Have you ever had tzatziki sauce before? It’s one of those lip-smacking good sauces that’s served with crispy pita chips for dipping, on top of gyros or on the side of souvlaki at Greek and Mediterranean restaurants. This creamy yogurt cucumber sauce is refreshing, cool and delicious on just about anything you can find to dip it in.
Is tzatziki sauce healthy?
Yes! Tzatziki sauce is perfect healthy snack, especially thanks to protein-packed greek yogurt, shredded cucumber and anti-inflammatory garlic. It’s as simple as it sounds: yogurt cucumber sauce!
This creamy, light, flavorful, refreshing sauce is delicious with carrot sticks, cucumber slices, radishes, or even on top of roasted veggies or baked potatoes. Try packing it for your next snack… even kids love it!
Tips for making homemade tzatziki sauce
Homemade tzatziki sauce is likely easier to make than you think. The best part though? All you need is one bowl and 5 simple ingredients (not counting salt and pepper, of course!). For this tzatziki sauce recipe, I have a few tips for you:
- I recommend using a thick plain whole milk or 2% greek yogurt so that the cucumber doesn’t water down the yogurt too much.
- It doesn’t hurt to squeeze your cucumber of excess moisture before adding it to the bowl with the greek yogurt.
- Use fresh garlic in this recipe. You can either grate or finely mince the garlic. Either way, you will want to make sure that it’s very small so that you don’t get bites of garlic. Another option is to add the greek yogurt, garlic and lemon juice to the bowl of a food processor to get it nice and smooth (do not process the dill or the shredded cucumber).
Use homemade tzatziki in these recipes
Easy Chopped Greek Chickpea Salad
Crispy Roasted Breakfast Potatoes
I highly recommend serving it at your next party with pita chips, carrot sticks, cucumber slices, radishes and anything else you can dream up. Enjoy! xo.
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Homemade Tzatziki Sauce Recipe (yogurt cucumber sauce!)
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2% or whole milk plain greek yogurt
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- 1/2 cup finely grated/shredded cucumber (from 1 small cucumber)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together the Greek yogurt, olive oil fresh lemon juice, garlic, cucumber and dill until well combined. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Serve with pita chips, in a gyro, on a sandwich, in greek salads or with carrot sticks. Makes 6 servings.
13 comments
Yum! I am all about this! This would pair perfectly with a marinated chicken recipe I make a lot!
Absolutely! The perfect dip.
Do you think this would taste good made with plain cashew yogurt?
Do you think this recipe would taste good using plain cashew yogurt?
I haven’t tried it, but if you like the taste of cashew yogurt then it should be great!
Can this be frozen?
I wouldn’t suggest freezing yogurt based sauces as they are likely to separate.
So easy to put together, tastes fresh, and makes me look fancy! Thanks for another amazing and easy recipe!!!
Looks good-I also add a splash of olive oil and a touch of mint to mine.
Love it! Sounds delicious.
Tips for making your homemade tzatziki sauce are great. Although I haven’t tried it yet. But I found these ingredients to be very good. I always research and try to follow instructions from different sources. However, I have not been able to find a suitable sauce for myself. I think this will be the way to make it very suitable for my taste
Such a delicious recipe! I ran out of yogurt, so I used cottage cheese instead, and it came out just as wonderfully! Thanks for another great recipe Monique!!
Perfect! So glad you enjoyed!