Quick help needed please-can I replace cream with yogurt?

[wibblyjelly]

Making a chicken casserole type dish, and it needs 200 ml of cream. I've only just realised, and can't go back out again. Would yogurt be an OK replacement? Thanks!

I am no expert but I think not. The yogurt will probably split if heated too much or two quickly. You cold replace the cream with wine or / and chicken stock, and you could add a couple of spoonful of plain yogurt right at the end when the dish is about to be served.

Not in this instance no it wouldn't work.

Ask a neighbour?

Damn OK, will maybe use a chicken stock instead, so it will be less creamy. Never mind, at least it will have less calories in it

Order a pizza tonight hen go get some cream tomorrow?

Does it really need cream? Could you thicken it with arrowroot or cornflour instead? Yoghurt doesn't do well in heat, and it doesn'st have the thickening qualities required here.

I do have cornflour, so will thicken with that instead-thanks all.

Lots of curry recipes involve cooking with yoghurt and I've never had a problem with it doing anything odd. You can simmer a curry with a yoghurt-based sauce for hours. It won't be thick and gloopy, though, and will have a bit more bite in the flavour than a cream sauce would.

Please let us know what you do and how it turns out!

Personally I would add the yoghurt and take the risk of it splitting - it will still taste the same.
Alternatively, just put a pot of yoghurt on the table, to add a dollop, or not, as you wish!

It worked, even if I did pick up the vanilla yogurt and added that instead! It's a Mexican mix though, so it worked quite well