There are loads of vegan curd recipes on blogs and YouTube channels out there. Most of the online recipes use store-bought non-dairy curd as the starter. But… what if you don’t have the option of buying any vegan curd off the shelves in your local supermarket, as is the case in most Indian cities?
Relax! There are numerous ways of making your own vegan curd starter at home with some easily available ingredients.
Here are 5+ methods—all tried and tested—for you to try!
- Moong dal starter
- Curd starter with peanuts & ginger
- How to make a starter with oats?
- Make curd starter with dalia/broken wheat!
- Make vegan curd starter with idli batter!
- How to make curd starter with cooked rice/poha?
- How to make curd starter with kateera gond?
- Turn almonds into vegan curd starter
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I have tried the first recipe (peanut and chilli) and it works really well. However, since I was very doubtful of my skills in setting the curd, I added 1 teaspoon of lemon juice along with the broken chilli, and it set perfectly. 😀 Anyway I think it would have been set so even if I didn’t add lemon juice. I prefer broken chilli method more than the chilli crown method. I think the former works better. 😁
Yay 🙂
Glad to know the broken chilli method works well for you!
Same method i used and got great result.👌
Glad to know 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
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The mung bean water as a starter is a trick that really works for me almost all the time.. thank you for the same.
Yay! thanks for your feedback, Amar 🙂
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