{"id":3587,"slug":"tzatziki","title":"Tzatziki","description":"Tzatziki is a yogurt sauce that's great over gyros, pitas, salads, lamb, as a dip, or for anything you'd like a cool tasty sauce on.","ingredients_raw":["1½ cups yogurt","4 cloves garlic, minced","1 tablespoon dill (sub. ¼ tablespoon of tarragon if no dill is available)","2 tablespoons olive oil","4 tablespoons lemon juice (optional)","2 small cucumbers, diced","Salt","White pepper, to taste (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["yogurt","garlic","dill","olive oil","lemon juice","cucumber","salt","white pepper"],"steps":["Drain yogurt in a sieve or a cheesecloth for about 3 hours prior to using it.","Drain the cucumber and salt it to further remove moisture.","Combine yogurt, garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice in a bowl and cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or more.","After refrigerating, add dill and cucumber into bowl and mix with a whisk until smooth.","Add pepper and salt to taste."],"categories":["Sauce recipes","Greek recipes","Recipes for sauces and condiments","Recipes using yogurt","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using cucumber","Recipes using dill","Appetizer recipes","Refrigerated recipes","Recipes using lemon juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tzatziki","source_ref":"4519035","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Tzatziki&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"a6e428cd07e1410d28591d91c420d985a5576396090adab781d27b5bd2d6c055","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:29Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:29Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/tzatziki"}