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involves two steps. The rst step is to pasteurize the milk by heang it to 180° F/83° C. This serves
two purposes: (1) killing pathogens and harmful bacteria which can
grow during the fermentaon period, and (2) denaturing milk
proteins, which prevents curding of milk and makes the proteins
easier to absorb.
Instant Pot® provides two convenient ways to heat your milk. If you
use the inner pot to make yogurt, press “Yogurt” then “Adjust” to
“More” mode with the word “boil” on the display. Instant Pot® will
then boil the milk to 180° F/83° C. When it’s done, it beeps and
displays “yogt”.
If you use containers or boles to make yogurt, you can steam the
milk by: adding 1 cup of water in the inner pot, pung in the
steam rack and placing your containers or boles on top of the
rack. Select the “Steam” funcon and set the me for 1 minute.
Once the process is over, use the “Natural Release” method to
release the steam.
The second step aer heang the milk is to let it cool to below
115°F/46°C, then add an adequate amount of yogurt starter or
fresh yogurt. If you use containers or boles, you can place them
in the inner pot without adding any addional water. Press the
“Yogurt” funcon key, press “Adjust” to “Normal” mode and then
adjust the me using the “+” and “-“ keys based on the
instrucons of the yogurt starter. The program automacally
starts in 10 seconds. When the program completes, Instant Pot®
beeps, displays “yogt” and goes to standby state.
The yogurt can be served plain together with other dishes (e.g.
curry), or mixed with honey or jam to make a fruit yogurt.
Jiu Niang, also known as fermented glunous rice, is a sweet and
mildly alcoholic delicacy of Asia. It is highly nutrious and easy to
digest, commonly used to make desserts in China, Japan, Korean
and other Asian countries. Glunous rice, also known as scky rice,
is used to make Jiu Niang. Glunous rice contains high
concentraon of starch which is converted to sugars during
fermentaon.
1. Soak two cups of glunous rice in cold water for at least 5
hours unl the rice grains become easily broken with ngers.
2. Drain the water and wrap the soaked rice with cheese cloth and put it into a steaming
basket. Place the basket on top of the steam rack (trivet) and add 2 cups of water into the
inner pot. Run the “Steam” funcon for 30 minutes. Use Natural Release method.
3. Prepare 1 cup of cold boiled water, (normally at a water-to-dry-rice rao of 1:2), starter yeast
powder, and a glass or ceramic container with lid. Make sure that all tools are clean and free
from bacteria, oil and salt.
4. Aer the steamed rice cooled down to below 35°C/95°F, mix the cold water and yeast
powder with the rice thoroughly in the container. Make sure that each rice grain is
separated, rather than stuck together. Gently press the rice mixture together and leave a
hole in the middle of the mixture.
5. Add water to the 3 cup mark in the inner pot. Place the containers into the inner pot with
the steam rack. Water should submerge about 1cm/0.5in of the boom of the containers for
even heat conducon. Make sure to close the lid of the containers to avoid excess