Tarator Sauce

Name: Tarator Sauce (Tarator)
Yield: To Serve 4-6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: salt to taste; ½ tsp red pepper; 50 ml/2 fl oz vinegar or lemon juice; 1 tbsp olive oil; 50 ml/2 fl oz stock; 50 g/2 oz shelled walnuts; 2 cloves of garlic; 50 g/2 oz breadcrumbs

Tarator

Preparation info

To Serve
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Tarator is used most extensively in the Aegean region. It may be eaten on its own as a dip and is particularly good with boiled vegetables and plainly cooked fish.

Ingredients

50 g/2 oz shelled walnuts
50 g/2

Method

Pound or mince the walnuts, breadcrumbs and garlic to a paste or blend in a food processor. Add sufficient stock until you achieve the consistency of thick yoghurt. Add the olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice, sprinkle with salt and mix.

Pour the tarator into a dish, pour over the olive oil and sprinkle with red pepper.

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