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Default Cooking with Yogurt

On Jun 25, 7:28*am, "James Silverton" >
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> *Kalmia *wrote *on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:08:22 -0700 (PDT):
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> > On Jun 24, 10:19 am, Dan Abel > wrote:
> >> In article >,

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> >> *hungrygirl > wrote:
> > >> Can you freeze foods cooked with yogurt?
> > >> Sometimes a recipe calls for yogurt in the gravy or
> > >> marinade.

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

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> >> 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.

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

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> 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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Fat-free yogurt is chockfull of gelatin.