What can I do with greek yogurt?
What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
I paid a lot of money for some unsweetened greek yogurt, and I can't find a way to make it edible. I tried adding fruit, but the strawberries I bought were sour and the bananas don't provide enough flavor to penetrate 5% greek yogurt. What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
I paid a lot of money for some unsweetened greek yogurt, and I can't find a way to make it edible. I tried adding fruit, but the strawberries I bought were sour and the bananas don't provide enough flavor to penetrate 5% greek yogurt. What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
When I was borderline diabetic years ago I liked vanilla yoghurt with Nutella hazel nut spread, a nice fusion of flavours...I sometimes mix a teaspoonful of pure peanut butter (no sweeteners, sugar, added oil etc) into a couple of dessert spoonfuls of yoghurt - that’s quite tasty.
You could if you had to, add some sugar free sweetener to it and berries, maybe some nuts. I'd avoid bananas myself as they are a high carb high fructose food. If you make smoothies, you can add it to those. I'd google for ideas as well.
There is no sense in buying a low carb yoghurt and adding banana - there is no benefit from eating high carb fruits.
Maybe make a sugar free jelly and whip some of the yoghurt into it?
full fat yoghurt isn't normally very expensive - I get mine in Lidl or Tesco.
What is the 5 percent?
Add some low carb sweetener if you want, use a smaller portion of yoghurt, and add some unsalted mixed nuts and seeds. Use it as a substitute for mayo in tuna salad or lettuce wraps. Make a curry and put a dollop of yoghurt on top.
I'd agree with a substitute for mayo or other dressings. If you like spicey food, a bit of chilli sauce, or a few finely chopped chillies, a squirt of lemon or ideally lime juice, Salt and pepper, and off you go.
You could add a dollop, instead of milk, cream or butter to scrambled eggs.
If you want something sweeter, you could add some sweetener, then grate some very high cocoa content chocolate and maybe a few nuts onto it.
Personally, I like Greek yoghurt and whilst I usually make it with cow's milk, so not strictly Greek, I love by yoghurt breakfasts.
I like plain yoghurt as it is, especially the high fat greek ones. It may be an aquired taste, in the Netherlands 'yoghurt' is plain yoghurt, and is eaten by many people just as it is, the ones with added stuff are seen as a fancy luxury, like sweets. I can imagine how yoghurt wouldn't taste very nice when your mind expects a sweet fruit yoghurt, plain yoghurt is a different product with its own taste. Something like red currants tasting good, but not when you're expecting the sweetness of strawberries.
I love to make a zaziki with yoghurt and eat it with warm dishes. This is how I like my zaziki:
Move enough yoghurt from the tub to a bowl to make room for the cucumber (I usually either eat that bit right away or share it with the dogs and cats, or put it in the fridge for 'later' and forget about it until it starts to look funny). Grate a half cucumber or more, peel and all, the peel makes it look nice. Squish it to get rid of part of the fluid (I drink the cucumber juice, it tastes quite nice or I give it to the guinea-pigs). Add a pinch of salt, some lemon juice or zest, a couple of cloves of garlic and a splash of olive oil. Mix and leave for a couple of hours before eating.
I eat it with all kinds of warm dishes but when I have a tub of it in my fridge I also steal a couple of spoonfuls regularly when opening the fridge for something else.
DCUKMod: If I could make a daily breakfast out of it, that would be great. Right now my go-to is cheesy eggs and bacon. But I can't eat that meal in the morning on workdays because I'm paranoid that I'll burn the entire house down. I usually eat nothing or, even worse, a sugary Starbucks latte. ... God's still working on me.
Do you have any other breakfast recipes? Also, what brand and type of chocolate do you use?
Depends on what nuts you like, I tend to like pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, or as a treat macadamia nuts, but those are high calorie.Unsalted nuts are a good idea. What are some tasty nuts to use? What are some good low-carb sweeteners?
And I like the idea of using it as a substitute for may in tuna salad. I haven't eaten a tuna salad sandwich since I was a kid.
I paid a lot of money for some unsweetened greek yogurt, and I can't find a way to make it edible. I tried adding fruit, but the strawberries I bought were sour and the bananas don't provide enough flavor to penetrate 5% greek yogurt. What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
Thank you, Tophat1900! I didn’t think of nuts. That’s a great idea!
I did buy some Stevia to add it and strawberries to the yogurt, but I'm not sure how much Stevia to use. Plus, the liquid Stevia I bought has a super-strong aftertaste. Is that normal? Or was buying off-brand Stevia a bad idea?
I did google for ideas. However, most of them were for savory dishes, and (I didn’t want to admit this “out loud” in my first post) I’m looking for something sweet. I really fruit on the bottom yogurt and was hoping to make a low-carb version.
As for the banana, I'm still new to LCHF and my pantry isn't fully stocked for my new diet. So I'm reticent to throw out my high-carb foods like pasta until I know how to make a varied and delicious LCHF diet. So far, I have about five recipes for home-cooked meals and several few supermarket salads that I like. That’s not enough meals for one week, let alone week after week.
Definitely an acquired taste, and don't give up! Keep trying, your palate will change and most importantly - NOT ALL YOGURTS ARE CREATED EQUAL!!! Try others, mine costs pence and comes in a bucket from Lidl, or the full fat one from Aldi is nice tooI paid a lot of money for some unsweetened greek yogurt, and I can't find a way to make it edible. I tried adding fruit, but the strawberries I bought were sour and the bananas don't provide enough flavor to penetrate 5% greek yogurt. What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
I paid a lot of money for some unsweetened greek yogurt, and I can't find a way to make it edible. I tried adding fruit, but the strawberries I bought were sour and the bananas don't provide enough flavor to penetrate 5% greek yogurt. What can I make with this huge, expensive tub of yogurt?
Thank you, Tophat1900! I didn’t think of nuts. That’s a great idea!
I did buy some Stevia to add it and strawberries to the yogurt, but I'm not sure how much Stevia to use. Plus, the liquid Stevia I bought has a super-strong aftertaste. Is that normal? Or was buying off-brand Stevia a bad idea?
I did google for ideas. However, most of them were for savory dishes, and (I didn’t want to admit this “out loud” in my first post) I’m looking for something sweet. I really fruit on the bottom yogurt and was hoping to make a low-carb version.
As for the banana, I'm still new to LCHF and my pantry isn't fully stocked for my new diet. So I'm reticent to throw out my high-carb foods like pasta until I know how to make a varied and delicious LCHF diet. So far, I have about five recipes for home-cooked meals and several few supermarket salads that I like. That’s not enough meals for one week, let alone week after week.
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