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wellington womble

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 10:29 pm Post subject:
Never got round to this - thanks for reminding me. I'll do it this week. Can you cook with yoghurt? Dim memories about not boiling it... or is that cream?

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 10:35 pm Post subject:
Yoghurt can be added at loads of different stages in cooking, from a swirl at the end, to coating the meat at the start, so boiling is not too much of an issue. jema

Gervase

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 10:18 am Post subject:

Yoghurt's great for cooking, but you're right about not boiling it. There's a lovely Indian dish using chicken and large amounts of yoghurt - cut the fowl into smallish pieces and marinade in yoghurt to which you've added at least six crushed cloves of garlic and a handful of chopped mint. Leave it there for at least half a day, then shake the excess off the meat, brown it briskly, add whatever spices take your fancy (usually a whizzed-up mix of coriander seed, cumin, some dried chillies and a little turmeric for colour) and then stir in the rest of the yoghurt and cook on a very, very low heat for at least half an hour.

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 4:41 pm Post subject:
I think I am going to concede the point, this was so damn simple to make and the result is really quite excellent jema

wellington womble

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 5:49 pm Post subject:

Ah, that's the proganda you see. The supermaket can produce it so much more cheaply and better that you can - it's really complicated to make at home - messy and expensive too, you know!

I don't mind people who don't want to make things at home being able to buy them, it's just the impression that we're all to dimwitted and have such full, busy lives that we can't possibly do it ourselves that really gets up my nose!

Congratualtions on your yoghurt, anyway.

jema
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 5:55 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Ah, that's the proganda you see. The supermaket can produce it so much more cheaply and better that you can - it's really complicated to make at home - messy and expensive too, you know!

Well I always used to make it, so I no it ain't hard, but with a busy life it is easy to rationalise, well I only cook with it, I don't eat it as is, so the absolute best quality is not an issue.....

jema

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 5:59 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

so the absolute best quality is not an issue.....

jema

Why not? It's like using the worst wine to cook with.

jema
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 6:04 pm Post subject:
Well I wouldn't use wine I wouldn't drink to cook with, and I wouldn't use yoghurt I wouldn't eat. But I wouldn't use a �5 bottle of wine in cooking either! and it is mostly spicy Indian dishes I do with yoghurt and I similarily feel that the difference in using better yoghurt would be hard to spot. jema Last edited by jema on Tue Nov 23, 04 6:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

tahir

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 6:07 pm Post subject:
Well, I'd say whatever yoghurt you make at home will be much better than anything you can buy, so just keep at it

jema
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 6:55 pm Post subject:

Tahir wrote:

Well, I'd say whatever yoghurt you make at home will be much better than anything you can buy, so just keep at it

I think I probably will continue again, as I keep on saying, I used to make yoghurt all the time, it was not a one off exercise for me.

jema

jema
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 04 7:13 pm Post subject:
Made my third lot yesterday, as I'm on a flat bread makign roll, i use tons. I really never should have stopped, the results seem to be getting better and better and clearly much better than shop bought. jema

tahir

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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 04 7:14 pm Post subject:
Well done

Sarah D

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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 04 12:59 am Post subject:
Nice to see you've come round to our way of thinking.................. Nan bread made with home made yoghurt tastes even better than home made nan with shop bought.

alison
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 04 10:05 pm Post subject:
When we make our yoghurt we add the fruit flavour by freezing small batches of fruit puree in ice cube trays. just drop a cube in. perfect.

jema
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 04 10:31 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

When we make our yoghurt we add the fruit flavour by freezing small batches of fruit puree in ice cube trays. just drop a cube in. perfect.

Nice idea, 4 batches now, but still have not eaten any fruit yoghurt, all strictly savoury use.

jema

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