What is Cheese and Cacik?
What is
Cheese, a dairy food consisting of compressed, coagulated and ripened curd of milk which is separated from the whey.
- 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.
Aroma
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Fresh, Sour smell
Origin
Central asian countries like kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan, Europe, Middle East
Turkey