Recently however, someone told me that I could actually use the yogurt maker kit to make my own yogurt and not using their mix! I didn't really have to use the kit with its branded yogurt mix. I actually felt rather stupid for not thinking of it on my own. Maybe it was because I believed the small print in its brochure, which said that the kit was best suited with their yogurt mixes; that it was not recommended to use the kit for other purposes.
Anyway, I went back to the "original" recipe I started with years ago - add old yogurt (a small tub) to (almost 1 liter of) milk to make new yogurt. So I tried it. I got old yogurt, mixed it with heated then cooled milk. Then I placed it in the yogurt maker kit's inner jar and incubated it in the yogurt maker thermos.
Viola! I got the best of both worlds! And I've been continuously making yogurt with the previous batch's "old" yogurt! I'm on my 4th generation already! The farthest I got before was 6th generation... but the same someone also gave me a hint to "surpass" the weakening strain... but for that I need to experiment again...
Anyway, since hubby prefers a thicker yogurt, I strain my 1 liter overnight. I use the whey for hubby's smoothies, and the resulting Greek-style yogurt is perfect with fruits... healthy breakfast, right?
The only downside? Straining the yogurt to make Greek-style yogurt results in less than 2 cups of Greek-style yogurt!
For each serving, toss 100 to 200 grams strawberries with 1 teaspoon sugar; let stand several minutes (the berries will exude some liquid). Slice a banana into rounds. Arrange the fruit in a small bowl of Greek-style yogurt. Sweeten, to taste.
Fast, easy, and delicious!
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