Homemade curd

• Servings: 8-10
• Boiling time: 15 minutes.
• Preparation time: 2 minutes.
• Setting time: 6-8 hours
• Total time: 17 minutes.

Curd boosts our immune system, helps hormone production and keeps our bones and organs healthy, above all our brain too.Good homemade natural curd has great flavour and it is very satisfying.

Ingredients:

• Milk (full cream/ as you wish): 1 litre
• Green cardamom: 2-3 no.
• Curd/yogurt: 1 table spoon

Preparation:

1. Boil milk and continue it at least 10-12 minutes on lower medium flame; boil few more minutes to make thick curd.
2. Open cardamom skin from one side.

Method:

1. Cool down this milk to Luke warm/room temperature.
2. Add green cardamom in the milk. Green cardamom adds flavour as well as keeps the curd sweet for longer.
3. Add curd/ yogurt into the milk; stir well to mix with milk.
4. Cover it and put this in a warm place, after 6-8 hours, depending on the weather, it gets ready faster in warm weather.
5. You can make curd into casserole in the winter season, or you should keep it warm by wrapping paper or cloth.
6. Now your curd is ready, you can keep into refrigerator to store for a week or two.
7. Now thick and creamy homemade curd is ready to serve with paratha, like Paneer Paratha, Flex Seed paratha…..
8.  Full cream milk curd sets properly, it is thick and creamy. Other milk curd does not set well and it is watery.
9. Curd is very- very easy to make at home.

   

   

   

   

   

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