What is Cacik and Junket?

Definition of Cacik and Junket

Do you know What is Cacik and Junket. If you are looking for the definition of Cacik and Junket or want to know what is Cacik and Junket?, then this is where you will fetch your answers. Well, in simple terms

• 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.

While Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk. It might best be described as a custard or a very soft, sweetened cheese. Both these products are unique in their own ways. Cacik is a Not Available colored dairy product and Junket is Not Available colored. The food gets it color dependent on the ingredients used and the preparation methods employed. Sometimes artificial food colors are added to give the dairy product, a gourmet look. Apart from their color what distinguishes them is their flavor and aroma. Cacik bears Sour flavor with a Fresh and Sour smell aroma whereas Junket has Not Available flavor and a Not Available aroma. The color, flavor and the aroma of these products depict their origin. Cacik originated in Turkey, whereas origin of Junket is traced back to American, Denmark.