yoghurt

UK/ˈjɒɡət/

nounA2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,656 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: yoghurts

Yoghurt is milk cultured with bacteria until it thickens and sours. A pot of yoghurt, Greek yoghurt, drinking yoghurt.

Two specific bacteria do the work, and they turn the milk sugar into acid, which is what thickens it and why many people who cannot digest milk manage yoghurt perfectly well. Greek yoghurt is simply strained, which is why it is thicker and higher in protein.

Definitions of yoghurt

1noundrinkMilk cultured with bacteria until it thickens and sours.A2+
“I have yoghurt with honey and fruit for breakfast.”

yoghurt is a food.

Where it comes from

Turkish yogurt names the food, from a verb meaning to knead or curdle.

Proto-Turkic
*yogrut
ota
یوغورت
English, today
yoghurt

Borrowed from ota یوغورت. ota یوغورت. Ultimately from Proto-Turkic yogrut.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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yoghurt in the wild

Yogurt (UK:; US:; also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.
Yogurt
Actimel (known as DanActive in the United States and Canada) is a probiotic yoghurt-type drink produced by the French company Danone.
Actimel
Kaalan is a Keralite dish from South India, made from yoghurt, coconut and either raw plantain (nendra kaaya) or a tuber such as elephant-foot yam (chena).
Kaalan
A well-known instance is the modification of dry yoghurt-marinated tandoor-baked chicken tikka with a creamy sauce to form chicken tikka masala, a British curry.
Mughlai cuisine
Basic ingredients include mutton, chicken, fish, or shrimp, with basmati rice, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, spices, and yoghurt.
Sindhi biryani

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