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Surprising Ways to Cook with Greek Yogurt

This wonder ingredient goes way beyond breakfast, to cooling off spicy dishes, keeping burgers juicy and even helping you make a last-minute cake.
Curried Red Lentil and Swiss Chard Soup
Photo: John Kernick
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A Cool Counterpoint to Spicy Soup
We're totally stealing this recipe's trick for taming the heat on a hot soup: You thin plain Greek yogurt with water (use three parts yogurt and one part water), and then drizzle it over whatever you're eating. In this case, it's a curried (and cayenne-d) Indian lentil and chickpea stew, but the technique would work great with chili, too.

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Published 12/20/2013
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