Tzatziki - recipe

This famous Middle Eastern sauce can be easily made also at home: prepare with us the tzatziki and serve it alone or together with meat or fish dishes.

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Hi everyone and welcome to the GialloZafferano kitchen, if you've ever been to Greece, you'll carry in your heart not only the beautiful landscapes, but also the tzatziki sauce. Let's see how to prepare it at home.
These are the ingredients we'll need:
14 oz (400 g) of Greek yoghurt (thick and firm)
1 cucumber
Some dill
2 tbsp of vinegar
4 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
2 big cloves of garlic
salt
Let's make together the tzatziki:
Begin by washing and drying the cucumber, so cut the tips off without peeling it. Then take a grater with large holes and grate the cucumber. I've placed a strainer onto a bowl so that the vegetation water can drain away. Now grate the whole cucumber. After that, let it drain in a fresh place for at least an hour; once all the liquid has drained away, squeeze it further with the help of the back of a spoon, in order to get any water out.
Now we're ready to assemble our tzatziki. In this bowl I've put the yoghurt and here is the cucumber, as you can see it's reduced considerably and it's perfectly dry; pour it into the bowl together with the dill and the garlic, which you'll have to smash or reduce to a sort of cream, for instance with a small mortar or if you can with a food procèssor. At this point mix all these ingredients, and towards the end add slowly, little by little, both the oil and the vinegar, and at last salt to taste.
Our tzatziki is finally ready. In Greece this sauce usually accompanies meat and fish dishes, and it's a basic ingredient of their most famous sandwich, the gyros. But you could use it also to dip in some bread or breadsticks or as an appetizer.
From Sonia and Giallozafferano, bye bye and see you next videorecipe.

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[Anna17315]

@iWebGuy haha here in greece we can't live without it! Once you taste it you never forget it hahaha

[NigelGriff]

LOVE tzatziki, great with sliced and baked ciabatta.

[kelRapunzel]

you are self-assimilating yourself to turkish culture..its fun to watch you becoming another turkish tribe -Helenoğulları boyu :)))

DIGIDIK DIGIDIK -

[kelRapunzel]

what is your problem:)))

Yes i am an exgreek from Helenoğulları tribe and my ancestor is

Dede Konstantin:PP

[BellaMorteGr]

Very nice try and Tzatziki is indeed so delicious!

But here in Greece we dont put inside "dill",maybe we could use it in the end,above tzatziki for decoration but not inside of it. And one other thing is when we use vinigar,we almost always put and some sugar inside. Lets say half tea-spoon. Everyone of course have different tastes and likes but try it and u ll remember me :) thanx for the video.

Greetings from Greece,peace to everyone !!

[gloup81]

@kelRapunzel Abdal ,Arabci,Bosha, Çingene, Gäwändi, Ghorbati, Qeraçi ,Susmani, Tahtacı,Tsigan ... do u know anything about these guys ? do u know what they have in comon ?

do u know about these maybe ? Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Nogais ,Qashqai ,Turkmens ,Yörük...they are so many i now can understand how easily u might get confused on who is who and dont grand ur self as a sure nomad , u may be an ex greek and dont know it ...

[gloup81]

@kelRapunzel rofl , google sesklo , dimini , fraxthi cave , then try to find something of that age about turks , after that , type nomad which is a greek word ( do u have a turkic one ? ) and check whose in that list or just try mongol nomad europe ... and then go eat some pork ...

when UR father WAS a NOMAD he was making ARJAN out of HORSE MILK cause he was a NOMAD

kisses

[tasosaki]

tzatziki + pita guro... simply THE BEST !

[thekingofguruz]

it is cucumber 'raita' as we call it in indian cuisine. may be we leave out garlic and olive oil. but squezzing a lemon would be better than adding vineger to yogurt.

[wilondon83]

I'd love to advice the translator that Tzatziki is actually what is called in english a "dip" not a souce!!

anyway lovely ...love Greek food and much as i love greece :P

[apolskis1]

@arslan71 it is greek stop stealing

[kelRapunzel]

@ThanosThess91 no Arslan, Greeks were a nomadic nation ,they lived in yurts ,they were herders and horseback warriors back in Asia

so they invented yogurt. later they came to Anatolia with us ,.

We are brothers..so peace ^_^