Monday, January 18, 2010

Strained Yogurt Spread / Süzme Yoğurt / Haydari

Writer's Note: You don't need my fancy set-up to do this (notice I am using a flower vase as the base for my rigged contraption, sometimes I feel like kitchen MacGyver), but cheesecloth or a linen bag is recommended. Have you recently seen an episode of MacGyver? Uh, excuse me, since when did he have a mullet? Was I completely blind as a child? There's another hero of my adolescence shattered against the judgmental boulders of adulthood.

Ingredients:

1 32 oz. container full-fat traditional thick yogurt
2 garlic cloves
1/4 tsp. salt
6-7 sprigs of fresh dill, chopped
Aleppo pepper
dried mint
1 tsp. plus some amount good quality extra virgin
oil
Optional: grated cucumber (salted and drained) or purslane

Directions:

Drain the container of yogurt overnight in the fridge using a cheesecloth or linen bag. You will be left with a very small ball of drained yogurt.

Mash the garlic cloves with the yogurt to make a paste. Incorporate the paste into the yogurt. Add 1 tsp. olive oil and the chopped dill. You could also add some purslane or grated cucumber for the dish to make it brighter. Decorate with dried mint and Aleppo pepper and drizzle olive oil on top.

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