Easy tzatziki
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any recipes, hasn’t it? Here’s one that Mr. Improbable and I have been more or less living on this summer. If you, too, find it hard to eat in hot weather, this is a good one for you. As usual, all amounts are subjective:
1 cup plain yogurt (we prefer Fage’s full-fat)
1/2 cucumber
1 pressed garlic clove or about 1/2 tsp juice from a jar of minced garlic if you’re lazy like me
1 t olive oil
1 t lemon juice
Grate the cucumber into a bowl using a cheese grater (the finer the grater, the better). You can peel it or not; I usually get one of those long European cucumbers that come in their own special condoms (what is up with that?) and don’t peel it. If you get one that’s all waxed and all, peel it. (Okay, why are cucumbers either in a condom or waxed? I don’t even want to think about this.)
Squeeze excess cucumber juice out of shredded cucumber.
Mix all ingredients together. You can also add dill and black pepper if you like that.
This is great plain, with rice or potatoes, as a topping for salmon or a dip for vegetables.
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I have a nearly identical recipe for cucumber soup. Use 2 cucumbers, heavily salted, set aside. Mix yogurt and broth until soup-ish consistency. Add garlic. Thoroughly rinse cucumbers and add to yogurt. Eat on a hot day for amazing yumminess.
Yep! It only really depends on what consistency you like things. The Fage full-fat yogurt is REALLY thick, I use it as a substitute for sour cream, and the condom cukes (as opposed to the waxed cukes) have fewer seeds, and thus a less watery consistency.
I love flexible, forgiving recipes that can be soup or dip or stew!
“Okay, why are cucumbers either in a condom or waxed?”
lol!
because you are using the wrong kind of cucumber!
Have you ever tried the small ones? (grocery stores sometimes have them in bags of 4 or so, I forget what they call them . . ., this year at the farmers’ market they seem to be “divas”) In my house the small ones are the only things allowed to be called cucumbers. my husband is Israeli, ask an Israeli sometime about cucumbers ;)
You can use those for things other than pickling? I wasn’t sure. I do like the condom ones fine, though.