Pon una cucharada de miel en el yogur natural.

Pon is the informal singular command form of the verb poner (to put).

So:

• pones = you put / you are putting
• pone = he/she puts or formal you put
• pon = put! when speaking to one person informally

This sentence is giving an instruction, like in a recipe or to a friend:

• Pon una cucharada de miel... = Put a spoonful of honey...

If you wanted the formal command, you would say:

• Ponga una cucharada de miel...

If you wanted the command for more than one person in Spain:

• Poned una cucharada de miel...

No. It is one of the common irregular affirmative tú commands in Spanish.

The infinitive is poner, but the command is:

• poner → pon

Some other common irregular tú commands are:

• hacer → haz
• decir → di
• venir → ven
• salir → sal
• tener → ten
• ir → ve
• ser → sé

So pon is something you should learn as a set form.

Una cucharada means a spoonful or often a tablespoon, depending on context.

It comes from cuchara (spoon), and cucharada usually means:

• the amount that fits in a spoon
• in cooking, often a tablespoon

In recipes, you may also see:

• una cucharadita = a teaspoon
• una cucharada sopera = a tablespoon
• una cucharadita de té = a teaspoon

So here una cucharada de miel means a spoonful / tablespoon of honey.

In Spanish, when you give a quantity of something, you normally use:

quantity expression + de + noun

So:

• una cucharada de miel
• un vaso de agua
• un kilo de manzanas
• un poco de azúcar

The de links the measure to the substance.

So una cucharada de miel literally works like a spoonful of honey.

After expressions of quantity like una cucharada de, Spanish usually does not use the article unless you are talking about a very specific, already identified thing.

So normally:

• una cucharada de miel
• un vaso de leche
• un poco de pan

You would only use an article if you were referring to a specific honey already mentioned, for example:

• Pon una cucharada de la miel que compramos ayer. = Put in a spoonful of the honey we bought yesterday.

In your sentence, miel is being used in a general sense, so de miel is the natural choice.

En is very natural here because the idea is putting something into / in the yogurt.

• Pon una cucharada de miel en el yogur natural.

That focuses on where the honey goes: in the yogurt.

You may also hear al yogur natural in some contexts, especially with verbs like añadir:

• Añade una cucharada de miel al yogur natural.

That structure is also correct and feels like add ... to the yogurt.

So:

• poner ... en ... = put ... in ...
• añadir ... a ... = add ... to ...

Both ideas are possible, but with pon, en is especially natural.

Yes, yogur is normally masculine in standard Spanish:

• el yogur
• un yogur

So:

• en el yogur natural

You may also see the spelling yogurt. Both yogur and yogurt are used, though yogur is very common in Spain.

Examples:

• un yogur natural
• un yogur de fresa

In this context, yogur natural usually means plain yogurt.

So it does not mainly mean natural in the broad English sense of not artificial. In food packaging and recipes in Spain, natural often means:

• plain
• unflavoured
• not fruit-flavoured

So:

• yogur natural = plain yogurt
• yogur de fresa = strawberry yogurt

This is a very common food label word in Spanish.

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• yogur natural
• miel orgánica
• pan integral

That is the normal pattern.

Sometimes Spanish adjectives can go before the noun, but that often changes the tone or meaning. In this sentence, natural after the noun is the standard, neutral order.

Miel is normally feminine:

• la miel
• una miel muy buena

In your sentence, you do not see the article because it appears after de in a quantity expression:

• una cucharada de miel

But if you used the noun on its own, you would say:

• La miel es dulce.

In Spain, yogur is commonly pronounced approximately like:

• yo-GUR

The stress is on the last syllable:

• yoGUR

A rough English approximation is yo-GOOR, but with a Spanish r at the end.

Also:

• y here sounds like the Spanish consonant sound in yo
• g stays hard because it comes before u

Yes, absolutely. That is a very natural alternative, especially in recipe language.

Compare:

• Pon una cucharada de miel en el yogur natural.
• Añade una cucharada de miel al yogur natural.

Both are correct.

The difference is mostly stylistic:

• pon = put
• añade = add

In recipes, añadir is extremely common, but poner is also very normal and easy to understand.

You would say:

• No pongas una cucharada de miel en el yogur natural.

Notice that the negative tú command is pongas, not pon.

So:

• affirmative: Pon...
• negative: No pongas...

This happens because negative commands use the present subjunctive form.

No, that would sound incomplete in normal Spanish.

You need the article here:

• Pon una cucharada de miel...

Because you are specifying one spoonful / a spoonful.

Spanish normally needs that determiner in this kind of expression. Very often, dropping it would sound unnatural or ungrammatical.

It works in both.

You could see it:

• in a recipe
• in a diet tip
• in spoken advice
• in everyday conversation

For example:

• Si está muy ácido, pon una cucharada de miel en el yogur natural.

So it is a completely natural sentence, not limited to formal cooking instructions.