Cravings and the original Greek style Tzatziki

Tzatziki with a slice of Greek olive bread

My recent Greek style olive bread made me crave for some Tzatziki to go alongside with. But the problem is to find any fresh dairy products here in China. Finding original unsweetened yogurt without any kind of flavor addition and finding fresh sour cream is really something that requires a lot of searching and once you found it, it will set you back a little fortune. But sometimes you got to give in your cravings and so I tried my luck with this little neighborhood shop that is specialized in baked goods, some Russian imported goods (such as caviar and sparkling wine) and among all of these, sometimes they also carry yogurt and sour cream. But it depends on their mood, the day and their supply situation of fresh milk. But who knew, when I went down to check with them, they really had both. I quickly grabbed a good supply of sour cream (enough for a quiche Lorraine and the Tzatziki) and a bit pot full of yogurt. Both set me back about 11.50 USD. Well, the things you do to still your craving, right? So back home, I put myself to work to make this original Greek style Tzatziki recipe which is quite simple and easy to make. It was just not so easy to find it. I was really browsing a lot of recipes but none of them was really original, most of them used nonsense items such as feta cheese or lemon juice. So I was glad to find this recipe:


Ingredients:

• 3 - 6 Cloves of garlic (up to your taste)
• ½ Tea spoon of salt
• 2 Table spoon (extra virgin) olive oil
• 1 cucumber
• 140 ml no sweetened natural yogurt
• Pepper to season
• 1 Table spoon of white wine vinegar
• 4 Table spoon of sour cream

Peel the cucumber, then proceed to grate the peeled cucumber (not too fine). Then take the grated cucumber in your hand and give it a real good squeeze to get rid of all the excess water. Put the cucumber in a bowl. Now peel the garlic and squeeze it also in the bowl. Put all the other ingredients in the bowl and give everything a good stir. Cover the bowl up and put it in the fried (take an airtight container to store your Tzatziki in the fried, otherwise your whole food will smell like garlic). Let everything marinate over night. Next day your Tzatziki is ready for consumption. I personally love it with bread, with BBQ meat, with stuffed wine leaves, there is actually little foods that I would not like to have a good portion of Tzatziki added to. Oh my, suddenly I got the craving for a good hamburger paddy grilled on a BBQ with some fresh Tzatziki on top. Think I got to find myself a BBQ grill this weekend . Cravings continued, triggered by cravings!!!!

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