I like mixing plain yogurt and mayo when making potato salad

[eleny]

Using plain, fat free Greek yogurt elevates the whole thing to a fabu state of flavor.

[MajorChode]

1. You've found one of the excellent uses for yogurt

There are many others, too. The tartness and texture that yogurt brings to recipes can make for some very tasty results.

[Warpy]

2. I've always used a mixture of sour cream and mayo

for both slaw and potato salad. Buttermilk can be used in the former if you like the dressing looser.

Yogurt will work lending fewer calories, but I'm not nuts about the bite it gives to the salad. I find I need to balance it with sweetness, either Splenda or just sugar.

[hippywife]

3. A good Greek style yogurt

really doesn't have a tart bite to it. We use ours in exchange for sour cream, which I haven't had to buy in years.

[Warpy]

6. By the time it finally makes its way to New Mexico

it's incredibly puckery stuff. It really does need to be tamed down a bit with sweetener.

I did a yogurt chicken breast concoction last week with it that was lovely but overly acidic. I just wish I'd taken my own advice at the outset, it would have been perfect.

[eleny]

4. Chobani brand Greek yogurt tastes a lot like sour cream

I'm also a fan of the sour cream/mayo mix. So now that I've discovered the fat free Greek yogurt I've made the switch. But you'd have to try it yourself to see how your taste buds react.

I love sour cream in general but am now using the Chobani on baked potatoes, too, to avoid the fat.

[Monique1]

5. Anyone here use yogurt as a marinade for chicken?

grill it or oven roast?

[eleny]

9. I once marinated some chicken using yogurt

It was an Indian recipe that also called for garam marsala spice blend. But I can't remember how it was cooked. I probably oven roasted it and then finished it up with a little broiling to brown the skin some more.

[hippywife]

7. When I don't feel like making yogurt

I pick up the plain full fat variety of this stuff. It's pretty good and tastes as close to sour cream as anything I've tried yet, except my own which is not tart at all, either.

http://www.greekgodsyogurt.com/html/yplain.php

[eleny]

8. I just got a tub of that brand the other day!

It's the brand that comes in a larger container so I tried it in the latest batch of potato salad.

For some unexplainable reason Greek yogurt manages to keep it's smooth flavor by the time it gets to Colorado.

[hippywife]

10. Oklahoma, too.

;)