I do love a good
healthy meal, and chicken and salad is always a winner in that respect. But after
a while, it can sometimes get a bit, well, boring.
But when you start “jazzing”
up your salad with fancy dressings, croutons, flat breads etc, you start taking
the health and goodness out.
So with that in
mind, when my latest boring chicken and salad, low fat, low carb dinner needed something
to make it a little tastier, I welcomed some tzatziki!!!
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| homemade, delicious and light! |
I love tzatziki but its often quite high in fat, salt, additives and all the other nasties when you buy it. So why not make your own?!
Here's how...
What you need is:
250grams of natural
or greek yogurt
1 tablespoon of
extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon of
vinegar (optional)
3-5 gloves of minced
garlic
1/3 large cucumber,
seeded, peeled and diced
Generous sprinkling of
chopped mint
Seasoning
In a large bowl, mix
together all the ingredients except the cucumber and mint.
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| unless you can really finely chop, then use a garlic crusher |
Either by hand or
with an electric one, whisk the mixture until well combined.
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| this doesn't need a lot of mixing, so a hand whisk seemed fine |
Wash, peel and
de-seed the cucumber and finely dice. Make sure you dry the cucumber pieces
before adding to the yogurt mixture as cucumber holds a lot of water and no one
wants a watery tzatziki!
Finally, add the
chopped mint (you can also use dill) in whatever quantities suits your taste
buds, and mix.
Cover the mixture,
and leave in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving.
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| fresh ingredients, fresh taste |
Serve straight from
the fridge with a sprig of mint to garnish on top!
Now, seriously, how easy is that!
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