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Yogurt Recipe Tips

Find the best yogurt recipe for your restaurant or other food business

By Kristina Seleshanko
Yogurt continues to be a favorite food among Americans--especially those watching their waistlines--and a good yogurt recipe can provide a lot of satisfaction among your customers. Yogurt helps our bodies absorb more milk calcium and B vitamins, may give a boost to our immune systems, helps get rid of intestinal infections and is a terrific source of protein. Plus, it's tasty!

When seeking yogurt recipes and yogurt recipe tips, consider not just frozen yogurt, but also cooking recipes with yogurt in them. Frozen yogurt is a terrific substitute for more fattening ice cream, while yogurt adds surprising flavor to favorite dishes. When researching yogurt recipes, try the following:

1. Seek an online yogurt recipe that appeals to you or has been reviewed favorably by online readers.

2. Buy a yogurt recipe book written by an established cookbook author.

3. Test several yogurt recipes and yogurt recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.

 

Select an online yogurt recipe

Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow cooks (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for a yogurt recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites dedicated to yogurt and dairy products.
Try: Stonyfield Farm, makers of organic yogurt, offer a number of free recipes for cooking with yogurt, including breads, breakfasts, main dishes, desserts, smoothies and soups. The Gutsy Gourmet also offers several yogurt recipes, including Armenian yogurt chicken, crab and yogurt soup, stuffed zucchini with yogurt sauce, and yogurt and meatball soup.

Find a yogurt recipe card for frozen yogurt

Do your customers love ice cream but feel guilty about the fat and calories found in the treat? Then consider offering them frozen yogurt. It's easy to make, healthy and scrumptious to eat.
Try: Quamut provides a few frozen yogurt recipes online; included are vanilla and blueberry flavors. Suite101.com features a fabulous "peanutty Cool Whip" frozen yogurt recipe. MakeIceCream.com offers several frozen yogurt recipes, such as raspberry, peach and chocolate flavors.

Make use of a yogurt recipe book

A good yogurt recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in serving yogurt to your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general tips that can help make yogurt dishes easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try: Tower.com sells Sonia Uvezian's "The Book of Yogurt," which contains over 200 recipes for cooking with yogurt at every meal. Cooking.com carries "The Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Cookbook" by Mable and Gar Hoffman, a great guide to making frozen yogurt.

 

  • When working with yogurt recipe ingredients, think outside the box. For example, did you know yogurt makes a superb marinade? It's true! Yogurt's acid content makes it perfect for tenderizing meats.

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