Sneak Preview: Check out these 21 recipes that use Greek yogurt as one of the ingredients. Some recipes call for whey, a by-product of making Greek yogurt.
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Whether you like to make Greek yogurt at home or prefer to pick it up at the supermarket, chances are good that you find yourself wanting to use it in everything possible. Or maybe you have too much yogurt and want to use it before it goes out of date. Here are some great ideas.
Many of these recipes are appropriate for either regular or Greek yogurt. However, Greek yogurt is thicker, so you may need less regular yogurt. For example, the dressing will be thinner in the Poppy Seed Chicken Salad if you add the same amount of regular yogurt.
Another option: Strain regular yogurt before adding it to the recipe. Grab a coffee filter and set it inside a sieve or colander. Pour regular yogurt into the filter and let it sit for a while. When it looks thicker, you have created Greek yogurt. Either throw away the whey (the liquid drained from the yogurt), use it in a recipe, or read about other possibilities for using yogurt whey.
Recipes that Use Greek Yogurt:
Low-Calorie Salad Dressing Recipe with Balsamic and Yogurt
This is a low-calorie dressing with nonfat Greek yogurt as the base–light on fat, heavy on flavor.
Making Creamy Strawberry Salad Dressing with Greek Yogurt at home is a tasty but healthy way to add flavor, protein, and color to a fresh fruit or lettuce salad.
Easy Chicken Poppy Seed Salad with Cranberries and Greek Yogurt
You will love this chicken salad full of white chicken, celery, almonds, poppy seeds, and dried cranberries. Greek yogurt and mayo hold it together. It’s a great way to recycle leftover rotisserie chicken.
Baked mini-donuts are made with white whole wheat flour or unbleached flour and yogurt for increased protein and flavor, but the light powdered sugar coating will satisfy your sweet tooth.
An easy strawberry-balsamic sauce combines with goat cheese to make a memorable breakfast muffin that is a copycat of the one sold at the Central Market Bakery.
Fantans: A Fun Yeast Roll Made with Yogurt and a Bread Machine
These fantans are made with yogurt and mixed in a bread machine or stand mixer. They are shaped like pull-apart brown-and-serve rolls from the grocery store.
Frosted Strawberry Cake Donuts are flavored with strawberry jello and strawberries, then frosted with a cream cheese frosting. Sprinkle with colored sugar if kids will be eating them.
This cornbread recipe is a butter-crusted cornbread with a moist interior thanks to sour cream, corn, jalapenos, and cheese. My husband declares this is the best cornbread I have ever made.
This Mini Black and White Cookies recipe is smaller than the classic cookie but fresher and tastier than the average store-bought black and white cookie.
Greek Yogurt Meyer Lemon Bars: No Grating Required
These Meyer Lemon Bars with Greek yogurt start with a coconut shortbread base underneath a Meyer lemon layer. Greek yogurt makes it creamy. The recipe calls for using the entire lemon (minus seeds)–no grating or squeezing required.
This recipe for an all-butter pie crust with unflavored yogurt produces an incredibly tasty, flaky, and tender crust that bakes up beautifully, even without a filling.
Peanut Butter Greek Yogurt with chocolate is a quick way to flavor yogurt that is full of satisfying protein. (But who cares about the protein when yogurt tastes this good.)
Light and flaky layers set this flaky biscuit recipe apart from the average biscuit. Use whey drained from yogurt for the liquid or buttermilk if you don’t have yogurt whey. These biscuits are one of the best uses of whey I can think of.
Yogurt, Cucumber, and Dill Sauce for Crazy-Good Salmon
This unforgettable, mild sauce weaves together the velvety richness of mayonnaise, the creamy tang of Greek yogurt, the refreshing crunch of cucumbers, and the herby goodness of fresh dill. Serve with any fish, but salmon is especially memorable.
