Homemade Probiotic Yogurt recipe

Maintain a healthy gut microbiome.

Luvele is expanding its commitment to fermentation and gut health by offering a range of authentic starter cultures for home fermenters. If you're looking for an easy and economical way to make probiotic-rich yogurt at home, this new starter culture is the perfect place to begin.

As interest in probiotic foods continues to grow, we're excited to introduce a premium starter culture that's simple to use and consistently delivers thick, creamy homemade yogurt with a classic tangy flavour. There's no separation, no complicated techniques and no guesswork—just beautifully cultured yogurt packed with millions of live, active bacteria.

Making yogurt at home allows you to enjoy it at its freshest while nurturing your gut microbiome with every spoonful. Unlike commercially produced yogurt, homemade yogurt can be cultured for longer, allowing the beneficial bacteria to multiply naturally and create a probiotic-rich yogurt that's difficult to match in store-bought varieties.

Our Probiotic Starter has been carefully formulated with a blend of five beneficial bacterial species to maximise both flavour and probiotic diversity. Each sachet contains live active cultures, including Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis and Lactobacillus reuteri.

Starter Health

Starter Health cultures come in convenient sachets containing a perfectly balanced blend of live bacteria and nothing more. They are free from preservatives, additives, artificial colours and flavours, contain no GMO ingredients, and are also soy free, gluten free, Halal and Kosher.

Each box of Probiotic Starter contains 12 sachets, with each sachet culturing up to 2 litres of homemade yogurt. This is an heirloom starter culture, meaning the live bacteria remain active so you can use a portion of your freshly made yogurt to culture your next batch for as long as you wish. Simply reserve a quarter of a cup of yogurt from each batch and store it in the fridge ready to start the next one.

Whether you're making yogurt for the first time or you're an experienced home fermenter, Starter Health's range of starter cultures offers a simple, reliable way to bring traditional culturing into your kitchen. With step-by-step instructions, helpful videos and expert support, you'll have everything you need to make fresh, delicious homemade yogurt with confidence.

Dairy Free Yogurt

You can also use the Probiotic Starter to make delicious dairy-free homemade yogurt. Although the starter cultures are grown in dairy, the small amount of milk present in each sachet is consumed by the live bacteria during the fermentation process.

INGREDIENTS

Starter Health Probiotic Starter
Whole/Full Cream Milk (up to 2 L/2.1 qt)

PREPARATION

Before you begin it is important to sterilise the Luvele yogurt making glass jar, lid, and any utensils you use, in hot water. Pouring boiling water over everything is sufficient. The danger of not sterilising is that other bacteria may overpower your starter culture and affect the quality of your yogurt.

METHOD

Measure Milk
Measure the quantity of milk required for your Luvele yogurt maker and pour into a large, clean saucepan.

Heat and hold the milk at 82°C (180°F) 
Use a thermometer. Note, as you become more confident with heating milk to make yogurt you will be able to judge when the milk is nearing 82°C (180°F) because it will begin to swell and rise in the pot (just before it simmers). Hold the heat at this temperature for anywhere between 2 - 10 minutes. The longer the better. Holding the milk at this high temperature allows the milk proteins to denature which thickens the yogurt.

Cover the milk & let cool to below 43°C (109°F)
It is fine if the milk cools down well below 43°C or even goes cold, it just mustn't be too hot. Temperatures above 44°C will kill the starter culture.

Add the starter culture and whisk
Open the sachet and empty the entire contents into the milk. Whisk vigorously to evenly disperse.

Pour the milk into the yogurt making jar
Put the lid firmly on and place the yogurt jar into your yogurt maker.  

Pour water slowly into the base.
The water must not be filled over the ‘tall line’ indicated on the inside wall of the maker.

Place the cover lid on top. 
The milk is now ready to begin fermentation.

Set the time & temperature.
Use the digital control panel to set the temperature to 43° C (109° F), and the time to 8-hours.

When the timer goes off, the fermentation is complete.
Condensation will have collected under the cover lid. Please take care removing it and allow the water to drip into the water bath, instead of your bench! Switch the yogurt maker off and remove the yogurt jar. Be gentle with the warm yogurt and don’t stir it or else it won’t set in a perfect white mass. 

Place the jar in the fridge for at least 6 hours to chill and set.
Then enjoy!

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