HHow to Make Curd at Home | Homemade Yogurt | Dahi Recipe with step by step pictures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. What is Curd?

2. How to Make Yogurt

3. How fresh curd can be consumed:

4. Frequently Asked Questions

5. Homemade Curd | How to Make Yogurt at Home

6. Homemade Curd step by step pictures

Homemade Curd | Yogurt

If you ask me, what is your first necessary stuff in a kitchen. My answer would be fridge, I know you all will agree to this. I cannot live without a fridge in my kitchen. It keeps all our foods and stuff fresh and prevent them from getting spoiled. I would strongly suggest you to invest a good amount of money in a good proper fridge.

What is Curd?

Curd is a traditional yogurt or fermented milk product, originating from the Indian subcontinent, usually prepared from cow's milk, and sometimes buffalo milk, or goat milk. It is popular throughout the Indian subcontinent.

Check out this post for making curd using milk powder.

How to Make Yogurt

Take your milk in a sauce pan or in a microwave safe bowl. Boil it. If you are using microwave, boil it for 6 to 7 mins. Keep a eye over the milk.
Remove this from the pan and pour it into another bowl and allow it to come to luke warm temperature.
Now take a clean container. Add your curd in that and beat it till it gets creamy and smooth.
Now pour over the luke warm milk and whisk it till combined. You should mix this very good. You can use a hand blender to mix it well.
Cover the container with a lid and leave it in a warm place(in my house everywhere is warm, so i leave it over the counter top) for around 6 to 8 hours, it even takes 10 hours.
Once it has had it time. Place them in the fridge for a good couple of hours.
Now your yogurt is done.
You can serve as it is or add some sugar and serve as lassi.

How fresh curd can be consumed:

Add some sugar into the thick curd and beat it well, have it as lassi.

Add some salt, ginger & chilli juice, water and beat it well till it forms a liquid. This is what we call as sambaram.

Now getting back to the recipe. Are you bored of tasting the store bought gelatin stuff. Make some fresh yogurt at home and you will love it. They taste so refreshing and cool, i make my own yogurt each time. This is a basic stuff which i should have in my fridge always. Make sure you read the notes section carefully, because i have consolidated all your question in there.

Frequently Asked Questions

1)About Starter

Try to use a good starter to make your first batch of curd. It can be storebought or it can be from your previous batch of curd. The starter should be at room temperature.

2)About Milk

If you want thick, creamy curd just like mine, Use a full fat milk. I always use "Arokya milk" when i make curd. If you use skimmed or low fat milk then the curd will not set thick, It will be runny.

3)About Temperature:

The temperature of the milk should be luke warm, just as the water which you add yeast in while making bread. If you add starter curd to hot milk, then the milk will curdle. If you add starter curd to cold milk, then the curd wont set. So make sure your milk is warm when you add the starter curd in. Another way to find the temperature of the milk is. If you dip your finger into the milk, it should be like a very warm bath, if it is too hot then you should allow the milk to cool completely.

If you live in cold place then, you want to leave the container in a warm oven for 8 to 10 hours. Turn the oven light on, so that it creates a warm temperature inside the oven.

4)About Vessels:

You can use stainless steel utensil, air tight plastic containers, tupperwares, glass containers.

5)How it works.

When you mix your starter curd into warm milk, the bacteria in the curd reacts with the warm milk and turn the entire milk into curd.

If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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Homemade Curd step by step pictures

You will need some full fat milk and a tbspn of curd

Take a clean container in which you are gonna set curd

add a tblspn of curd in it

and whisk it till smooth

I use microwave to heat milk...
Boil milk and allow them to cool till they are luke warm

Now take the milk and pour it in

Pour the warm milk in the curd

use a whisk to mix the mixture

mix it well

clamp a lid and set it in a warm place

I did a double batch

Now the yogurt is set..Transfer it to fridge

Now when you touch it it will be like a set pudding

Grab a spoon and take your first bite

Enjoy..

You can add some sugar and have it as lassi too..

Comments

Nisa Homey

January 10, 2013 at 9:15 am

Curd is a necessity and a favorite...nice post and tutorial..

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beingFab

January 10, 2013 at 12:11 pm

Lovely!!

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Coral Crue

January 11, 2013 at 9:09 am

I love it! can you show how to make home made butter too? my aunt makes it and ghee too but i do not know how to achieve that perfection

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Sweetlime

January 11, 2013 at 9:20 am

luks so lovely and the presciption is good...

