Plain Yogurt (InstantPot)

Have you noticed there is a 'yogurt' button on an Instant Pot?  It's super easy to make your own plain yogurt and all you need is two ingredients.  Good bye little sweetie plastic containers of yogurt.  There are so many uses for plain yogurt, but I just like mixing yogurt with berries and adding some granola on the top for breakfast.

Ingredients:

1/2 gallon whole milk

1/4 cup plain yogurt with live active cultures

Pour milk into the Instant Pot and press the 'Yogurt' button until it says 'boil.'  Put the lid on.  (It doesn't have to be in pressure mode.)  Wait until the milk comes to a boil.  The Instant Pot will beep when it is done.  It takes about 25-30 minutes.  The milk will heat to about 180 degrees F, not to actual boiling temperature.

Remove the container from the Instant Pot and cool the milk to between 110 and 120 degrees F.  To speed this up, I put the container in a sink of ice water and keep stirring and check the temperature frequently with an instant read thermometer.  It only takes about 5 minutes to cool the milk using an ice bath.

Put 1/2 cup plain yogurt into a small mixing bowl and add one cup of the cooled milk to the bowl.  Whisk it until it is smooth, then add this mixture to the container with the rest of the milk and stir.  Put the container back into the Instant Pot, replace the lid, and press the 'Yogurt' button until the digital readout says '10:00.'  The Instant Pot will warm the mixture for the next 10 hours.

When the Instant Pot beeps, indicating that it is done, using a rubber scraper, scrape the yogurt into a container to refrigerate.  Stir the yogurt until it is smooth and refrigerate.  That's it!