We used to travel a lot and on coming back, to start setting the curds again, it was a difficult job to hunt for starter curd. When the starter was used from factory made curd, it used to take a couple of batches to get the proper taste. So it was a real boon when I got this easy method to set curds.
Ingredients
1 cup boiled, slightly cooled milk
1 red chilli along with its stalk
Instruction
- Drop the red chilli along with its stalk into the warm (almost hot) milk.
- Cover it and keep in a warm place. It may take 12 to 18 hours to set nicely.
- This can be used as starter curd to set further batches of delicious curd.
- Since the curd set with the red chilli will have the strong flavour of chilli, you may not enjoy eating it as it is, but can be used to make kadhi.
Ya i have used this methid but only with the stalk n it worked. Have also heard soaking batch of almonds in curd for a day and storing them as a starter for curd . And in Rajesthan i have seen people using a perticular stone as a curd starter.
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