Greek Tzatziki salad, an ideal side dish for a true Mediterranean experience at home! It is packed with fresh and crispy cucumbers, Greek yoghurt and a mix of different spices to enhance the overall aroma and flavour of the salad. Impress your family or visitors and serve them Greek Tzatziki salad, made with the help of Hana’s Recipes portal!
Greek Tzatziki salad: What can I serve with it?
From its healthy combination of utilised ingredients to an easy and quick preparation, Greek Tzatziki salad has quickly become a favourable side dish and not only in the Mediterranean region. Here are a couple of main course ideas from Hana’s Recipes past blog posts that you could try out together with Greek Tzatziki salad alongside them:
- Chicken cutlets: In general, chicken is a great match to Greek Tzatziki salad. Although the most common option is normally a simple grilled chicken, cutlets by Hana’s Recipes can be enjoyed with Greek salad as well. For a fully nutritious lunch or dinner, you may serve the cutlets not only with the salad, but also rice, sweet potatoes, perhaps mashed potatoes.
- Chicken wings: Wings made of chicken are also a suitable choice for Greek Tzatziki salad. Exactly as in the case above, you can serve the wings with the salad as well as with rice or other side dish to have a meal full of essential nutrients. However, it is also possible to consume the wings alone with the salad for a lighter version of lunch or dinner. Also, make sure you notice that the wings’ recipe on the Hana’s Recipes portal utilises a spicy sauce, so in case you would like to make them mild, substitute the sauce with something else, based on your personal preference.
- Properly seasoned salmon: Not only chicken but fish as well can suit Greek Tzatziki salad. Hana’s Recipes portal offers the salmon recipe, which will be ideal to the flavours and aroma of the cucumber delicacy from the Mediterranean region. In addition, the salmon recipe talks about how to properly season a fish like this, so that its natural aroma is enhanced in the right way. By paying attention to this, you will achieve a fully flavourful main course to Greek Tzatziki salad.
- Italian meatballs: Greeks often tend to serve Tzatziki salad with their lightly fried or baked meatballs. Although Hana’s Recipes has not written about such meatballs yet, it does offer you a recipe from Italy. Their meatballs are made of minced pork, rice, eggs, seasoned with a mix of flavourful spices. Exactly as in the cases above, feel free not only to accompany the meatballs with Greek Tzatziki salad but also other types of side dishes like rice, baked potatoes or even pasta.
Except for the mentioned ideas, you can obviously come up with your own main courses to combine Greek Tzatziki salad with. Be creative and have fun! At the end, the flavours have to suit your tastes to understand the true culinary experience behind this!
Ingredients
- 2 large cucumbers,
- 2 tablespoons of chopped dill,
- 500 g of white Greek yoghurt,
- Salt,
- Black pepper,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice,
- 1 dcl of olive oil
Greek Tzatziki salad: Its simple 10-minute preparation
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Start with washing the cucumbers and grating them into a bowl using a coarse grater. Then as shown, put the white Greek yoghurt into another bowl. Add olive oil, dill, lemon juice and garlic to it. Follow with salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly.
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Next, remove the excess juice from grated cucumbers, which was released in the meantime. Feel free to help yourself by pushing your hand against the cucumbers to make sure all the juice is squeezed out properly.
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Lastly, add the yoghurt mixture to cucumbers and mix altogether. Once ready, put the salad in the fridge for a while, so that the flavours start to combine nicely.
Well done! Greek Tzatziki salad is ready to be enjoyed!
Did you have fun making something originally Greek? If yes, Hana’s Recipes has another salad for you from the Mediterranean region. Click here to make “Horiatiki” from feta cheese, tomatoes, red onions, green bell peppers and black olives. You can also utilise cucumber leftovers from this Tzatziki salad!
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FAQ 1: Is it okay if I freeze Greek Tzatziki salad?
To be honest, freezing Greek Tzatziki salad is not recommended. Its texture can become too watery when thawing back, due to the high water content of both cucumbers and Greek yoghurt. We advise to reconsider this step before going with it.
FAQ 2: Can I use regular white yoghurt instead of Greek one?
The white Greek yoghurt is generally preferred for Tzatziki salad, due to its thick and creamy structure. When using the regular white one, you may need to strain it through a cheesecloth to achieve a similar consistency. Tzatziki salad is simply not the same without it!
