I had an overflow of yogurt and one of my yogurts turned watery so I decided to strain 2 tubs of yogurt. Well, I forgot how good strained yogurt is so I decided to give myself some yogurt today and mix it with some protein powder to make it more of a protein than a carb.
The interesting thing is I looked up the calories and protein/carb counts.
According to calorieking,
1 cup of plain nonfat yogurt has 137 calories, 18.8g carbs and 14g of protein.
1 cup of strained nonfat yogurt has 120 calories, 9g carbs and 20g of protein.
I am surprised, I thought the strained yogurt would actually have more calories.
you can use cheesecloth but I like using coffee filters. I have a 4 cup strainer, I put a coffee filter in the strainer and put it over a bowl. I let it sit in the fridge for 8 hours or so. It comes out tasting someone like cream cheese. It is also a good base for tzatziki or other Mediterranean yogurt dishes.
I use a coffee filter too: sometimes a paper filter in a pint sized glass, sometimes a gold filter over a pitcher. I've had perfectly good results leaving it to drain for less than an hour. You just need to give it a stir periodically.
We used to do this at home with plain theatowels, works fine just as well. I'm at a loss why the strained kind would have LESS calories, what's dripping out with the water that contains those calories?
BTW just a fun fact, over here (Netherlands) they call this 'Hang-up' it has no other name but it's no mistery what has been done to it
I think it's lower calories because some of the milk sugar (Lactose) drains away with the water. I sometimes mix the "cheese" with Splenda and cinnamon. Yummy!
That doesn't seem right....How could it be fewer calories? It seems as though it would be more concentrated and have higher calories. Hmm, if it is the lactose, I wonder if people who are lactose intolerant would be easier able to handle strained yogurt.
Wow, is that ever good news. I have been reluctant to drain/strain my yougurt because I thought it would increase the calories. I really like the yougurt that way.
Strained yogurt - less carbs? less calories?
