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Default Cooking with Yogurt

Kalmia wrote on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:08:22 -0700 (PDT):

> On Jun 24, 10:19 am, Dan Abel > wrote:
>> In article >,
>>
>> hungrygirl > wrote:
> >> Can you freeze foods cooked with yogurt?
> >> Sometimes a recipe calls for yogurt in the gravy or
> >> marinade.

>>
> >> I know fresh yogurt is ok to freeze, but is cooked yogurt
> >> also ok?

>>
>> Not to answer your question, but, from sad experience, it's
>> not a good idea to "cook" yogurt. Once your dish is cooked,
>> add the yogurt (same goes for sour cream) and bring to
>> serving temperature carefully.
>>


>Yeah - the yogurt breaks up into a zillion tiny white spots in your
>sauce or whatever.


There are Indian curry dishes that call for long slow cooking with
yoghurt and I find that even fat-free yoghurt is quite satisfactory if
the yoghurt is premixed with some flour.

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