Tzatziki Recipe
Total Time
15 mins
Prep Time
15 mins
Rating
4.83 out of 5 stars
(116)
Ingredients
3 cups
- 1/2 English cucumber
- 1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
- 16 oz plain Greek yogurt, cold, (either full fat or fat-free will work)
- 1 1/2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice, Juice of 1/2 lemon; please squeeze a real lemon
- 3 to 4 garlic cloves, peeled and grated
- 1/3 cup chopped dill
- 3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus more to drizzle
- 1/4 tsp salt, or to taste
- 1/8 tsp black pepper, or to taste
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Preparation
Chef’s notes
If you don’t have a cheesecloth, you can use a clean, lint-free kitchen tea towel, or set cucumbers over a fine mesh strainer, then squeeze out as much liquid as you can with your hands.
Nutrition label is based on using fat-free Greek yogurt.
Getting rid of excess cucumber juice is important so that your tzatziki sauce isn’t watery the next day.