The Moosewood Cookbook's Cucumber Yogurt Chilled Soup

12/29/2017

In my opinion, The Moosewood Cookbook has some of the best healthy recipes. The Moosewood Cookbook was originally published in 1974 by members of the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY which was later revised in 1977 by Mollie Katzen. My boss as a research assistant adored the vegetarian recipes especially. 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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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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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.

Eliz Marg

7/7/2021 01:23:52 pm

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

Beth Wright

6/2/2024 07:05:05 pm

You have it backward. Mollie Katzen was a member of the Moosewood Collective, a co-op that operated Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. I know because I went there many times back in the late 70s and early '80s. Mollie left the restaurant after publishing the Moosewood Cookbook and another called The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, and all the subsequent cookbooks from the Moosewood Collective were NOT Mollie's work. She moved somewhere in California and became a star on the local PBS network with a cooking show, and eventually published another cookbook called Vegetable Heaven in 1997. I'm not being negative about Mollie Katzen but you are disrespecting all the other members of the Moosewood Collective by getting the story wrong!

6/2/2024 08:56:22 pm

I submitted a comment earlier and I don't know why it hasn't been published, but I'm going to repeat it. You have the story of Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook and the Moosewood Restaurant backward. The restaurant came first and Mollie Katzen was a member of the co-op which started the restaurant. Only later did she publish the Moosewood Cookbook. It's totally untrue to say that her cookbook sparked the restaurant!

She published another cookbook, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, while still a member of the co-op who ran the restaurant. But eventually she bailed out and every other Moosewood cookbook after that was published by the Moosewood Collective with no participation from Mollie Katzen.

I don't know where she was between leaving Ithaca and Moosewood, but she popped up later in California as the host of a cooking program on PBS, and in 2007 published a cookbook called Vegetable Heaven. That had nothing to do with Moosewood.

I'm not trying to be prickly, only to give credit where credit is due. If you have a copy of the original Moosewood Cookbook, check out the acknowledgments.

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