Greek Yogurt Meets Molasses
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Sometimes you happen upon perfect combinations that just call out to the Southern tastebuds. Watermelon and Salt, Bacon and biscuits, Tea and sugar 🙂
Today I couldn’t resist sharing my new favorite combination. I’ve been eating this at least once a day for about a month now, especially when I was working on my book. And as soon as I’m done writing this, I’m going to fix myself another one because it is just that good. Sometimes this is breakfast, sometimes it’s lunch, sometimes it’s an afternoon snack. It’s always good though and if you are even remotely a yogurt or molasses person, you’ve got to try this.
If you’re not currently a yogurt person but love molasses (or honey), this may change your outlook!
Meet Greek Yogurt.
Not just any yogurt, greek yogurt is thicker and has more protein than regular yogurt. I don’t know a soul at Dannon and I’m not being paid or anything to blog about this particular brand (but hey, if anyone decides they want to pay me, my kids grow out of their clothes pretty fast…) but this is my favorite one to get. I get the individual cups most of the time because I can grab it and go if need be.
It is important to get plain. Not vanilla, but plain. That way we don’t have all of the added sugar and we can add our own. And believe me, some yogurt out there really racks up the sugar grams!
These little cups cost about a dollar each and I buy five or six a week to keep in the fridge.
You can also use this in place of sour cream in recipes if you like.
To make it like I do, add in one or two packages of Splenda.
I usually just add one but when I’m not feeling as sweet as I should be, an extra packet might help 🙂
You know you can use sugar if you want to, of course, but I’m saving my sweet calories for the grand finale!
Oh, and by the way, this little cup has 15 grams of protein and 0 fat.
and now it has two packets of splenda.. ~grins~
Stir that up really good.
Drizzle top with about one tablespoon of molasses.
OH how I love molasses. Deep, dark, sweet and bitter molasses.
Doesn’t that look good? Like a molasses sundae 🙂
If you don’t love molasses, this is also divine with a good drizzling of honey.
You CAN buy greek yogurt with honey on the bottom but that is just a big old mess. The honey is watered down and weak so just get plain (not vanilla) and make it yourself for the real deal.
Me. Happy.
Do you have favorite quick fix snack right now?
Tell me about it in the comments below!
“Good Mom’s have sticky floors, dirty ovens, and happy kids.”
~Submitted by Jayme.
I have been doing something similar for breakfast. I use plain Dannon yogert, honey and homemade garnola (King Arthurs Crunchy Granola recipe). It is soooo good. You are right about the sugar in yogert. Just take a minute and look on the backs of the cartons…you may be surprised.
Very nice!
Can’t wait to try this, I also like low-fat cottage cheese with sliced up strawberries/splenda, or almost any kind of fruit, it often my late night snack, I am diabetic, so this extra bit of protein snack gets me through the night. Also like molasses, honey or agave nectar mixed with peanut butter on wheat bread as a late night snack…teh yogurt and molasses sounds wonderful, I’ll let you know if I don’t like it!
My husband loves molasses, so I think I’ll give him some of this. We usually mix coconut oil, honey, and cinnamon until well blended, then add the yogurt (Stonyfield Plain) and mix again. It hardens the coconut oil as you stir and leaves flecks and chunks of the coconut oil, honey, and cinnamon taste throughout the yogurt. So yummy! Sometimes I grind flax seeds and add to the honey mix before adding it to the yogurt. The coconut oil, honey, and cinnamon mix is also very good on biscuits.
I think I may try that this evening! One of my favorite quick snacks (and has been since I was quite young) is ritz crackers with a bit of cream cheese topped with a pickle. I remember making them for my husband one day and he turned his nose up at them… that is until he relented and had one. Now he is requesting them on a weekly basis!
I might have to try this. I eat absolutely plain yogurt every morning with breakfast, except I prefer ‘CHOBANI’ greek yogurt. I have had both but I like the ‘Chobani” better. I would never have thought of the molasses, very interesting !
Oh, this is got to be um,um, good! I used to waitress at a local country restaurant, and we had a customer who told us about eating biscuits with sour cream slathered in the middle, then pour good ole country syrup (molasses) all over the top. They are to die for, and will always remind me of those great people.