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Tzatziki Sauce

March 6, 2017, Updated January 16, 2019 — By Glitter & Graze — 4 Comments

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This tzatziki sauce is made with fresh ingredients and can be prepared in such a short time.  Tzatziki sauce is perfect to use as a dip or to spread on your favorite sandwiches.

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If you don’t know what taziki sauce is then you probably have never had a gyro before. Or maybe you have and didn’t know that yummy white sauce they put on that gyro was called taziki sauce. I’m one of those “please add extra taziki sauce to my gyro” type of people. It is so good.

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To believe it or not tzatziki is full of healthy ingredients too. So no guilt in eating this. Greek yogurt and cucumbers are the main ingredients. Add a little garlic, lemon juice, dill, and spices and that’s it. Simple and healthy all rolled into one tasty treat.

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You want to use the full fat Greek yogurt instead of the low fat. Now just take a strainer and some coffee filters or a cheese cloth to drain the yogurt for a few hours. This will take out any extra moisture to make your taziki sauce thicker.

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Now to the cucumbers. Everyone does this part different. You want to cut the cucumber long ways and dig out all the seeds. Then I take one half of the cucumber and chop into small cubes. The other half I grate with a cheese grater. There’s going to be a lot of cucumber juice to go along with this step.

Cucumber is naturally a juicy vegetable. You want to try and get as much as that juice out of the cucumber. What I did was put the shredded cucumber in a Ziploc bag and cut the tip off one of the ends and squeezed all the juice out.

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As for the garlic, I’m not the one who likes to bite into a big chuck of garlic so I took a clove of garlic and used a zester to grate the garlic. If you don’t have a zester you can minced the garlic super fine.

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Now just add all the ingredients and mix together. After you are done mixing refrigerate for at least a hour so all the flavors can blend in together. You can store this taziki for a few days. You can use this sauce as a dip or add onto sandwiches or like I have seen just eat it straight out of the bowl with a spoon.

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Taziki Sauce

This taziki sauce is made with fresh ingredients and can be prepared in such a short time. Taziki sauce is perfect to use as a dip or to spread on your favorite sandwiches.
Prep Time2 hrs 10 mins
Refrigerate1 hr
Total Time2 hrs 10 mins
Course: dressing
Cuisine: greek
Keyword: greek dip, yougurt dip
Servings: 4
Calories: 134kcal
Author: Glitter and Graze

Ingredients

  • 2 cups full fat of greek yogurt
  • 1 cucumber
  • 2 TBSP of fresh lemon juice 1 lemon
  • 1 TBSP of chopped dill
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 2 TBSP of olive oil
  • 1/2 TSP sea salt
  • 1/2 TSP of pepper

Instructions

  • Take a strainer and a bowl and place 2 coffee filters or a cheese cloth and put in strainer and add greek yogurt to drain for 2 hours in the refrigerator
  • Take the cucumber and cut long ways and dig out all the seeds
  • Take one half of the cucumber and chop into small cubes and the other half grate with a cheese grater. Get rid of excess juice from the cucumber
  • Peel the garlic cloves and use a zester to grate the garlic or mince super fine
  • Chop up the fresh dill
  • Add all the ingredients into a bowl and mix together then refrigerate for at least an hour

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Taziki Sauce
Amount Per Serving
Calories 134 Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Cholesterol 5mg2%
Sodium 328mg14%
Potassium 243mg7%
Carbohydrates 6g2%
Sugar 4g4%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 55IU1%
Vitamin C 5.8mg7%
Calcium 123mg12%
Iron 0.2mg1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Comments

  1. giorgos says

    May 11, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    nice recipe … i want correct the name… is TZATZIKI.

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  2. Jennifer says

    April 17, 2021 at 2:46 am

    5 stars
    This was a wonderful recipe. I didn’t have fresh dill, so used dried and it was delicious. Served it with sweet potato falafels and green salad. Everyone loved it. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Dainya says

      April 17, 2021 at 11:07 am

      So glad you enjoyed it. Yeah sometimes you just have to use what you have on hand

      Reply
  3. Patrick says

    September 23, 2022 at 4:11 am

    5 stars
    Made this Tzatziki as suggested and it is just Fantastic. The right balance of textures and tang with the pop of the dill. Just right. Served it with grilled chicken kebobs and coconut rice. Yum.

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