Home-made vanilla yogurt

Name: Home-made vanilla yogurt
Yield: Makes 8 yogurts
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 tbsp skimmed-milk powder; 1 gelatine leaf; 2-3 tbsp sugar; 1 pot commercial yogurt (such as Danone Bio); pinch of vanilla powder (optional); 900 ml full-cream UHT milk; 80 ml evaporated (unsweetened) milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation info

Makes
8
yogurts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in the Tarn

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

About

Home-made yogurt is much superior to bought. This is our most popular, and luxurious, flavour. We can buy vanilla powder from the spice lady in Carmaux market - it is made from powdered pods and gives a pleasing speckled surface to the yogurts.

Ingredients

1 gelatine leaf
80 ml evaporated (unsweetened) milk
2 tbsp

Europe
France
Mediterranean
cheese
Microwave

Method

Soak the gelatine leaf in cold water while you assemble the other ingredients. Then squeeze out the leaf and put in a large measuring jug with the evaporated milk. Microwave for about 30 seconds, till the milk is hot and the gelatine has dissolved. Whisk well then stir in the skimmed-milk powder and about a quarter of the milk. Whisk again and stir in the yogurt, then the rest of the milk. At t