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Yogurt garlic aioli

Name: Yogurt garlic aioli
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt; 1/4 cup mayonnaise; 3 cloves garlic, grated to a paste; juice of 1/2 lemon; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/2 tsp salt

Not a classical aioli — a real one is egg yolk and oil, and it is close to pure fat. This is the version that goes on everything: Greek yogurt carrying the garlic and lemon, with enough mayonnaise left in to keep the texture honest.

Time: 5 min (5 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 94 kcal
Protein: 2 g

Ingredients

3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt200 g
1/4 cup mayonnaise60 g
3 cloves garlic, grated to a paste9 g
juice of 1/2 lemon20 g
1 tbsp olive oil15 g
1 tsp Dijon mustard8 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g

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Steps

Grate the garlic on a microplane or crush it with the salt until it is a paste. Chopped garlic in a cold sauce is a series of hot surprises.
Whisk the garlic paste into the yogurt, mayonnaise, mustard and lemon juice.
Whisk in the olive oil last, in a thin stream, so it disappears into the sauce rather than sitting on top.
Rest it 20 minutes before serving — raw garlic needs that long to stop being sharp and start being garlicky. Keeps 4 days.

Can I leave the mayonnaise out entirely?

You can, and the score goes up. It also becomes a garlic yogurt sauce — very good, but it stops clinging to a chip. The 60 g here is the smallest amount that still behaves like aioli.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

10% of kcal

65% water

2 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 755 kcal goes into the pot, 315 g of ingredients comes out as ~310 g of food → 243 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 243
Protein: (10%); 6 g
Fat: (82%); 22 g
Carbohydrates: (8%); 5 g
of which sugar: 2 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 549 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.