How to Make Raspberry Greek Yogurt

My hubby and I are on a mission - we are determined to eat healthy and chemical free! We know we will not be able to totally eat organic but we are giving it all we got to stop filling ourselves up with chemicals.

We purchased us a Oster® Mykonos™ Greek Yogurt Maker.  We wanted to make our own yogurt with organic ingredients.   When we make our own greek yogurt we can make it how we like it, less cost, and we know what it is made of.  Sounds silly I know..but reading labels has gotten me to the point of wanting to make everything I eat from scratch. 

Did you know Greek Yogurt has more probiotics and almost double the amount of protein. I found a great article on  FitDay  - they list five reason to eat Greek Yogurt.

Heart Health
Bone Health
Weight Reduction
Muscle Accretion
Tasty Food Combinations

It is a very good article ~ FitDay offers great info about being healthy.

Here we go our first attempt at making our own Greek Yogurt 

9 Cups of Whole Organic Milk 
1 cup of plain organic yogurt 

Heat milk till boiling

Put one cup of yogurt in large bowl - gradually add warm milk mixture - whisking as you add milk to bowl

Fill jars with milk/yogurt mixture to the bottom of the screw rim. Place remaining mixture in the large container.  Turn on machine - turn timer to 8 hours. When the machine was done I placed the jars in the fridge ~ then turned the timer on 2 hours and let the large container cook another two hours.  

I then placed large container yogurt into a bowl.  

I washed the large container and the strainer - Then I returned the yogurt back to the container this time I placed the strainer on top and added the yogurt to the strainer. I placed the  strainer/container full of yogurt  in the fridge for 3 hours to separate the whey.


 
Check out the amount of whey drained from the yogurt.  Separating the whey is the difference between regular yogurt and greek yogurt.

I then chopped 1 pint of fresh Raspberries - added the drained yogurt and the chopped Raspberries to a large bowl.

I mixed the Raspberries and then I filled 4 jars with fresh Raspberry Yogurt.  I still have 6 jars of yogurt in the fridge. Now to drain the 6 jars and make some Blueberry Greek Yogurt.

9 Cups of Whole Organic Milk - $3.89 a 1/2 gallon 8 Cups ~ 50 cents a cup = $4.50 milk

1 cup of plain organic yogurt - $3.39 for 4 cups ~ 83 cents yogurt

$5.33 to make 10 jars of Organic Greek Yogurt with Organic Fruit! 

53 cents a serving!   Organic Greek Yogurt by us sells for almost $2.00 a serving!

1/4 the price!   NICE!!!!

Making Greek Yogurt does take time - the steps are NOT hard and do not take long to do - the machine does the hard work.  The taste is well worth the time and effort it takes to make my own yogurt.  Since Isa is Lactose intolerant my next batch is Raspberry Almond Milk Yogurt for her.

Make sure to taste your fruit before blending - you might need to add some honey to the fruit to make it sweet.  The raspberries were a little tart - next batch I will be adding some honey to the fruit to make the fruit sweet. Tart is good but I also like sweet.