Use as a salad dressing. 2 cloves garlic finely minced.
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Tzatziki. The only difference is that we mostly use red wine vinegar here instead of white but the taste is pretty much the same. My husband s cousin from greece taught me how to make a tzatziki sauce a lot like this recipe but without the dill i make this sauce whenever i fix a pork tenderloin. 1 teaspoon lemon zest plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice.
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 eliminates even more water. At last a proper tzatziki just the way we make this in greece.
Yogurt cucumbers garlic fresh herbs the yogurt is thick and pungent with mashed garlic the cucumbers either finely chopped or grated then salted and allowed to wilt walnuts enrich the balkan version which is also considered a soup as is cacik. And we never use lemon like we ve seen in americanized versions of tzatziki. I use the souvlaki recipe by abby benner to marinade the tenderloin i use fage fat free yogurt which i buy at trader joe s.
1 english cucumber seeded finely grated and drained. But the one non negotiable item is the strained full fat yogurt. Called cacik in turkey tarator in the balkans tzatziki in greece each version of this salad is a variation on a theme.
1 pound 1 pint plain yogurt whole milk or low fat 1 hothouse cucumber unpeeled and seeded. Otherwise known as that yogurt and cucumber sauce you love at greek restaurants but worry about mispronouncing hear the correct pronunciation here tzatziki is made simply with yogurt drained cucumber olive oil fresh herbs usually mint or dill garlic lemon juice and salt. Also lemon juice is preferable to vinegar.
Fry up some zucchini or eggplant slices dredge in flour and fried in olive oil and serve with a dollop of tzatziki on top. It s thick and doesn t need to be strained. A dip for crudites.
Loved your tzatziki anette. 1 cup greek whole milk yogurt. If i have time i often lightly salt the grated cucumber and put in a colander to drain then squeeze out water as per usual.
Tzatziki is a simple greek yogurt sauce that goes well on everything from chicken to beef to pita chips.
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