Tzatziki (Cucumber and Yogurt Dip)

Emeril Lagasse

Recipe Courtesy of Emeril Lagasse

Show: Emeril LiveEpisode: Greek Specialties

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Total Time:
1 hr 12 min
Prep
12 min
Cook
1 hr 0 min
Yield:
about 2 1/2 cups
Level:
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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
  • 1 cup Greek yogurt
  • 1 medium cucumber, peeled and small diced
  • 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh mint
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Kalamata olives
  • Slices of fried bread

Directions

Whisk the olive oil, vinegar, garlic and yogurt together. Season with salt and pepper. Season the yogurt with salt and pepper. Fold the yogurt and mint into the mixture. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. Serve with black olives and slices of fried bread.

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  • on March 04, 2012

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    This recipe is simple, but perfect. I've been looking for a recipe so that I can make this on my own -- this is as good as or better than anything I have ever had at a restaurant or from the Mediterranean markets. I followed another reviewer's suggestion and used fresh lemon juice instead of vinegar and I cut the olive oil from 1 tbsp to 1 tsp per my preference. The Greek yogurt is a must. Once I added the cucumber, I could have eaten the entire recipe by myself without sharing.

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  • on March 28, 2010

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    How does using 1 cup of yogurt and a few tablespoons of this and that come up with 2.5 cups of dip? The recipe is written wrong. I can deduce that the yogurt is not added to the other ingred. to whisk and then the salt and pepper is added to the yogurt and than combined. I have a greek friend who gives me this dip and I'm anxious to try to make it myself.

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  • on April 11, 2008

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    This was a delicious dip as authentic as my friends and their parents have made for as long as I have known them and then some. Use Greek yogurt if you can (whole foods, trader joe's, and other fine grocers carry it or as Lisa said in her review use a strainer. Typically if I can't find greek yogurt (it's creamier with no whey-liquid often at the top of the yogurt- in it. Pour your non-greek style yogurt into a strainer lined with cheesecloth and put the strainer over a bowl and place in refrigerator overnight. You'll have a thick cheese like yogurt in the morning. It's great to use in place of sour cream on baked potatoes, too! Emeril's tzatziki is great with toasted pita chips.

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