Culinary traditions of Greek cuisine. Dzadziki sauce: a recipe for cooking

Today we will talk about a fresh, deliciously tasty piquant Greek sauce. The taste of many dishes is complemented by dzadziki. The recipe for its preparation is simple. The main ingredient of the sauce is natural Greek yoghurt. It is unsweetened and very thick. In the Russian market, Greek yoghurt, of course, is not represented. Therefore, you can use when cooking sauce with sour cream fat content of 20%. And it is even better to mix it with cottage cheese. But also you can prepare yogurt yourself. Take the cow or goat milk (800 ml), the ferment (130 ml). Heat the milk up to 40 degrees. Then dilute the leaven in it. Cover the dishes with a lid and wrap them with a towel. After eight hours, yogurt will "ripen" (it will acquire the necessary consistency). Dzhaziki are served on the table as an independent dish in deep containers. You can decorate with olives or olives. In Greece, fresh bread or pieces of toasted cake are also served in the sauce. Dzadziki can be called an excellent cool snack, which in the summer heat quenches thirst and appetite awakens. Below are the step-by-step descriptions that will help you cook this sauce deliciously.

Sauce dzadziki: recipe

Main Ingredients :

• Two cucumbers;
• Olive oil (10 grams);
• lemon juice;
• Dill (bunch);
• Natural yogurt (500 grams);
• Five cloves of garlic;
• salt.

Cooking process

Cucumbers to wash, dry. Grate them on a fine grater (you can crush it in a blender). Pour out the resulting mush of juice. Squeeze the garlic. Add it, yogurt and olive oil in a bowl. Then squeeze out a lemon, about one teaspoon. At the very end, salt. All mix well. To serve ready dzadziki.

Recipe with pickled cucumbers

Main Ingredients :

• Sour cream (250 grams);
• A bunch of dill;
• Two pickled cucumbers;
• Salt (5 grams);
• Two cloves of garlic.

Cooking process

Put the sour cream on the plate. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes (you can grate, only squeeze out the juice). Wash the greens, dry and then finely chop. Mix everything. Add the squeezed garlic. Add salt. Mix everything. Put for a couple of hours in the refrigerator to brew. Insanely delicious with meat and potatoes is a sauce of dzadziki. Take a note to yourself. Be sure to try to cook.

Recipe: trout dzhatsiki

Main Ingredients :

• Natural yogurt (200 grams);
• Dill (bunch);
• Apple cider vinegar (5 grams);
• Black pepper powder;
• One trout;
• Red onions - 1 piece;
• Clove of garlic;
• Salt (5 grams).

Cooking process

Take trout, wash. Cut into pieces (according to your taste). Pepper and salt them. Take the dishes for baking. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put on for twenty minutes. While the fish is languishing, let's make the sauce. Mix yoghurt and apple cider vinegar in a bowl. We take the red onions, peel off the husk and chop it up finely. Dill the dill and garlic. Add all these ingredients to the bowl. Salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly and put in the refrigerator. As soon as the time runs out, we take out the fish. Let's cool down a little. We make a dish. We put a piece of trout on a plate and next we add two tablespoons of jazziki.

The recipe for Greek sauce is simple, as you can see. You can serve it also to meat and vegetable dishes and seafood. But the main thing is that you can eat it without anything or just smear it on bread.