Eating Healthy with Tzatziki

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Hey there. We're back, fermented foods. And, that's me Lisa La Barr. I've got a little something for you. We're going to do a fun little recipe on Tzatziki, which is actually a Greek condiment. And it includes a fermented food, yogurt. And, you just add some other ingredients with it. Ok, so basically you can add a bunch of different ingredients to Tzatziki. Some of them are, cucumber which is the basis of all Tzatziki. I love cucumber too. It's so nice and cooling to the system. And, here in the United States we to tend to get more hot kind of constitutions. So, adding cucumber to things actually helps cool you down. And, surprisingly enough it's anti-inflammatory. Especially, for something that doesn't have really a lot of nutrient value as far as our western thoughts are concerned. So, this is the reason why in Greece they do add it to the food. It balances with the garlic, which we're going to add too. And, I'll show you an extra interesting way to actually chop up the garlic. But, garlic is more heating so it balances with the garlic and makes it even more delicious too in addition to balancing, heating and cooling foods with our nice fermentation. So, one thing that's great is what I do is I just take the garlic clove put it down on the ground and smack it like that. And, you're instantly going to be able to peel off the skin really, really easily. And, then you can start chopping it from there. There we go, it's coming. We've got it. And, as we all know the health benefits of garlic. We're putting raw garlic in here. But, we're only going to put in one clove. Although, it's a huge giant one. But, it gives it a lot more flavor. And, also I said it's more traditional for Greek. Ok, great. So, we've got our garlic all chopped up. And, we know all the health benefits with garlic. Right? It's good for your cardiovascular system, your heart which is obviously part of that. And definitely good for circulation. So, this is just the basics of Tzatziki. You can actually add dill, also. I seem to have run out today. But, that's ok. So, you can add some dill to it too. It gives it a nice little more pickled type flavor. And, definitely some salt. I like to add some good sea salt in there. Sea salt actually is great, because it also gives you other minerals besides just sodium chloride that's in table salt. Which, by itself as we know can actually raise blood pressure. But, when you have any combination of different things in sea salt you have all the minerals together. So, they work tandemly to keep your blood pressure from getting too crazy. But, obviously you don't want to have too much of a good thing either. So, we'll go ahead and just add a little bit of that. We'll mix it up. We'll put it in the refrigerator for just a couple days. And, it's good to go. You can have with meats and as a dip. It's awesome, you'll love it.

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