Healthy Afghan yogurt sauce

Here’s something good from Afghanistan, this easy recipe for a low calorie, but tasty, yogurt sauce. Eat with lamb meat, bread or even with fries, instead of mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

• 250 ml (8.5 fl.oz.) Greek, Turkish or Bulgar yogurt, preferably the Greek yogurt from Total with 0% fat(!)
• About 8 pièces of garlic
• 50 gram (1.8 oz.) of fresh dill
• A few spoons of olive oil

Chop the garlic and dill in very small pieces and put them in a bowl together with the yogurt and olive oil. Add some black pepper and stir well. You can add some more dill and garlic according to taste.

Great with Lebanese bread or Turkish kofte!

Buon appetito!

Nicoise salad with grilled tuna steak

Whenever you order a salad Nicoise at the French riviera you will get a salad with canned tuna. The salad Nicoise has its origins here, so actually that’s the way it was meant to be. But as the French riviera lies along the same Mediterranean shores as countries like Greece and Lebanon, where they prefer to grill there fish, I thought to take a more Mediterranean approach to this classic recipe.

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