What is Cacik and Cheese?
What is
- It is a dish of seasoned, strained or diluted yogurt, eaten throughout the former Ottoman countries.
- It is similar to tarator in Balkan cuisine.
- It is made of salted strained yogurt or diluted yogurt mixed with cucumbers, garlic, salt, olive oil, sometimes with vinegar or lemon juice, and some herbs like dill, mint, parsley, thyme etc.
Cheese, a dairy food consisting of compressed, coagulated and ripened curd of milk which is separated from the whey.
Color
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Cacik and Cheese Flavor
Sour
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Cacik and Cheese Aroma
Fresh, Sour smell
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Vegetarian
Yes
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Origin
Turkey
Central asian countries like kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan, Europe, Middle East