by Amanda Bennett

Created on: April 08, 2010

Making Soy Yogurt is not something I ever thought I'd attempt to make from scratch at home but believe it or not, it is so much easier than it sounds, with the right recipe & ingredients!

 
Here are the ingredients and tools you need to whip up your own yogurt

Home Made Soygurt !
*Ingredients*

1/2 cup Soy Yogurt with live Cultures
4 cups plain OR vanilla soy milk- warmed

A very clean Whisk- being clean is important when dealing with cultures!
An Oven
A Jar or Container with a lid
It’s really important to make sure your base yogurt has cultures because what you are going to do is let those cultures multiply and form a larger batch of yogurt. 
Once you have made your own homemade yogurt, you can keep making more with that last 1/2 cup.

*Directions*

#1: Set Oven to 100 Degrees while getting out your ingredients
# 2: If base yogurt is runny, drain out the excess liquid by using a Cheese Cloth
# 3: If your soy milk is cold, pop it in the microwave to warm it just enough, you don’t want it too hot!  I warmed my 4 cups of soymilk in the microwave for about 2 minutes.
# 4: Whisk together the warm soy milk and base yogurt until the yogurt has incorporated itself into the milk. 
This shouldn’t take more than a minute of whisking. I would recommend washing your whisk in warm water and soap before hand just to get rid of bacteria.
# 5: Place a lid on your container (or jar) and place it in your preheated oven.  This is where it gets really simple, all you have to do is walk away now!  Let the yogurt sit in the oven for at least 8 hours.  Don’t turn off the oven, you want to keep it at 100 degrees for the whole night.  I usually put it in over night so when I wake up in the morning, I can transfer it.
#6: Transfer Yogurt into another container, with a lid!

Living with food alergies can be very tough, I have had to read food labels since I was a kid because my mother is VERY alergic to Eggs, and eggs are in so many unexpected products. The best way to know what's in your food, is for you to make it at home, from scratch! Plus it always tastes better!

A special Thanks to Vegans Eat for this recipe! For many other great Vegan Recipes, Please visit Vegans Eat !

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