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How To Make Tzatziki

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How To Make Tzatziki
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Tzatziki Recipe. A refreshing and versatile Greek condiment made with yoghurt and cucumber. A great combination with tortilla chips. Relish our Tzatziki recipe. Enlarge Tzatziki Recipe. A refreshing and versatile Greek condiment made with yoghurt and cucumber. A great combination with tortilla chips. Relish our Tzatziki recipe.
Serves:
2
Preparation Time:
1 hour 45 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 45 minutes

Step 1: You will need

  • 1 cucumber, peeled and finely chopped
  • 250 ml yoghurt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • ½ tbsp dill, chopped, or oregano
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 2 dill sprigs for garnish
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 3 bowls
  • 2 sieves
  • 1 spoon
  • cling film

Step 2: Strain the yoghurt

Place a sieve over a large bowl. Pour in the yoghurt and leave for half an hour to drain the liquid.

Step 3: Strain the cucumber

Place a sieve over another bowl, add the cucumber and salt. The salt draws out the water in the cucumber. Stir a little and leave for half an hour.

Step 4: Make the tzatzki

After half an hour, the water should have drained from both ingredients.

Spoon the cucumber into a bowl. Then add the yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, dill, olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix together until it is well combined.

Finally, cover with cling film and chill for one hour before serving.

Step 5: Serve

Spoon the tzatziki into a serving bowl and garnish with a sprig of dill or a sprinkle of chopped mint.

Tzatziki is very versatile and can be served as an accompaniment to dishes such as lamb kebabs or grilled fish and vegetables, spread on squares of pita bread as a snack, or served as a dip with crudités (batons of raw carrot, celery, spring onion etc.).
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  1. kittyn82

    this is nothing like the greek recipe for tzatziki...i dont know where they found it!!

  2. accalarentina

    Its look like cacik that one of the most famous turkish food but we dont use lemon,dill,paper

  3. ivyliac

    Actually, this is not the way we make it in Greece. In Greece we use strained yoghurt, which is thicker and creamier, grated cucumber which is squeezed to remove all the water, olive oil, NO lemon juice, NO dill, NO pepper, NO oregano. I have no doubt however that this yoghurt sauce is still delicious.

  4. Bastit

    looks yummmy!! :D

  5. melady

    i don' think u need all of these.. just cucumber, salt, garlic, yogurt, olive oil and vinegar..(not lemon juice..) [i'm Greek..]

  6. helenCy

    in cyprus we call this faboulous dip ttalattouri! as much as it sounds funny, the name i mean, it's an old favourite and a must have on sunday tables. one of the cheapest, most nourishing dishes in good old traditional cuisine...

  7. snowdish

    A good combination of original Greek Tzatziki and Turkish Cacik :)) Let's say it Aegean Tzatziki :) Chopped cucumber and dill are a must for Turkish Cacik.

  9. mathousalix

    why does everyone in here persist with the "right way" of making a recipe??i'm greek but i don't believe there's only one way of making this.people make it differently in different parts of greece,there is not just 1 recipe of tzatziki that is the correct,so you can find the right way by trying recipes,adding or removing ingredients and finding out what you like..thanks for the recipe by the way!!

  10. Anonymous

    this isnt good - yr supposed to salt the cucumber after youve seeded and peeled but before you finely chop - then WASH the salt off them - then finely chop. Also mint is most oftenly used with dill being a lesser presence in the taste.