Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tzatziki. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tzatziki, cacık or tarator is a dip, soup, or sauce found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. It is made of salted strained yogurt or diluted yogurt mixed with cucumbers, garlic, salt. Watch how to make Greek tzatziki sauce in this short recipe video.
Tzatziki is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Tzatziki is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tzatziki using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tzatziki:
- Prepare 125 g Greek yoghurt
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves
- Take Half a cucumber
- Prepare Handful fresh mint
- Make ready Juice from half a lemon
- Get Generous splash of extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare Salt and pepper
To be truly superb, tzatziki MUST be made with strained, whole mild yogurt from Greece, otherwise the result will be runny as many users have noted. This tzatziki sauce tied everything together. I pretty much drowned my chicken and smothered everything on my plate with it. I then proceeded to down everything way to fast because it all tasted so.
Instructions to make Tzatziki:
- Peel the cucumber
- Use a spoon to de-seed the cucumber halves
- Grate the cucumber into a sieve
- Add a teaspoon of salt to the cucumber and mix well -this will drain excess water from the cucumber. Leave to stand over a bowl while you make the dip
- Crush 3 garlic cloves
- Chop a handful of fresh mint leaves
- Add the yoghurt to a bowl along with the garlic and mint
- Add the lemon juice and olive oil
- By now the cucumber is well drained and can be added to mixture. Season with pepper and mix well
- Serve with fresh bread
This Greek tzatziki recipe is easy to make, and SO fresh and delicious! Feel free to serve this as a tzatziki sauce on gyros or sandwiches, or use it as a tzatziki dip with pita and your favorite veggies. Tzatziki is a creamy, yogurt-based sauce made from thick yogurt, grated cucumber, fresh dill, zesty lemon juice, and minced garlic. You may be wondering, "What is Tzatziki sauce?" One of the first things we made in that (six-hour + exhausting + amazing) class was this Tzatziki sauce! Tzatziki is a Greek cucumber-yogurt sauce which can be served as an appetizer, dip, and in or on various dishes.
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