Tzatziki

I got this recipe from my sister. She said the recipe was hand written, so this recipe could be from anywhere. Thanks to the nameless person who gave it to her!

Ingredients
2 cups of Greek yogurt
3 cloves of garlic
One cucumber
Salt
Pepper

First, I peeled the cucumber and started to slice it into rounds. Then I remembered to look at the instructions from my test message and sliced the cucumber lengthwise so I could scoop out the seeds. This was pretty easy, as running the bowl end of the spoon down the center of each side of the cucumber got them all out! I chopped up the cucumber into small pieces and added them to the yogurt in the bowl. My sister mentioned that some people put the cucumber into a food processor to get the cucumber bits finely chopped, but she doesn’t mind bigger chunks of cucumber. Since I don’t own a food processor and wanted to eat dinner as soon as possible, I opted for the bigger chunks as well. She also mentioned preferring whole fat or 2% yogurt over the nonfat kind. Since they only had plain nonfat Greek yogurt at the grocery store I visited and fruit flavored Greek yogurt sounded pretty awful in this recipe, I went the nonfat route.

After peeling the garlic cloves I minced the garlic as small as I could with a knife. I really need to practice this skill so I had some larger bits of raw garlic than most people would prefer. I mixed it into the yogurt and cucumber and then used the salt and pepper grinders, about ten twists for the salt and five for the pepper. I served it with slices of orange bell pepper and celery. My two year old went to town with it. She dipped her steak into it as well as the vegetables, which was a genius move and tasted quite good! She even told her Grandparents she liked the white sauce, so we have a winner. **Warning, if you are serving this to a two year old and lack garlic mincing skills, have some milk handy for when they strike a garlic nugget!

The Tzatziki travelled to work for lunch well so the leftover is being used. I think the next time I make this I might add some dill to see how it tastes. Anything that encourages vegetable consumption in the toddler set has my vote!