Bulgarian cold soup (tator)

Bulgarian cold soup (tator)

Traditional cold soup, popular in Bulgaria and Macedonia, is called tacitor. It is made with natural liquid yoghurt. Since what is sold under the guise of yogurt in our country has nothing to do with real Bulgarian yoghurt, it's quite possible to use yogurt or yogurt as a basis for soup.

So, to prepare a cold soup tarator, we need:

• 
  natural yogurt or kefir - 500 ml
• 
  sunflower oil - 100 ml
• 
  small cucumbers - 4 pcs.
• 
  garlic - 4 cloves
• 
  peeled walnuts - 0.5 tbsp.
• 
  dill greens - small bundle
• 
  salt to taste

We pour yogurt into a bowl and whisk with a whisk or mixer for four minutes.

Cucumbers, dried with papernapkins and cut off the tips. Cut the cucumbers into thin straws and sprinkle with salt so they let the juice. If the cucumber has a hard skin, it must be cleaned beforehand.

We peel the garlic and rub it in a mortar and a quarter of a glass of walnuts to a homogeneous mass. We add garlic-nut butter to a bowl with yogurt, pour in sunflower-seed oil and beat.

The remaining quarter of a glass of nuts and greensdill is very finely chopped. We add nuts, dill and cucumbers together with the juice to the soup. Solim to taste, mix. If the soup is too thick, we add ice-cold boiled water to it.

It is possible, together with the tarator, to serve a bowl with finely crushed ice to the table, as in Bulgaria.

Bon Appetit!