Tarator – cold yoghurt soup

Do you like a Tzatziki sauce?  Well, imagine it is a soup, I mean really cold soup.  Balkan countries prepare it for hundreds of years; it is really refreshing when it’s 100 F outside. I prepare it every summer

So, what do you need?

2 large cucumbers or 1 English cucumber

1 can of yoghurt

3-4 stems of dill

1 clove of garlic

Walnuts (you will be adding them in the end, so it’s up to you how much)

1 oz. of ether olive, vegetable oil, but the best sunflower oil (this is what I use)

Ice cold water

Salt

Sweet paprika - you can do without it, but it counter -acts the sourness of the yoghurt if you add it in

Clean the cucumbers from skin and seeds, you can ether slice them really fine or grind them to little pc's.

Cut the dill really fine

Chop the clove of garlic, if you can do almost paste like – the best

Mix cucumber, salt, oil, garlic and dill

Mix yoghurt with ice water 3:1, mix really well until smooth

Add the mixture of cucumber, oil, garlic, dill and salt, mix well.

Check for salt

Put in refrigerator overnight. If you do not have time to cool it overnight, just reduce cold water and add some crushed ice to it, it will melt into yoghurt and make it cold

Before serving, mix one more time until it’s smooth.

Serve in a dish the way it is, but you can add crushed walnut and sweet paprika in moderation

Fried Chicken livers with fresh Vidalia Onions

You know, the Vidalia onions are so good raw.  They do not have this pongee aroma of regular onions, so you can eat them as they are, just sliced with a little bit of salt.

This is a recipe from Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarian sweet onion was similar in taste to Vidalia .

There was a snack bar right in the center of town, where this dish was served.

So, this is what we need for 2 people

1 pound of chicken livers ( organic preferably)

½ of large sweet Vidalia onion sliced

Salt and black pepper

Frying oil – I use vegetable oil

Fry the livers in oil with salt and pepper until done and put in a dish.  Put freshly sliced Vidalia over  it.

Enjoy!

P.S. If you add cold beer to it, you will enjoy it even more!