Say What? Tzatziki

Here we have a recipe for tzatziki, a Mediterranean cucumber-yogurt sauce. I recently was given an entire bunch of fresh dill, which I love, but is a strong flavor, so a little goes a long way. I've made gouda dill scones and roasted potatoes with dill, but I wanted a way to use up some more. Enter: this flavorful (low cal!) dip/sauce.

Here we have our ingredients:

Cucumber

Greek yogurt (I used nonfat)

Garlic

Lemon juice

Fresh dill

Diced red onion

Scallion

S&P

Simply chop the cucumber into small pieces (you can also grate it on a box grater, but this makes the dip a little soupier), chop the garlic with a little salt until it makes a paste, and then add the rest of the ingredients. It's good just as it is, but after it sits in the fridge for a few hours, it's even better. 

I like to make Greek salads with olives, pepperoncini  and feta, and use this as a sort of dressing. It's also good with chips, or spooned into pita with vegetables and chickpeas.

Sabra Vegetable Dip

I really like Sabra's hummus. I've had a lot of hummus, and this one's the best. It's creamy, not chunky, and that's the way hummus should be. Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are runners-up, but Sabra is the best.


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Foodbuzz sent me a coupon to try any Sabra product for free. But seeing as I already had two varieties of hummus in my fridge, I went with something new: a Greek-yogurt vegetable dip. Genius! More than I care to admit, I really love those oil and chemical-laden creamy dips that are terrible for you. But these dips are made with Greek yogurt as the base, not mayonnaise, so they're pretty low in fat and calories. I tried the onion and herb flavor, and it was just like those French onion dips in the jar, but better for you. It was really good. So good, in fact, that the entire container was consumed in a matter of days and I forgot to take a picture of it.

So this was definitely a win. And the fact that it was free, well, that makes it a double win.