Can I Make Soy Yogurt At Home? Good Questions

Can I Make Soy Yogurt At Home?
Good Questions

Q: Is there a way to make soy yogurt at home? I don't eat dairy and I love soy yogurt. But it's fairly pricey in my area of the country, and I want to cut my food budget.

Has anyone successfully made it themselves?

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Editor: Squirrely, it seems that yes, you can make soy yogurt at home, but some people say that you do need to either buy a commercial yogurt starter, or use a bit of regular dairy yogurt. Using storebought soy yogurt as a starter sometimes doesn't work. The most complete and helpful instructions we found on all this we found here:

• Soy yogurt making instructions at Ellen's Kitchen
• SoyQuick yogurt instructions - These instructions say you can use storebought yogurt to start, but you also need to add some sugar.

We also found one other very unusual ingredient used as a soy yogurt starter at this site:

• The Secret of Making Soy Yogurt Without Storebought Culture at Live 2 Cook

Do any of you have experience with making soy yogurt? Any good sources or resources for Squirrely?

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Comments (3)

I haven't tried these, so I'm not sure how yogurt-like they actually are, but this website gives a few totally non-dairy options (non-soy too).

http://havecakewilltravel.com/2009/05/26/homemade-sorta-soygurt/

http://havecakewilltravel.com/2009/05/31/more-sorta-yogurts/

posted by forked on September 22nd 2009 at 10:20am
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I've made non-soy yogurt in my crockpot via the Crockpot Lady method, which someone replicated with allegen free options here.

posted by kestrel127 on September 22nd 2009 at 12:38pm
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Yes. I've made great soy yogurt using a standard Euro Cuisine type yogurt maker, sweetened plain soymilk (Silk and Eden) and a little bit of plain soy yogurt as a starter.

I love the results...the homemade soygurt is far less sweet with a sharp tanginess. The texture is looser but still is more delicate too since manufactured soy yogurts have all those gums and/or starches to thicken them. I find I really do prefer the softer, silkier texture of soy yogurt with all that stuff.

I've also tried almond milk and hemp milk with unfortunately not so great results. But sweetened soy milk works great!

posted by beelzabean on September 22nd 2009 at 8:57pm
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