This recipe yields far more than you'll need to make any one dish, which is the point. If you have it on hand, it will take you less than 30 minutes to make most of the other dishes in Michael Psilakis's From Live to Eat: Cooking the Mediterranean Way. It's a dip for vegetables and pita, a flavor-packed sauce for sushi (yes, it's easier to make than you think and it doesn't have to be perfectly executed to taste amazing).
From Live to eat: Cooking the Mediterranean Way by Michael Psilakis
Ingredients
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled or garlic confit
- 1/2 cup white vinegar or white wine vinegar
- 4 cups Greek yogurt
- 1 large English cucumber, ends trimmed, peeled, and halved lengthwise, seeds discarded and flesh cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 3 tablespoons loosely packed chopped fresh dill
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
Combine garlic and vinegar in a blender and puree untiI smooth. Combine the yogurt and garlicky vinegar in a bowl. Using a whisk, gently work the liquid into the yogurt until it is fully incorporated.
Fold in the cucumbers, dill, salt, and pepper. Transfer to a container with a tightfitting lid. The dip will keep for up to 1 week in the refrigerator.
NOTE: Be sure to remove all of the seeds from the cucumber; they release water making the dip too loose. If raw garlic is too assertive for you, use the tamer, sweeter Garlic Confit. I love the almost obnoxiously acidic flavor of white vinegar here, but you can tone it down by using white wine vinegar instead.
