this easy and quick 5 ingredient is all you need for a delicious sauce that goes with almost anything coming from the grill.

If the real Greek yoghurt is not available to you then you can use Greek style yoghurts, but it won’t be the same.
Below is the Fage yoghurt (pronounced fa-yay)of 150 grams that I used for this recipe. You also have other quantities, like 450 grams) depending on the amount of tzatziki you’re making. The ratio cucumber to yoghurt is about ½ cucumber (depending how thick the cucumber is) per 150 grams.

I start with getting a box grater and grate the cucumber into to a salad spinner. This is to get rid of the excess juices, but if you like the tzatziki less thick grate the cucumber directly into the bowl. If this is your first time, use the salad spinner method but keep the juices, this way you can add the delicious cucumber juices later on when the tzatziki is too thick for your liking.

Next step is to get out the garlic and the microplane. I love using the microplane because then I don’t have to cut of the hard stems of the garlic and the is no need to chop the garlic because the microplane does it all for you.

Mix all the ingredients into a bowl and add salt and some really good quality olive oil. I have some Greek salt available to me, but only because my mother in law only wants to use that when she is visiting us and cooking. I know, salt is salt….unless it’s smoked salt, but don’t use that on the tzatziki.

Then there is nothing left to mix it all together and drizzle some of that good olive oil on top.

καλή όρεξη (bon appétit)

tzatziki

authentic Greek sauce

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 0 minutes mins

Ingredients Equipment

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup Greek yoghurt or greek style
• cucumber
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 olive oil extra virgin
• 1 pinch salt

Equipment

• 1 box grater
• 1 bowl for mixing
• 1 salad spinner optional
• 1 microplane or any other fine grater you might have
• 1 flexible spatula