Today I experimented with making homemade soy yogurt.
I don’t think I ever blogged about this, but I tried making soy yogurt once before. I used my new Salton yogurt maker (for some reason, these yogurt makers are now being sold for about $100 – but just 2 1/2 months ago I paid $21.82. Inflation?!) and I used a recipe that called for agar agar powder. Well I bought agar agar FLAKES, thinking ok similar enough. Well, the yogurt ended up having a horrible texture. I threw it all out and decided to try again when I came into possession of agar agar powder, which hasn’t happened yet.
Then the other day I stumbled on what I’d call a very “casual” soygurt recipe on Have Cake Will Travel. (This looks like an awesome blog by the way. Her current recipe for PB&J Pie looks amazing! I think I will follow the blog but OH NO WHERE’S THE RSS FEED SIGN UP??) So I tried the soygurt recipe today and gosh darn it’s looking pretty good!
Here are some (not-so-great) photos of my process:
Mixed together the ingredients and got this:
After one minute in the microwave it looked like this:
After another minute in the microwave:
You really have to watch the soygurt closely to make sure it doesn’t foam over and mess up your microwave!
And finally, it looked like this:
The recipe recommends adding in fruit and flavorings at this point but I am keeping it plain. This way once I’m ready to eat it I can add in whatever I’m feeling in the moment.
So the soygurt is going into the fridge to chill and thicken. The flavor is good, so we’ll see what kind of texture we get. I can’t wait to see what I have tomorrow morning! Stay tuned….
Do you have a great non-dairy yogurt recipe?
We took this picture of Marty tonight while we were out on our walk. She’s walking herself LOL!
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Marty is adorable! she makes me miss having a pup for a friend. how old is she? she looks like just my Pampa who passed away a few years ago.
thanks for trying the yogurt! I hope it’ll have turned out for you, tastewise too.
you asked about an RSS feed, and I added the info to the right side of the site after the blogroll list. I wanted to give you the link directly but it’s very long and I think wordpress would see it as spam. ha!
anyway, thanks for trying the recipe. teach me yoga?
Hi Celine! Thanks for pointing me to the RSS
I am going to make your PB&J pie today – it looks so good! My hubby says he doesn’t like PB&J (I know, weird and un-American) so I’m excited to see him try it.
Cute pic!! Walking herself, see dogs are like humans! Haha
ha! I love that your husband isn’t the biggest fan of PB & J, it makes him stand out from the crowd. good for him!
For future reference, you can get agar agar powder readily on the cheap at asian markets. There is an asian market in the same complex as the Sphinx Cafe that I know carries it!
soygurt, hmmm maybe I need to try this recipe, im like a total yogurt addict. I will whip this up tomorrow and let you know how it came out