What is Cacik and Smetana?

Definition of Cacik and Smetana

Do you know What is Cacik and Smetana. If you are looking for the definition of Cacik and Smetana or want to know what is Cacik and Smetana?, 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 Smetana is a thick, yellowish- white and slightly sour tasting cream that contains about 40% of milk fat. Both these products are unique in their own ways. Cacik is a Not Available colored dairy product and Smetana 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 Smetana has Sour flavor and a Milky aroma. The color, flavor and the aroma of these products depict their origin. Cacik originated in Turkey, whereas origin of Smetana is traced back to Russia.