy. Treat yourself and your guests to homemade treats. Delicious pastries with cheese in just half an hour!

Open fish pie

250 g flour 120 g butter 170 g natural yoghurt 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice 1 tsp. salt 150 g processed cheese 100 g mozzarella 150 g slightly salted salmon or canned tuna fresh or frozen dill egg yolk for brushing

Chop the cold butter with a knife with flour to crumbs. Mix 120 g of yogurt with salt and lemon juice. Add the resulting mixture to the butter with flour. Knead the dough, wrap with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.

Roll out the cooled dough into a layer, 0.6-0.7 cm thick. Put it in a heat-resistant form covered with parchment. Prick the dough with a fork. Bake for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees.

For the filling, mix shredded mozzarella and melted cheese with 50 g of yogurt and chopped dill. Put the cheese mixture and pieces of red fish on the baked dough.

Bake the cake for another 30 minutes at a temperature of 190-200 degrees.

Sausages with cheese in dough

450 g yeast-free puff pastry 6 sausages 6 slices of hard cheese egg 1 tsp. sesame seeds

Roll out the dough lightly and cut into large squares. Wrap the sausage with cheese, put on one side of the square and cover with the second. Pinch the edges tightly.

Put the blanks on a baking sheet covered with parchment, brush with a beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and put in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 20 minutes.

Puff pastry pie with cheese and tomatoes

500 g puff pastry (unleavened) 130 g curd cream cheese 3 tomatoes or 10 cherry tomatoes 1 tsp. herbs de Provence 50 g hard cheese Salt to taste

Place the puff pastry in an ovenproof dish lined with parchment paper. Prick with a fork and brush with cream cheese. 

Cut the tomatoes into circles (cut the cherry tomatoes in half lengthwise), put on the cheese. Sprinkle with herbes de Provence. 

Bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 185-190 degrees. Grate hard cheese, sprinkle over the pie and bake for another 5 minutes.

Feta cupcakes

250 g flour 90 ml refined vegetable oil 200 ml natural yoghurt 2 eggs 150 g feta 20 g pitted olives / half a bell pepper / handful of spinach 2 tsp. baking powder salt, black pepper to taste

In one bowl, mix dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, pepper). In another bowl, whisk together yogurt, butter and eggs. Then mix with dry mixture. Add diced cheese, halves of olives (cubes of bell pepper, spinach stewed with a spoonful of water in a saucepan). Mix and pour into greased moulds, filling 3/4 of the molds. 

Bake cupcakes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 30 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick.

Cottage cheese pie with cheese

250 g flour 200 g cottage cheese 100 g butter at room temperature egg 1 tbsp. l. sour cream 250 g hard cheese salt to taste 1/2 tsp. baking powder yolk for brushing

In a bowl, mix flour, cottage cheese, cubes of softened butter, salt, baking powder. Beat in one egg. Knead the dough, it should not stick to your hands. Roll into a ball and refrigerate for 15 minutes.

For the filling, grate the cheese and mix with sour cream.

Divide the dough into two parts, one slightly larger. Roll out two layers according to the size of the form. Cover the form with parchment, lay out one layer of dough, forming the sides. Divide the filling and cover with the other half of the dough. Pinch the edges. Pierce with a fork to release steam, then brush the top with beaten egg yolk. If desired, sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Bake the cake for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees.

Bon appetit!