Greek Recipe : 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.

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.