Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Herb yogurt eggs
Sauce is yogurt and herbs, not mayo.
The sheet · 1 plate · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Sauce is yogurt and herbs, not mayo.
What it needs
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- eggs
- yogurt
- parsley
- lemon
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dill, bread.
Method
- Yogurt spread on the plate first, seasoned with salt and lemon and left to come up from fridge cold. Cold yogurt under hot eggs is unpleasant.
- Herbs chopped fine and stirred through the yogurt, not scattered on top, so every bite gets them.
- Eggs soft — poached or a loose scramble — laid onto the yogurt.
- Olive oil poured over the top at the end, generously. It is what carries the herbs and it makes the plate look finished.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- yogurt
- Acid and creaminess together, which is why it works as a sauce with no cooking at all.
- parsley
- Not a garnish, a green note.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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