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Tarator Sauce Recipe

Tarator sauce, which is actually a Balkan cuisine recipe, is also one of the indispensable appetizers and sauces of Turkish cuisine. This is where the name of Tarator sauce comes from. It is especially used for fish recipes, fried calamari and fried mussels. It is usually mixed with tartar sauce.


Tarator Sauce Ingredients

  • 6 slices of stale bread or meat

  • 6 tablespoons of walnuts

  • 2 cloves of garlic

  • 10 tablespoons of olive oil

  • 1/2 (half) lemon juice

  • 2 tablespoons of strained yoghurt

  • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise (optional)

  • 1 teaspoon of salt


How to Make Tarator Sauce?

  1. Crumble the stale bread. Grind the crumbled bread and walnuts together in a food processor.

  2. Add lemon juice, garlic, yoghurt, salt, olive oil and mayonnaise and blend it a few more times.

  3. After mixing it all, leave it in the refrigerator to rest. Bon appetit.


Tarator Sauce (Squid Sauce) Tips

  • Since fresh bread is soft, it does not crumble like stale bread. For this reason, stale bread is used in making tarator sauce.

  • When making the sauce, all ingredients must be mixed until thoroughly combined.

  • Tarator sauce should be rested in the refrigerator and served.


What goes with Tarator Sauce?


Tarator Sauce
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