How To Make Your Own Yogurt + Use It In 12 Recipes

Yogurt is the unsung hero of the fridge. It's a cool balance to spicy cuisines, a reliable on-the-go breakfast, and home to all sorts of healthy bacteria. Greek, spiced, whipped, or frozen, yogurt is a dairy product of many talents -- a Renaissance ingredient.

Sadly, poor yogurt gets the processed treatment all too often. Putting it in tubes? Packing it with sugar and food coloring? Why? Don't put your yogurt through that when it's so simple (and so delicious) to make at home. While you're at it, double the batch and use it in as many of these recipes as you'd like.

More: Our DIY kits include everything you need to make your own yogurt and Greek yogurt.

Homemade Yogurt by Merrill Stubbs

Yogurt Pancakes with Pomegranate by Cara Eisenpress

Yogurt with Toasted Quinoa, Dates, and Almonds by Amanda Hesser

The Jumpin' Monkey by fiveandspice

Lentils folded into Yogurt, Spinach, and Basil by Peter Miller

Chickpea Fries with Yogurt Dipping Sauce by Justforlicks

Eggplant Dip with Yogurt (Borani-e Bademjan) by Nicholas Day

Yogurt Bread with Molasses by Marian Bull

Diane Kochilas' Pasta with Yogurt and Caramelized Onions by Genius Recipes

Joaquín Simó's Pearls Before Swine (A Yogurt Cocktail) by Genius Recipes

Mujaddara with Spiced Yogurt by Rivka

Yogurt Biscuits Without a Recipe by Posie Harwood

 

Rosemary Honey Lemon Frozen Yogurt by The Cooking of Joy