Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tzatziki 🇬🇷. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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, olive oil, sometimes with vinegar or lemon juice, and herbs such as dill, mint, parsley and thyme. Watch how to make Greek tzatziki sauce in this short recipe video.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tzatziki 🇬🇷 using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tzatziki 🇬🇷:
- Take 500 g Greek Yoghurt
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic- grated or minced
- Prepare 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- Prepare 1 cucumber
- Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice or white vinegar
- Get 3 tbsp freshly chopped mint
- Make ready Pinch salt
Tzatziki sauce is a Greek cucumber yogurt dip. It's a healthy sauce you can serve with chicken, grilled veggies, pita chips, gyros and as a raw veggie dip. From Greek τζατζίκι (tzatzíki), from Turkish cacık. Doublet of cacik. (UK) IPA(key): /tsæˈtsɪ.kɪ/, /zæˈtsɪ.kɪ/, /sæˈtsɪ.kɪ/. (US) IPA(key): /tsɑˈtsi.ki/. tzatziki (usually uncountable, plural tzatzikis).
Steps to make Tzatziki 🇬🇷:
- Crush the garlic. Mix with the oil and a pinch of salt, and set aside.
- Grate the cucumber coarsely with a hand grater. Place into a colander, salt lightly and leave to drain for 30 minutes.
- Stir the garlic & olive oil, lemon juice and vinegar into the yoghurt. Squeeze the cucumber very well and add it in. Add the chopped mint and mix gently so that everything is well incorporated.
- Taste and adjust quantities of salt & lemon juice accordingly. Ideally, allow the tzatziki to sit for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
- Just before serving, drizzle with extra olive oil and decorate with a few olives. Serve with greek style pita bread and greek salad 🥗
An appetizer made from yoghurt, cucumber, garlic, olive oil and dill or mint. Τζατζίκι από τον Άκη Πετρετζίκη. Το παραδοσιακό ορεκτικό που μπορείτε να συνοδεύσετε με γύρο χοιρινό ή με το κρέας που επιθυμείτε και με πίτες από σουβλάκι!!!
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