If you live in an Afghan home, you will have afghan yogurt sauce at almost every meal. And, once you’ve had it, you will do the same. The Afghan yogurt sauce is cool, creamy, sour, and deliciously herbal. It pairs well with both veggies and meat alike.
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Afghan food is not generally very spicy. But, our dishes are quite rich. Fatty lamb, tender beef, and chicken every where. We have multiple sauces and side dishes that help cut those rich dishes. Even our vegetable dish are rich. That is recipes like this Afghan yogurt sauce, and our cilantro chutney come in handy.
Although not required, if you can get your hands on some Afghan kashk, it will make for a special Afghan yogurt sauce. Kashk is made from drained yogurt (in particular, drained qatiq) or drained sour milk by shaping it and letting it dry. It can be made in a variety of forms, like rolled into balls, sliced into strips, and formed into chunks.
Make this! You will use it for everything – on top of soups, salads, chicken sandwiches, as a dip, as a companion for a Saturday walk or a Sunday drive. Seriously. We will be using this for many recipes on Afghan Cooks (or some variation of this.) So make up a batch!
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Afghan Garlic Yogurt Sauce
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Make this! You will use it for everything – on top of soups, salads, chicken sandwiches, as a dip, as a companion for a Saturday walk or a Sunday drive. Seriously. We will be using this for many recipes on Afghan Cooks (or some variation of this.) So make up a batch!
Ingredients
Yogurt
Sour cream (optional)
Kashk (optional)
4–5 cloves garlic minced
salt
lemon juice
water
dill
mint
Instructions
The only real instruction here is this – make this according to your taste. If you only have yogurt here are the proportions for 2 cups
Stir together 2 cups yogurt, 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1 tbsp dill, 1 tbsp mint, pinch of salt and garlic. Stir together. Add water until the sauce can be drizzled. If you want it thicker, use less water. We make a very thin version of this and keep it in a squeeze bottle.
You can mix the yogurt with sour cream and/or kashk if you can find it. The rest of the ingredients are the same but its important for you to taste it and add more or less mint, lemon juice, dill and salt depending on your own taste. Taste taste taste! this Afghan yogurt sauce will please the entire family.
- Prep Time: 10
- Category: Sauce
- Cuisine: Afghan
Made some to accompany the Borani Badoo and it was a fantastic addition to the dish. Kept well in the fridge for a number of other meals and snacks too
I just discovered your delightful YouTube channel, and I am excited to try more recipes! I started with this one today to accompany the borani kadoo. Yum!
Yay! I hope you make the dishes and tag me on Instagram!
Very easy to make, and it really does taste great with the other dishes! An inspired accompaniment 🙂
Incredibly versatile, easy to make, and literally good on almost anything!
An added benefit is that it’s so healthy.
Adjust proportions to your Taste.
Thanks!
I am excited to try this! Do you use fresh or dried dill and mint?
Either is fine!
I want to put this on everything. Immersion blender made it a lot easier to achieve a good drizzle factor
I tried this recipe using cashew yogurt to make it vegan and it was absolutely delicious! Thank you for sharing it.