Simple Way to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Tzatziki

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tzatziki. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tzatziki, cacık (Turkish pronunciation: [dʒaˈdʒɯk]), or tarator is a dip, soup, or sauce found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. Watch how to make Greek tzatziki sauce in this short recipe video. It's so easy to make with simple ingredients, including Greek yogurt, cucumber, fresh herbs, olive oil, lemon and garlic. This is the best homemade tzatziki recipe!

Tzatziki is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tzatziki is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tzatziki using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tzatziki:

1. Make ready 125 g Greek yoghurt
2. Prepare 3 garlic cloves
3. Take Half a cucumber
4. Get Handful fresh mint
5. Take Juice from half a lemon
6. Prepare Generous splash of extra virgin olive oil
7. Take 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.

Steps to make Tzatziki:

1. Peel the cucumber
2. Use a spoon to de-seed the cucumber halves
3. Grate the cucumber into a sieve
4. 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
5. Crush 3 garlic cloves
6. Chop a handful of fresh mint leaves
7. Add the yoghurt to a bowl along with the garlic and mint
8. Add the lemon juice and olive oil
9. By now the cucumber is well drained and can be added to mixture. Season with pepper and mix well
10. Serve with fresh bread

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. 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 salted yogurt and cucumber dip that's made of strained yogurt, shredded cucumber, olive oil, garlic Authentic Greek tzatziki is most often made with sheep or goat yogurt, but my tzatziki. Tzatziki Sauce is a versatile condiment that will make all of your Mediterranean recipes better!

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