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The Moosewood Cookbook's Cucumber Yogurt Chilled Soup

12/29/2017

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In my opinion, Mollie Katzen created one of the best healthy cookbooks. As a result of her book, a Moosewood restaurant opened in Ithaca, New York. My boss as a research assistant was obsessed with this restaurant and the abundant number of vegetarian recipes. Curious, I decided to make one. The recipe I prepared was the cucumber yogurt chilled soup. Slight modifications were made in the process.

Here is how I prepared it with my revisions:

1.  Combine these ingredients:
-  4 c minced cucumbers (You can also grade these if you wish to save time.)
-  2 c nonfat yogurt (This yogurt can have fat content if you wish but I enjoyed using nonfat plain chobani greek yogurt. It is also lower in calorie this way.)
- 2 c water
- 5 garlic cloves (The recipe originally said 4 cloves, but I thought an additional one was needed.)
-1 tablespoon honey 
- 3/4 tsp salt
 -1 tsp dried dill (or one tbsp if fresh)

2. ~refrigerate after stirring together~

3. Top with fresh herbs. The picture shown was from when I used fresh basil. The version with fresh basil was my personal favorite although I also tried preparing it with fresh cilantro. 


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11/5/2018 05:35:50 pm

My grandmother was an incredible cook. When I was a young boy, my grandmother would always make this amazing soup. Whenever I was sick, she would make me the same soup. I was so dazzled and in love with soup, so I asked her how she does it. She said the incredible secret ingredient to her amazing soup is some yogurt. At first I did not believe her, but after reading your blog, I have realized that she was telling the truth.

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Eliz Marg
7/7/2021 01:23:52 pm

How many servings is this? Did I miss that info?

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    Ava is a Registered Dietitian with a BS in Nutritional Science from Penn State University. She completed her postgraduate dietetic internship at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center where she had a critical care concentration. She started her RD career working at a level one trauma center providing Medical Nutrition Therapy to patients in the Greater New York City area. She now resides in South Florida as her hospital's full time outpatient dietitian, overseeing outpatient nutrition for  cardiometabolic, bariatric, and hospital medical nutrition therapy.

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