I don’t know about you but I love dips. I love dipping bread, food, veggies, and meats in all sorts of dips. A couple of my favourites are Guacamole and Tzatziki so I was extremely excited to find that Cat Cora mixed these two together and made an avocado Tzatziki. Even better, she paired it with pork skewers and pork was what I had taken out of the freezer for dinner. I did some slight changes but in the end the combination was beautiful.

 

Avocado Tzatziki

Ingredients

 

  • 1/2cup extra virgin Olive Oil (I used only 1 tbsp)
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic (one large clove)
  • 1/2lemon juiced
  • 2 cups plain yogurt (I used Greek)
  • 1 cup peeled, seeded, grated cucumber ( I used probably 2/3 cup)
  • 1 whole avocado
  • Salt and pepper to taste

 

Add lemon, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper to yogurt. Add grated cucumber, diced avocado (or squeezed out of the peel) and mix well. Chill at least one hour for flavours to meld.

 

This ends up being much lighter and a little less creamy/heavy then guacamole but much less tangy then a regular tzatziki. The cucumber is really refreshing and the avocado adds some good depth. I really liked this combination and it’s a nice change from regular tzatziki.

 

For the pork skewers I would think that a lot of marinades would work. A chilli lime, a Greek style, honey garlic, but I stuck to Cat’s recipe and made a citrus style marinade.

 

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1/4cup fresh lemon
  • 1/4 cup lime (she used orange juice, I didn’t have any)
  • 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • Salt and pepper

 

Add all ingredients together and whisk. Put cubed pork and let marinade in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.

Cat Cora showed her skewers having pieces of citrus fruits along with the pork to give it extra zest but I didn’t do that. I like to fill mine as full as I possibly can with meat. I you could eat this in a pita with lettuce and the avocado tzatziki. We had ours with Spanish style rice and dipped out pork right into the sauce.