What is Custard and Cacik?
What is
A dessert or sweet sauce made with milk and eggs, or milk and a proprietary powder.
- 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
Milky, Sweet
Fresh, Sour smell