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Meenakshi

August 14, 2014 at 3:16 pm

Looks like you read my mind... I was about to pm you to show the recipe for curd.. Many thanks

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angel star

August 20, 2014 at 6:58 pm

Hi arthi
realy usegul for beginners

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angel star

August 20, 2014 at 6:59 pm

Hi arthi
Really useful for beginners

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susila

December 12, 2014 at 9:25 am

Thanks Arthi . Now I see clearly how to make yogurt.

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ramya

December 12, 2014 at 9:46 am

Hi arthi,

Nice post. I used to buy curd from outside only. I tried few times at home. Not come out perfect.

Also, i had one doubt. If u pour in plastic container, how it will convert. Plastic cointainer la uuthivachaa thayir convert aaguma. Clarify my doubt please.

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Aarthi

December 12, 2014 at 5:01 pm

@ramyayes u can use good plastic container

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priya shalini Kanagarajah

January 15, 2015 at 5:28 am

Hi, I would like to what are the recipes there to make specially gravy or kolambu using spoilt milk? Thank you.

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shayan asif

January 30, 2015 at 11:03 am

Helpful post 🙂
Dear Aarthi setting curd during winters takes time any which way cud I make d procedure easier?

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Aarthi

January 31, 2015 at 12:03 pm

@shayan asifu can set them in oven with light on. Or put it near heater or inside a microwave with lights on.

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Anonymous

February 11, 2015 at 4:44 pm

How do we know the curd has gotten its time to set? As in how do we determine whether 6hours or 8hours is enough before we can refrigerate it?

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Aarthi

February 11, 2015 at 5:43 pm

@Anonymouswhen u look at the curd it wil look set.if it is not that set then leave it for few more hours.

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- abinaya
  
  February 19, 2015 at 7:42 am
  
  Hi one doubt.I tried ur curd recipe.it came out so thick and creamy but there is little water in it
  What might be the reason.
  
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Aarthi

February 20, 2015 at 1:34 pm

@abinayaif your milk has extra water in it, then it will separate.

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sudha

February 21, 2015 at 4:44 am

Its really yummy

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Sheba

March 07, 2015 at 6:46 am

For how many days can i give this

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Aarthi

March 08, 2015 at 2:00 am

@Shebato whom?

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Aarthi

March 08, 2015 at 2:01 am

@Shebaif you are asking how many days you can store this, then you can keep it in fridge for a week or even more

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Sheba

March 09, 2015 at 12:34 pm

Sorry..i meant keeping arathi. .thanks for the reply
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Mumtaz begum

April 04, 2015 at 1:08 pm

It is sooooo tasty arthi...my 2yr kid enjoying it with sugar....

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Mumtaz begum

April 04, 2015 at 1:09 pm

It is soooooo tasty arthi... My 2 yr kid enjoying it with sugar...

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Anonymous

June 30, 2015 at 4:33 pm

hey i stay in usa where we have for milk and curd of store brought expiry date
so can we use it for starter and use it

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Aarthi

July 02, 2015 at 1:00 pm

@Anonymousyes u can use

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Anonymous

November 06, 2015 at 1:22 am

Hi,

Thanks for posting the recipe.
Can you suggest if I can make it in an air tight container, with the lid closed?

Regards,
Jasbir Kaur

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Aarthi

November 06, 2015 at 6:16 pm

@Anonymousyes you can

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Anonymous

November 23, 2015 at 6:42 am

Hi Aarthi,

I work on a rig and I have only milk but don't have a teaspoon of yogurt so how can I prepare yogurt without having even a little yogurt. Please advise.

Regards,
Deepak

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Aarthi

November 25, 2015 at 2:38 am

@Anonymousadd little lemon juice to milk, mix and set aside undisturbed for 30 mins.

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Anonymous

July 07, 2016 at 11:04 pm

Pls guide on making curd from milk powder as no fresh milk available here.thanks

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Viji

August 16, 2017 at 5:04 pm

Hi there sister, can i use fresh cow's milk to make curd? I made it but it was a bit watery. Is it because i mixed little water? Please advice

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Raaji

February 02, 2020 at 1:51 pm

1.Please don’t use plastic to heat or along with warm food in it, however good the quality of plastic is, it leaches into food and causes cancers.
2. Never use microwave unless it is emergency, some countries have banned its usage due to its negativity.
Always follow/use what our mothers/grandparents used like gas stoves and steel vessels. If possible using a clay pot for curd will enhance its taste as well as will increase its health benefits like probiotics etc.

I follow and like your recipes but never wrote a comment but writing this as many people follow your blog and will be doing the same.

Plastic and microwaves are one of the many reasons for increasing cancer cases.

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