Hi and welcome to Steve's kitchen by the end of this recipe you're going to learn
how to make a delicious and thick super thick coconut yogurt and its rich and
full of probiotics. Now we've been doing a few good stomach recipes over the last
week we got that lovely sauerkraut, the german sauerkraut, the fermented cabbage,
which was really delicious and then we did the buttermilk as well last weekend.
Today we're taking it up a notch, something super delicious, strap yourself
in and learn with me how to make a delicious coconut yogurt. You'll see I've
got a variety of coconut milks and creams here and I've experimented with
them all so you don't have to. Now you'd have thought that a thick coconut cream
would work better than a coconut milk but I can tell you from my experimenting
the milk makes a nicer yogurt. It's just the right sort of texture, they both work
by the way. Now I've gone for a pure coconut milk by the way there's nothing
else in here, many of them do have emulsifiers and different additives in
it, doesn't matter they do all work. This particular brand that I found is perfect,
they are little Diddy tins but they're just the perfect size for me. Now whether
it comes in a can or a carton first thing you want to do. Let's give this a
good shake up, break up the fats, any solids that are in the top of the can
and then everything after this is pretty simple. Crack open the lid, pull that top
off and you'll see with the shake-up there are no solids on the top. Now we
take this coconut milk, now I've put the coconut milk into a glass jar just so
that you can see what I'm doing but a little tip here you could just do it
straight in the can it makes no difference. Now many of you will know the
cultures we use to make a dairy yogurt they grow naturally in milk but we don't
want to introduce these if we're going to go dairy free, so I've got some
probiotics, these are little capsules you can get in most chemists or supermarkets.
They're very simple, so simple little capsules, as you would find in any tablet
form. Take your little capsule give it a squeeze, a little twist and all those
little probiotics will come out. Just pour it on top of the coconut milk and
then just take a teaspoon and give this a good stir through. Now
these are the natural healthy probiotics that you find in the stomach and when
you put them into your coconut yogurt like this at room temperature they are
actually going to bloom. They're going to multiply, it's going to take a couple of
days for them to make a very thick yogurt. Now initially I'm going to leave
this for 24 hours, a little bit of muslin or cheesecloth over the top, just to keep
the dust out. In 24 hours time you're going to uncover your coconut yogurt and
what you're going to notice is there's often a little bit of coconut water at
the bottom and it will have started to thicken slightly. Not as thick as a
normal yogurt, although we're starting to get there, you can see but on the first
day what I like to do is just give this a stir through. Just to bring the coconut
water back into the milk. Cover it over and we're going to leave this at room
temperature for another day and by then it's going to be a lovely thick yogurt, a
little bit like a Greek yogurt. Now different temperatures around the house
will mean that this will take slightly varied times to actually finish but
don't worry it could be within one day or two days, it's certainly going to set.
Now by the second day, you just look how beautiful and thick this yogurt has set
and you can eat it just like this, I'll give it a try. My that is so delicious.
Now if you set that in the fridge for a little while it will set super firm like
a really dense Greek yogurt and I would serve this with some fresh fruits or as
I'm going to do now, I've got this wonderful homemade lemon curd, which is just a
great combination. Now just look at that, I think the combination of lemon curd
and coconut yogurt, you just can't beat it. Having said that I'd love to hear if
you've got a better combination but here goes, I'm going to tuck in and give this a
try.
Wow that is heavenly, it is so, so good. I love it. Now the reason we made this with
the probiotics also was to keep it completely lactose free and it still
tastes really delicious, so if you're intolerant towards any milk products.
This is the yogurt for you, oh it's so good, I'm going in for a second helping
of this. Share the love, comments down below, let me know what you
think of it, if you do any yogurts or you make something with some beautiful
fruits in it, send me a picture across on social media. In the meantime have a
great week and I will see you for another episode of Steve's kitchen very
shortly. Chin! Chin!