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!