Munchie Monday: Instant Pot Cold Start Yogurt!

Many months ago I was making soy milk yogurt in the Instant Pot.  I did not like it, even though it worked very well.  This time I used dairy milk.  It was really so good!

To make Instant Pot Cold-Start Yogurt

Ultra-Filtered Whole Milk
Plain Greek Yogurt
Clean pint canning jars with lids
Instant Pot (I used an 8-quart Instant Pot but a 6-quart Instant Pot would likely work)

What I did:

In a large scrupulously clean glass bowl pour one bottle (just under 2-quart size) Fairlife milk.  Add 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt and whisk until completely dissolved in the milk.

Pour the mixed milk and yogurt into the pint jars and put on the covers but don't tighten. After spilling a lot into the first jar I moved the jars to the sink and cleaned up the counter and floor.  For some reason, maybe since I was pouring from a height, there was no more spilling.

Place the filledand covered  jars in the inner stainless steel liner of the Instant Pot.

Set the Yogurt button to Medium temperature and the timer to 8 hours.  Put on the lid.

Now just  go about your other business and wait for 8 hours.  It was closer to 9 hours before I got back to the Instant Pot and removed the jars to chill in the refrigerator overnight.

That is it.  Now it is ready to use.

This yogurt came out perfectly and so beautifully thick.

This morning we sliced up some cleaned fresh strawberries, poured on some sugar (TOO MUCH as it turned out...as the strawberry yogurt was so very sweet I could barely eat it.  Dear One loved it!) and sprinkled in a lot of cinnamon and stirred well.

This does not really look that yummy but Dear One was so pleased with it.  The texture really was lovely, just too sweet.  We used one pint of yogurt, two cups sliced strawberries and 1/3 cup sugar...just to let you know how much sugar is way too much.