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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Micaela Pantke)
- Subject: COLLECTION: Tzatziki (Greek Sauce for Gyros / Side Dish)
- Message-ID: <9308190831.AA26009@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 10:31:39 +0200
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- CONTENTS:
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- Tsatsiki (Evangelos "Vangelis" Doussis)
- Tzatziki (Charles Grim)
- Tzatziki (Jon "The Thespian" Walker)
- Tzatziki (Michael Trofimoff)
- Tzatziki (Norbert Duell)
- Tzatziki (Siegrun Lorenzen)
- Tzatziki (Steve Pinn)
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- From: doussis@convex1.TCS.Tulane.EDU (Evangelos "Vangelis" Doussis)
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- TSATSIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- 4-5 cloves garlic crushed to death (juices saved with the garlic)
- 1/2 lb plain flavour yogurt
- 1/2 tblsp olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 1/4 cucumber, peeled , grated, and drained
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- Instructions:
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- Mix first four ingredients. Store in fridge until ready to serve (at
- least 1/2 hour). Mix in cucumber right before serving.
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- I love tsatsiki as a sauce for french fries, fried zuccini - my friend
- likes it on her steak !!!
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- From: cgrim@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Charles Grim)
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- TZATZIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 cucumber peeled, seeded and shredded
- 2-3 tblsp olive oil
- 1 tsp dill weed
- 3-4 cloves minced garlic
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- Instructions:
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- Stir together. Refrigerate for several hours and add salt and pepper to
- taste. Believe it or not it also makes a great chip dip.
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- From: jowalker@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Jon "The Thespian" Walker)
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- TZATZIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- yoghurt
- chopped garlic
- peeled chopped cucumber
- salt
- white pepper
- a little olive oil
- a little vinegar
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- From: tron@fafnir.la.locus.com (Michael Trofimoff)
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- TZATZIKI
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- This is a very versatile Greek sauce/dip/salad dressing.
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- Ingredients:
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- 4 cups plain yogurt, regular or nonfat
- 2 or 3 large cucumbers, peeled and seeded
- Salt
- 2 to 4 garlic cloves (or more to taste)
- 1 tblsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tblsp high quality olive oil
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- Optional:
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- freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 cup freshly chopped mint leaves (or to taste)
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- Instructions:
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- Line a sieve with either a double thickness of dampened cheesecloth or
- linen tea towel. Spoon in yogurt and set the sieve over a bowl.
- Refrigerate for two to three hours or until yogurt is about half its
- volume, nicely thick and creamy.
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- Shred or cut cucumber into julienne strips. Place in a colander in sink
- or over a bowl, sprinkle generously with salt, mix well and let drain
- for at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour. Rinse and gently pat dry.
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- Press the garlic into a bowl and, using a fork, mash it with a little
- bit salt. Add the thickened yogurt, cucumber, lemon juice, olive oil,
- and if desired, the pepper and mint. Mix well. Serve or refrigerate up
- to two days so flavors will mingle. Stir again before serving and
- sprinkle with additional minced mint leaves if desired.
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- Recipe may be cut in half.
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- From: nobi@hobbes.nbg.sub.org (Norbert Duell)
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- TZATZIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- 500g cream cheese ("Quark" in German)
- 300g natural yoghurt
- 1.5 - 2 cucumbers
- 1/2 head of red spanish garlic
- 1/2 head of french garlic
- salt
- dill
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- Instructions:
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- Mix cream cheese and yoghurt. Peel and mince garlic. Peel cucumbers and
- cut lengthwise in halves. Remove 'core'. Then dice cucumber and stir
- together with the garlic into the yoghurt mixture. Add a little salt and
- dill. Stir thoroughly and put 2 hours in refridgerator. Serve.
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- From: s.lorenzen@bionic.zer.de (Siegrun Lorenzen)
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- TZATZIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- 1/2 large head of garlic
- 2 cup cream yoghurt
- 3 tblsp vinegar
- 6 tblsp olive oil
- 1 bunch dill
- 1 cucumber
- freshly ground pepper
- salt
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- Instructions:
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- Peel and mince garlic cloves. Mix with yoghurt, add salt + pepper. Stirn
- in first vinegar, then oil. Mince dill finely, peel and dice cucumber
- very finely. Stir into the yoghurt mixture. Leave to cool in the
- refridgerator for at least 2-3 hours. Serve.
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- From: pinn@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com (Steve Pinn)
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- TZATZIKI
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- Ingredients:
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- 1 pint of plain yogurt
- 1/2 med. sized cucumber finely shredded
- 3 cloves of garlic (more or less by taste)
- 1/4 tsp dill weed
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- Instructions:
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- The yogurt is dumped into a strainer lined with a coffee filter and
- allowed to drain at least 2 hours (you can adjust the consistancy of the
- sauce by increasing this time up to 24 hours). The shredded cucumber is
- drained the same way.
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- Mix it all together and let it steep for at least 2 hours (it's better
- the next day) and enjoy!
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