41 culture recipes

Indian lassi panna cotta: silky Italian-style set cream infused with cardamom and rose water, topped with crushed pistachios and toasted coconut. A cross-cultural make-ahead dessert.

Frozen mocha mousse pie made with cultured cream, dark chocolate, cocoa powder, and brown sugar whipped to stiff peaks, set in pie crusts. A unique fermented chocolate dessert.

Try to make your own cheese, it sounds a little bit crazy, but the homemade cheese tastes a lot fresher and more tasty; it can be used in lots of recipes!

Sourdough starter made with skim milk, yogurt, and flour. A yogurt-cultured method from 1973 that creates an active starter in 2 to 5 days with no commercial yeast.

Just milk, yogurt, and flour. This 3-ingredient sourdough starter uses live yogurt cultures to kickstart fermentation, giving you a bubbly, tangy base for homemade sourdough bread in about 3 days.

Homemade yogurt in a thermos: just milk and a spoonful of starter yogurt, cultured 7 hours in a warm thermos for thick, tangy results. No yogurt maker needed, served with fresh raspberries.

Navajo Fry Bread is a golden, crisp-edged flatbread with a soft, pillowy centre, deeply rooted in Native American culture. Whether sweet or savoury, it's a timeless comfort food made from simple ingredients.

Homemade yogurt from powdered milk, heated then cooled and cultured with a spoon of store-bought plain yogurt. A clever thermos incubation trick sets it thick and tangy with no yogurt maker needed.

Homemade curd cheese from just milk and yogurt, no rennet needed. Culture the milk until set, then drain it through a cloth into a fresh, soft, tangy cheese. A simple German-style quark for spreads and baking.