If you are looking for a healthier cooking substitute to oil, then yogurt could very well be the replacement ingredient. If you want to know more on How To Replace Oil With Yogurt, then here are few tips.

• Use yogurt to reduce or replace high-fat ingredients, such as butter and oil in baking. Yogurt maintains the creamy taste in baked desserts and makes the otherwise fat laden desserts healthy and gives them body and flavor.
• While baking chocolate chip cookies or brownies, you could replace oil, butter or other fat ingredients with non-fat yogurt. If the recipe requires 2 cups of oil, then use ½ a cup of yogurt and 1 cup oil to make the baked good. Similarly if 1 cup butter is required then, use 1/2 cup butter and 3/8 cup (3/4 of 1/2 cup) non-fat yogurt.
• If you want to replace oil completely with yogurt, then be prepared to have a moister final product. You could reduce water and other liquids slightly to counter this problem.
• Other than oil, you could also replace yogurt for sour cream. If the recipe calls for a small amount of heavy cream (say one tablespoon), then yogurt could be used instead.
• Replace oil with yogurt when baking breads and muffins. This substitution significantly reduces the calories and fat grams in the recipe.
• Applesauce, bananas, pumpkin and prunes are also commonly used fat replacements in recipes and can be used in conjunction with yogurt to replace oil.
• Drain the liquid from the top of the yogurt before adding it to your recipes. This will ensure that you do not add too much liquid to your baked produces. Dropping the yogurt into a strainer prior to adding it to your recipes can help.

While a little fat in your diet is good, too much saturated fat may lead to health problems. If you are looking for ways to cut down on fat in your diet, consider replacing oil with yogurt in your baking.

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