Easy DIY Tzaziki

This is my favorite dip sauce among all the common sauces out there. The reason is Tzaziki is light, non-fattening and compliment finger food well without robbing the finger food original flavour or cause the person to feel greasy. My first encounter with this sauce is during my undergrad studies in Melbourne, Australia in a Greek restaurant Stalactites serving Souvlaki. Tzaziki is applied to grill sliced lamb/chicken wrapped with lettuce, tomato in a pita.

Ready-made Tzaziki is only available in Carrefour and Cold Storage at a premium price for a small tub. You can also use Tzaziki as replacement for ketchup, mustard in your hotdog. If you having a big finger food party, making your own Tzaziki is the way to go.

Tzaziki

1. Fromage Frais AKA Zero Fat Fresh Cheese or Sour Cream (Greek Yogurt for Tzaziki purist)
2. MasterFoods Garlic Powder (Garlic Puree Not Chopped Garlic for Tzaziki purist)
3. Cucumber (preferably japanese kind as they do not have that much seed)
4. Salt & Pepper (Optional)

For Tzaziki purist, Greek Yogurt filtered on a cloth to remove the excess water then it was mixed with grated salted drained cucumber and garlic puree. Little salt & pepper is added to it to adjust the taste. This may be troublesome for busy people like me.

I came out with an easy DIY Tzaziki that does not shy in taste than the authentic Tzaziki. Fromage Frais is a zero fat fresh cheese I bought from Carrefour which I also use for doing blue cheese salad dressing. I had leftover why waste. You can use sour cream as well or Greek yogurt if it is available in the supermart near you.

Using a normal bowl, I scoop 2 tablespoon of Fromage Frais then I sprinkle 2 times MasterFoods Garlic Powder into the Fromage (I don't like to use blender to blend garlic out of blue as cleanup later is a hassle, therefore powder garlic is the way to go). You can go less if you don't really like garlicky taste too strong. For the salted cucumber, you can grate it beforehand and sprinkle some salt on it to extract the water out of it. Before you add it into the Tzaziki mixture squeeze out excess water and mix it well. If you find the Tzaziki too light you can add in pinch of salt and pepper to strengthen the taste. There you have you own DIY Tzaziki dip sauce.