Greek Yogurt: 1% + vanilla bean

Good news: This homemade Greek Yogurt recipe works JUST AS WELL with 1% milk! Yippee!


This time I also added a vanilla bean to the milk while it heated. That is why you see black specs in this pictures. It has a very vanilla flavor.

This is after 16 hours of incubation in the oven.

You can see the whey pooling, as it hasn't yet been strained.

This scoop shows how thick the yogurt is before straining - holds its shape in a spoon.
Second scoop

This is 1 gallon of yogurt, just placed in the strainer.

This time I strained it for 6 hours and it seemed to be the same thickness as the 2% after 8 hours.

The yield from 1 gallon of 1% milk was 11 cups of yogurt and 5 cups of whey.

11 cups is 14 - 15 servings.

1 gallon of 1% milk was $2.69.