Basic Cooked Yogurt Sauce
From jimrug1 16 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 1
This sauce is good over stuffed or steamed vegetables. Or as a traditional base sauce for Stuffed Kibbeh Balls or dumplings If you have ever tried to add Cow's Milk Yogurt to a hot dish, you know what happens. To stabilize it for cooking, add cornstarch and/or egg whites. Read more You can add the egg yolk also but it will change the color. My grandmother (and all of her Lebanese friends) claimed that you can only stir in one direction and never to cover the pan. I must admit, every time I switch directions when stiring, it always breaks on me. It is not an easy sauce to get right. Here is a basic recipe that I use. Once it is stable. you can flavor it a number of ways. I would love to hear what other's think. See less
Ingredients
- 1 Tbls corn Starch shopping list
- 1 Qt yogurt shopping list
- 1 Tsp salt shopping list
- I egg white or whole egg shopping list
- 1 clove garlic crushed (Optional) shopping list
- 1 Tbls Fresh lemon juice (Optional) shopping list
- white pepper to taste (Optional) shopping list
How to make it
- In a small cup, dissolve cornstarch in 2 tbls Yogurt. Wisk into remaining Yogurt. In a heavy pan, begin to heat Yogurt mixture over low heat.
- Lightly beat egg or egg white and gently wisk (remember one direction ...;-) into the sauce.
- Bring sauce to a simmer Stirring constantly (In one direction) as it thickens up. Cook 5 - 10 minutes.
- If using garlic, add with salt to the sauce. Taste for acidity, add lemon juice and pepper if you think the sauce needs it.**
- Cook sauce 2 - 3 minutes more. The sauce is now ready to use.
- **Note: The addition of Garlic and or Lemon would be influenced by how much garlic or lemon were used in the recipes calling for a cooked Yogurt sauce.
The Rating
Reviewed by 3 people-
Thank you so much, Jim. I love the thought of having a basic sauce to build on like this and love your tip about stirring properly - my goodness, it does make sense. I love this...and now you've brought up Stuffed Kibbeh Balls...well, I know exactl...more
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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Jim, I like the sound of this sauce. I really like that lemony taste too. I was wondering if this would work with low fat yogurt as well?
grandmommy
in Nashville loved it
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This wonderful sauce would great with stuffed kibbeh balls is right, love the lemon in mine garlic too.
Nice one Jim thank you.
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