Crock-Pot Homemade Yogurt Recipe (2024)

Written by: Crock-Pot Ladies 16 Comments

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

If you’re tired of paying for expensive yogurt, this is a super simple easy economical way to make your own yogurt! With just two ingredients you can have your very own Crock-Pot Homemade Yogurt! Flavor the yogurt with your favorite fruits or extracts for a healthy breakfast or snack!

Slow Cooker Homemade Yogurt

Making your own homemade yogurt in your slow cooker is super easy and a so frugal too! All you need is two ingredients (milk and some plain yogurt with live active cultures) and some time.

And once you have made your first batch of yogurt you can reserve half a cup to use as a starter culture for your next batch of home-made yogurt.

The key to making your own yogurt is starting with a good quality plain yogurt (no sweeteners, flavorings, or fruit in the store bought yogurt). The yogurt needs to have live active cultures.

You can find out if the yogurt you are buying has live active cultures by looking on the side of the container on the ingredients list. You should see it listed as something along the lines of “Live Active Yogurt Cultures” and then may list out the specific types of cultures in the yogurt.

These cultures are what makes yogurt…well yogurt and are wonderful gut healthy probiotics.

The other thing you will need is milk. I personally used 2% cows milk from the grocery store (and that is what the nutritional information is calculated based on). But, you can use any percentage fat (skim, whole, 1%) cow milk, sheep milk or goat milk.

Your milk can be store bought or fresh raw or pasteurized milk from a farm.

The only kind of milk you don’t want to use is any milk that has been highly pasteurized. This process is used to heat the milk up to a higher temperature to make it more shelf stable.

The process is quite simple and the flavor is SO good!

Equipment Needed For Crock-Pot Homemade Yogurt Recipe:

6 Quart, 6.5 Quart Or 7 Quart Slow Cooker
Instant Read Thermometer OR Candy Thermometer
Liquid Measuring Cup
Whisk
Bath Towels
Colander
Cheesecloth, Clean Flour Sack Kitchen Towel OR Coffee Filters

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Use Goat Milk To Make Yogurt In My Slow Cooker?

Yes, you can use any type of raw or pasteurized milk from goats, sheep or cows. You can even use a combination of milks.

How Much Yogurt Does Recipe Make

Special Diets

This recipe for Crock-Pot Homemade Yogurt is Weight Watchers Friendly on the new Personal Points plan. You can see the WW personal points for this recipe here on the Weight Watchers website. Click here for MORE of our Weight Watchers Recipes

More Breakfast Slow Cooker Recipes To Try!

Crock-Pot Basic Baked Oatmeal

Use this recipe for Slow Cooker Basic Baked Oatmeal as a base recipe to create all sorts of flavored baked oatmeal for breakfast! Just 7 ingredients!

Crock-Pot Hash

Warm up to a yummy home-cooked breakfast with this Slow Cooker Hash recipe. We love a great crock-pot breakfast recipe and this one is a keeper!

Crock-Pot Hot Chocolate Oatmeal

Need an excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast? This hearty gluten-free & vegetarian recipe for Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate Oatmeal hits the spot on a chilly day!

Crock-Pot Ooey Gooey Cinnamon Rolls + Video

Wake up to delicious & warm Slow Cooker Ooey Gooey Cinnamon Rolls! Frozen cinnamon rolls are baked in a buttery sauce right in your slow cooker for breakfast!

Recipe Collections:

6 Quart Crock-Pot Recipes
6.5 Quart Crock-Pot Recipes
7 Quart Crock-Pot Recipes
Breakfast Recipes
Kid Friendly Crock-Pot Recipes

Crock-Pot Homemade Yogurt Recipe

Heidi Kennedy

Top your homemade granola with fresh berries and granola if desired and sweeten to your liking with sugar, agave syrup, honey or whatever type of sweetener you like!

4.12 from 18 votes

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 2 hours hrs

Total Time 2 hours hrs 5 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 6 People

Calories 170 kcal

Ingredients

½ Gallon Milk (*See note)
½ Cup Plain Yogurt (With Active Live Cultures)

Instructions

Pour the milk into a 6 quart or larger slow cooker.
Cover and cook on LOW for 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours or until the temperature of the milk reaches 180° F (82° C) on an instant read thermometer or candy thermometer.
Unplug the slow cooker and let the milk sit with the lid on undisturbed for 3 hours.
Remove lid from slow cooker and gently whisk in the 1/2 cup of plain yogurt with live cultures
Place lid back on slow cooker and wrap the entire slow cooker with heavy towels to insulate the slow cooker.
Let sit unplugged on the counter for 8 hours or overnight.
For a thicker yogurt (Greek style) set a colander over a large bowl and line the a colander with several layers of cheesecloth, clean tea towel or coffee filters and place the bowl with colander and yogurt in it in the refrigerator and strain the whey off the yogurt until the yogurt is as thick as you like it. 2 to 3 hours should be sufficient.
Serve yogurt with fresh fruit, yogurt and sweetener of your choice.

Notes

You can use any type of dairy milk (cow, sheep, goat, etc.) in this recipe that is either raw, pasteurized or hom*ogenized. However, avoid using milk that is ultra pasteurized. For the creamiest yogurt use whole milk yogurt but to shave off calories and fat grams you can use fat-free, 1%, or 2% milk. The nutritional information calculated in this recipe uses 2% milk. Before sweetening or adding any flavors to your yogurt, set aside 1/2 cup of your homemade slow cooker yogurt to use as the starter of your next batch.

Nutrition

Tried this recipe?Rate the recipe and then let us know how it was!