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Chicken Tikka Masala
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
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Yoghurt recipes
Marinades, raitas, dressings and breakfasts. 208 recipes on the site call for yoghurt.
Yoghurt is in 208 recipes from 24 cuisines, among them 80 dinners, 28 lunches, 27 appetisers and small plates and 21 bakes. The cuisines that use it most here are Indian (67), American (61), Middle Eastern (13) and Greek (11). Of these, 62 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Banana Smoothie (3 min), Apple Pie Smoothie (5 min) and Ayran (5 min). For 100, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 134 easy, 60 medium and 14 hard.
As written, 116 are vegetarian and 92 gluten-free. Another 5 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Yoghurt recipes — all 208 recipes
Baking
One-Bowl Banana Bread
One bowl, one whisk, and the darkest bananas you can find. Browning the butter first adds a nutty depth that turns…
Dinner
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
Dinner
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
Dinner
Hyderabadi Biryani
Marinated raw lamb layered under half-cooked rice and sealed with dough, so the meat and rice cook together in…
Dinner
Chicken Shawarma
All the flavour of a shawarma spit from an oven tray: thighs marinated in warm spices and yogurt, roasted hard, then…
Dinner
Chicken Korma
The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…
Bread
Garlic Butter Naan
Blistered, chewy naan cooked in a screaming-hot cast-iron pan and brushed with garlic butter. Yogurt in the dough is…
Appetizers
Paneer Tikka
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
Healthy
Overnight Oats
Oats, milk, yogurt and chia soaked overnight into something thick and creamy, ready to eat straight from the jar…
Dinner
Tandoori Chicken
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
Healthy
Spiced Red Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked down with cumin and turmeric until they collapse entirely into a thick, golden soup, finished…
Drinks
Mango Lassi
Ripe mango blended with thick yogurt, a little cardamom and just enough ice to chill without watering it down. Three…
Condiment
Tzatziki
Thick strained yogurt, grated cucumber squeezed dry, garlic, dill and good olive oil. Made properly it is dense…
Lunch
Chole Bhature
Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…
Dinner
Shish Taouk
Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…
Desserts
Eton Mess
Crushed meringue, whipped cream and macerated strawberries folded together fifteen minutes before serving. Reputedly…
Side dish
Tahdig
The golden crust at the bottom of the rice pot, made deliberately: parboiled basmati steamed over a layer of yoghurt…
Dinner
İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
Desserts
Jalebi
Fermented batter piped in spirals into hot ghee and dunked straight into warm saffron syrup, so the crisp coils fill…
Appetizers
Labneh with Za'atar
Yoghurt strained through cloth for a day until it is thick enough to hold a spoon upright, spread on a plate, pooled…
Breakfast
Greek Yoghurt with Honey and Walnuts
Thick strained yoghurt with thyme honey poured over and toasted walnuts on top. Three ingredients, and the quality…
Dinner
Kashmiri Rogan Josh
The Kashmiri classic: lamb braised in a brick-red gravy coloured by Kashmiri chillies and perfumed with fennel…
Dinner
Keema Matar
Minced lamb browned hard and simmered with peas in a tight, dry masala. A weeknight dish across North India and…
Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
Desserts
Basbousa
A semolina cake soaked in syrup and cut into diamonds with an almond pressed into each. Found from Egypt to Turkey…
Dinner
Musakhan
Palestinian roast chicken on flatbread soaked in olive oil, with a great quantity of sumac-stained onions and…
Lunch
Ash Reshteh
A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.
Healthy
Baked Salmon and Quinoa Bowl
Salmon roasted just to the point of flaking, over quinoa with roasted broccoli and a dill-yoghurt sauce — a bowl…
Breakfast
Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana.
Dinner
Yoghurt-Marinated Chicken Skewers
Chicken thigh marinated in yoghurt, lemon and oregano, then grilled hard until the edges char. The yoghurt does the…
Drinks
Ayran
Yoghurt, cold water and salt, whisked until foaming — the Turkish drink that goes with everything grilled, and the…
Lunch
Egg Salad Sandwich
Eggs boiled to a set-but-not-chalky yolk, half of them chopped and half mashed for texture, with mustard and chives…
Breakfast
Bircher Muesli
Oats soaked overnight in apple juice and yoghurt, with grated apple folded through in the morning. The original…
Quick Meals
Grilled Halloumi Wrap
Halloumi griddled until it squeaks and blisters, wrapped with a lemony slaw and a garlic yoghurt. Twenty minutes…
Dinner
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…
Dinner
Shish Barak
Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is a…
Dinner
Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
Desserts
Layali Lubnan
Lebanese nights: a semolina layer, a thick cream layer, syrup and nuts. Assembled in a dish and cut into squares…
Lunch
Kishk Masri
A thick soup of yogurt and flour cooked out slowly and poured over fried bread and onions. Sour, savoury and…
Baking
Gâteau au Yaourt
The cake every French child learns first, measured in the empty yogurt pot rather than on scales. Plain, reliable…
Appetizers
Chicken 65
Small pieces of chicken in a red, curry-leaf-scented coating, fried hard and tossed with yoghurt and chilli. A…
Appetizers
Fish Tikka
Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…
Dinner
Vegetable Biryani
Vegetables and part-cooked rice layered with saffron milk and fried onion, then sealed and steamed. The dum method…
Lunch
Chicken Salad
Poached or leftover chicken with grapes, celery and toasted pecans in a light mayonnaise dressing. Fifteen minutes…
Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
Desserts
Shrikhand
Yoghurt hung until it is thick as cream cheese, then beaten with sugar, saffron and cardamom. Fifteen minutes of…
Dinner
Mansaf
Lamb cooked in fermented yoghurt, spread over rice and flatbread with toasted nuts. Jordan's national dish, and a…
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