Pasta with Turkish Yogurt Sauce
- Ready In:
- 8hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
1/2 cup yogurt cheese
- Serves:
- 2-3
ingredients
-
Yogurt Cheese Labaneh
- 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
- 1⁄2 clove garlic, optional
-
Pasta
- 1⁄2 lb angel hair pasta
- 1⁄2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- 1⁄4 teaspoon sweet paprika
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
directions
- Yogurt Cheese (Labaneh): Line a strainer with 2 layers of cheesecloth; place the strainer over a bowl and pour the yogurt into the strainer; set aside at room temperature for at least 8 hours or until very, very thick.
- If using the garlic, push it through a garlic press and stir into the thickened labaneh.
- Refrigerate.
- Pasta: Make sure labaneh is at room temperature; boil the pasta in salted water until al dente; drain and return to the pot, stirring until all liquid has evaporated.
- Add the paprika to the melted butter; toss the butter mixture and yogurt cheese with the pasta; season with salt and pepper.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.