Zadziki sauce classic Greek

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make zajiki sauce (tzatziki)? Prepare the products to start. Choose yogurt without additives, natural. Traditionally, zadziki or tzatziki are made from Greek yogurt - it is very thick in consistency. If you haven't found one on sale, then take a regular one and hang it overnight in gauze - the yogurt will become much denser.

2. Step 2:

   

   Prepare the greens first. It should be rinsed very well under running water and dried. Then finely chop it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Now take care of the cucumber. If the cucumber is large and with a thick skin, then it should be cleaned. It is also better to remove seeds from this. Leave the young cucumber with thin skin as it is. Cleanly washed cucumber grate on a coarse grater. Transfer to a separate bowl, you can even put the grated cucumber in a sieve and put it over a bowl. Add a little salt and leave for about five minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the garlic and finely chop the cloves. I used a garlic grinder, but you can grate it on a grater.

6. Step 5:

   

   Meanwhile, the cucumber has given juice, it must be drained. If you kept it in a sieve, then just drain the released liquid. If it was just lying in a bowl, then first squeeze the cucumber mass with your hands. And then drain the excess.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add chopped herbs, grated and squeezed cucumber, garlic, salt and pepper to the yogurt.

8. Step 7:

   

   Mix the sauce well, taste for salt. If necessary, add more. Leave the zajiki sauce to infuse for 15 minutes. Pour olive oil over it before serving.