What is Cacik and Sour cream?
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.
- Sour cream is a dairy product obtained by fermenting a regular cream with certain kinds of lactic acid bacteria.
- The bacterial culture, which is introduced either deliberately of naturally, sour and thickens the cream.
Aroma
Fresh, Sour smell
Milky
Origin
Turkey
Europe, Greece, Italy