Ingredients
6-7 cups milk
1-2 tsp curd from previous batch as starter culture
Heavy bottomed pot to prepare curd
Note: You can also use plain greek yogurt or plain yogurt as a starter culture.
Preparation
- Refrigerate curd/yogurt from the previous batch, which will be used as starter culture, till needed.
- Slowly bring milk to a rolling boil in a heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.
- When milk comes to rolling boil, lower the heat to prevent overflow.
- Slowly increase the heat to medium. Keep stirring.
- The milk will stop to overflow. At this point, remove from the heat.
- After removing from the heat, you can see that milk has reduced in quantity.
- Keep it aside and let it cool.
- To test, insert your finger to check whether milk is little more warm to the touch.
- Take the starter curd/yogurt in a spoon. Drop it into the warm milk. And stir well.
- Cover the pot. Keep it in a warm place for 6-8 hours to ferment. I use my unused microwave as a warm place to ferment.
- After 6-8 hours, you have Thick Indian Curd/Yogurt.
Refrigerate for 5-6 days.
You can use this curd to make
- Raita
- Lassi
- Buttermilk
- Use it as a dip with chapati, rava uppittu (upma)
- Eaten with rice as Curd Rice with a spicy pickle on the side.
Detailed photo recipe is at http://www.pinterest.com/pin/452471093783437798/