Cacık, the delicious salty yoğurt

Cacık, the delicious salty yoğurt

Normally, yogurt for me is a sweet and medium viscous drink. In the supermarket you can find many flavours, such as fruit or diet for example. However, when I travelled to Turkey I tasted cacık, mantı, among other dishes that mixes this yogurt drinks with pasta.

Unthinkable for me until I tasted it. I changed immediately my mind and it was irreversible. I discovered that you can do wonderful meals mixing with yogurt! Lucky for me, cacık is quite easy to do and real quick too. I will show you how in this blog post.

What do you need for Cacık?

Ingredients

  • 500mL of greek yogurt (flavourless).
  • 2 spoons of garlic paste.
  • 1 teaspoon (or teabag) of mint.
  • 2 teaspoons of salt.
  • white creamy homemade strawberry and blueberry yogurt on a wooden table , top view or overhead shot

Materials, Tools and Machinery

Preparation of Cacık

Place the greek yogurt in the ceramic bowl. I like garlic related sauces to be served warm (not hot) so let's put it just 30 seconds in the microwave. If you like it at room temperature instead, put the greek yogurt in a metallic bowl.

We are almost done! Now put the salt, mint and the garlic paste inside the bowl and make sure to mix, mix and repeat mixing until you can see that it is homogenous.

Final version of the Cacık

Now it is ready to serve. This should be eaten spreaded on salty foods or as a companion; for example on Lahmacun. Now, let's add also a variant to this recipe.

Lahmacun with Cacık.

Alternative: Cucumber!

If you are a cucumber fan, good news because this recipe was actually meant to be with cucumber. My brother forgot to buy the cucumber for the cacık that day so we figured out a way to cook without it. I include both versions here for reference.

Add 0,5L of water into the “final version” of cacık and then cut in cubes the cucumber. Add the cut pieces into the bowl and mix them. Of course, the sauce is not going to be viscous but it will takes delicious as companion in your meal.

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If you happen to speak turkish or be a turk (Merhaba Ortadoğun’dan arkadaş), you could watch this video in YouTube, which helped me to understand the recipe much better. Even if you don’t speak the language, it will give you a visual idea on how to do it with your hands the right way.

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