There is nothing better than a fresh Tzatziki sauce. I love the taste from the fresh cucumbers paired with the creamy taste from the yogurt. Add a bit of dill and garlic and it is the perfect fresh cucumber sauce.
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Ingredients for Tzatziki
Only a few ingredients are needed to make your own Homemade Cucumber Tzatziki. You need plain yogurt or plain Greek yogurt, a cucumber (that you will finely grate or finely mince), fresh squeezed lemon juice, minced garlic, olive oil and some seasonings.

Prep the Cucumbers
You need at least one cucumber for this Homemade Tzatziki Sauce. If you want it to be strong on the cucumber taste then you can add more to your liking.
First, peel the cucumber. This is optional, if you don’t mind cucumber peel in your sauce you don’t have to peel it. Then cut your cucumber in half lengthwise and try and remove most of the seeds. It is ok if there are still some left.
Then, you will need to finely grate or finely chop/mince the cucumber. I use a box grater that has a side that grates things fine.

Just grate the cucumber and you will end up with the perfect tiny pieces of cucumber.

You will also end with quite a bit of cucumber juice – keep the juice!!!

Making Easy Homemade Tzatziki
To make the easy Tzatziki just add your ingredients to a bowl. Start with the yogurt.

Then, add the grated cucumber. I will press the juice out of the grated cucumber before adding them to sauce.

I then add the other ingredients, along with some of the cucumber juice.

Mix it up and adjust the seasonings to your liking.
I then slowly add more cucumber juice until I get the perfect amount of cucumber flavor.


You can also get fancy and leave a bit of cucumber juice and dried dill weed on top for serving.

We eat our Tzatziki Cucumber sauce with our Greek Chicken and Yellow Lemon Rice for the perfect Greek meal. It is delicious on the chicken and rice, or used as a sauce for dipping Pita Bread (aka Pocket Bread) or Naan Bread or pita crackers.

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Fresh Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups plain yogurt or Plain Greek Yogurt I prefer Plain Yogurt
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tsp lemon juice, fresh squeeze or more to taste
- 1 tsp minced garlic *bottled minced, if using fresh minced use 1/2 tsp
- 1/2 tsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp dried dill weed
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Peel your cucumber (optional- keep the peel on if you like it), then cut it in half lengthwise and try and remove most of the seeds. Grate or finely mince the cucumber so it is finely shredded/minced. Put the grated or minced cucumbers in a bowl and press most of the juice out, letting the juice stay in the bowl. Take out the minced/grated cucumber and add to another bowl. Save the juice in the bowl to add back in.
- In the other bowl with the minced/grated cucumbers, add all of the ingredients and mix well. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add in the cucumber juice to taste. I usually add about 1/2-2/3 of the juice. You can add more lemon juice as needed.
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