Thickened Citrus Yogurt – An Alternative to Ice Cream

  

For the longest time, we had fruit with ice cream for dessert and called it good.

Then we switched to soy ice cream, then to Yoplait vanilla yogurt, and now it’s thickened yogurt. They’re all great.  Plus, in my book, if you have fruit and dairy in a 3:1 ratio, then the dessert definitely counts as healthy.

I do dress up the yogurt in a fairly regular way, with juice and zest from one orange, 1 tsp. orange flavoring, 1 tsp. vanilla and honey to taste. Maybe next time I’ll try switching to lime juice and zest and try that over pineapple or strawberries.

You might like your yogurt really thick and skip the orange juice, but I like a looser texture.

Thickened Yogurt

Position a piece of cheese cloth or a loosely woven dish cloth with 6 or 7 clothespins over a deepish mixing bowl.

Pour in the yogurt and let it sit overnight in the refrigerator. I have done this even just for one or two hours to remove some of the yogurt liquid if I’ve forgotten to do it the night before. The yogurt does thicken up a bit.

Put the bowl on a large plate or you’ll end up with sticky whey all over the refrigerator shelf, as it seeps up the dishcloth and drips off the edges.