
Iceland / Breakfast
Skyr with berries
Home-made skyr, the Icelandic cultured dairy, strained thick, with bilberries.
Ingredients
- Skimmed milk4 l
- Skyr or yoghurt as starter100 g
- Rennet2 pinches
- Bilberries400 g
- Cream, to serve150 ml
- Sugar60 g
- Rolled oats, to serve100 g
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Heat the milk to 85 °C, stirring, and hold it ten minutes without letting it boil.
Cool the milk to 40 °C by standing the pot in cold water.
Slacken the starter with a ladle of the warm milk and stir it back into the pot.
Add the rennet, stir for a few seconds and cover the pot.
Leave it somewhere warm for twelve hours, until the mass sets into a firm curd.
Turn the curd into a cloth and hang it over a bowl for six hours to drain the whey.
Whisk the skyr smooth and serve it with bilberries, cream and oats.

