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Turkish · Starter
Cacik with Spinach and Herbs
A thick Turkish yogurt meze of wilted spinach, cucumber, peas and fresh herbs, laced with garlic and dried mint. Eat it as a dip, spoon it on pita, or use it as a sauce for grilled meat.
- YieldServes 6
- Hands-on25 min
- Total35 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Cacik
- 1 tbspkosher salt, for the spinach water, plus more to taste
- 340 gspinach, stemmed
- 1 tspgarlic, finely chopped
- 1 tbsplemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 2 cupsplain whole-milk Greek yogurt
- 1¾ tspkosher salt, plus more to taste
- to tasteblack pepper, freshly ground
- ¼ cupgreen onions, finely chopped, mostly the white part
- ½ cupgreen peas, shelled and blanched, when in seasonoptional
- 1Persian cucumber, halved, seeded and diced small
- 2 tbspfresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped
- 1 tbspfresh spearmint leaves, chopped
- 1 tbspfresh dill leaves, chopped
- 1½ tspdried spearmint
To finish
- ¼ cupextra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 4romaine lettuce leaves, cut into thin ribbons
- 1 tspMaras pepper
To serve
- 4pita breadoptional
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