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Greek Tzatziki Recipe

Written by Published on Updated on September 28, 2023 in Appetizers, Dips, Mediterranean cuisine

This Greek Tzatziki Recipe is a well-known appetizer especially to those who know of Greek cuisine and love garlic.  It is made with freshly grated cucumber, garlic, greek yogurt, olive oil, and my absolutely favorite herb Dill.   The traditional Greek Tzatziki recipe does not contain dill, but as the years go by you want to tweak it with one more ingredient.  I chose dill because well, we all love this herb.

If you could just see how I prepare this Greek Tzatziki Recipe,  you would on the floor laughing.  I basically hold my breath so that I don’t smell the garlic!!  The dill definitely helps bring down the intense smell of the garlic once it’s combined.

I am going to honest, many many moons ago I used to eat Tzatziki.  But manyyyyy manyyyyy moons ago my husband and I went out with friends to a Greek Souvlaki place in our neighborhood, in Greece.  Never really liked garlic but I would just add a dash of it to my souvlaki.

Anyway, we gave our order and all the delicious treats arrived about 30 minutes later.   I had ordered Chicken Kalamaki (Chicken Skewer) with a side order of tzatziki. It also came with french fries and a small greek salad. I remember this because that was the night I stopped eating Tzatziki altogether.

To make a long story short, the Tzatziki had a strange smell more of a funky smell.  I mentioned it but everyone said I was being “picky”.  Well, guess!! that night everyone got food poisoning except for me.  I was right!!   Hmm, Picky eater!! shhh don’t tell anyone but I am a picky eater. 🙂

So, for those of you who love garlic give this recipe a try.

Have a good one everyone!!!

Happy Cooking all!!

 

tzatziki dip, yogurt, olive oil

Greek Tzatziki Recipe

foodzesty
A greek appetizer dip made with freshly grated cucumbers, greek yogurt, and garlic.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Course Appetizer, Dip, Homemade
Cuisine Greek, Mediterranean
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Greek yogurt greek whole milk yogurt
  • 1 cucumber grated
  • 3 garlic cloves minced
  • ½ cup dill
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 1 ½ tbsp vinegar red
  • salt (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Wash and use a grater to grate the cucumber
    grated cucumber, grater
  • In a separate bowl add-in olive oil.
    olive oil
  • Add vinegar, stir.
    balsamic vinegar
  • Add grated cucumber, dill, garlic into a blender or food processor and blend on high speed for 5 minutes.
    dill, garlic, cucumber mix
  • Place cucumber mixture into a bowl and add in the yogurt. Stir and garnish with olive oil
    Greek yogurt, cucumber mixture
  • Place in the fridge for 1 hour. Serve
    tzatziki dip, bowl, olive oil, yogurt
Keyword appetizers, Dip, Easy recipe, Quick,

KALI MAS OREXI!!! 🙂

 

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

8 Comments

  1. Kouzounas Kitchen
    March 11, 2021 at 10:09 pm  ·  Reply

    You know how much I love this! In fact I am reposting this tomorrow. 🙂

  2. dtills
    March 14, 2021 at 10:42 pm  ·  Reply

    oooh! I bet those friends listen to you now!🤢

  3. Americaoncoffee
    March 18, 2021 at 1:04 am  ·  Reply

    Sounds yummy and a flip coleslaw.💓🍂🍂🍂🍂🍮🍂

  4. popsiclesociety
    March 23, 2023 at 1:02 pm  ·  Reply

    I love Tzatziki! I could simply eat it with everything! So refreshing! And I love to add the dill too 😉😋

    • foodzesty
      March 28, 2023 at 5:34 pm  ·  Reply

      Thanks Riiii!! hahahah its funny because I don’t eat Tzatziki due to the garlic butttttt I do make it for everyone else. hahahhah

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