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Tarator

Name: Tarator
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bulgaria
Ingredients: 500g Plain yogurt; 2 Cucumber; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 pack Dill; 40g Walnuts; 2 tbsp Sunflower oil; 200ml (cold) Water; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Ice

Soup

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Yogurt with cucumber, garlic, dill, and walnuts — Bulgaria's cold summer soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tarator is a cold soup essential to Bulgarian summers: yogurt thinned with water and combined with chopped cucumber, garlic, dill, walnuts, and sunflower oil. Made in minutes without cooking, it's eaten as lunch on hot days or as the first course of a meal. It's one of the signature dishes of Bulgaria, the land of yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in a Sofia home in midsummer, cold tarator from the fridge is poured into bowls and downed in one go as hot wind blows through the window.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Plain yogurt 500g
Cucumber 2
Garlic 2 cloves
Dill 1 pack
Walnuts 40g
Sunflower oil 2 tbsp
Water 200ml (cold)
Salt 1 tsp
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the cucumber into small cubes or chop coarsely and sprinkle with a little salt.
Thin the yogurt with cold water and mix until smooth.
Add grated garlic, chopped dill, and salt.
Mix in the cucumber.
Chill well in the fridge.
Ladle into bowls, scatter with chopped walnuts, drizzle with sunflower oil, and float ice cubes on top.

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