I had once in Majorca but i think it might be greek. It's used as a dipping sauce for bread & it looks like houmos but is not. It has alot of olive oil, garlic.
( could it have been a disguised houmos!!?) hmmm.....
2006-12-26 06:52:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
it didn't have cucumbers ,I think taramasalater has them!
2006-12-26 07:16:32 · update #1
Thank you guys, i think Tahini & Baba Ganoush sound about right. it had a more liquid consistency than houmos. I'll check them out thank you.
2006-12-26 11:09:57 · update #2
Thank you so much Vegon, I ddn't tatse any potatoes in it but will give it a try, might be that.
2006-12-27 05:23:41 · update #3
I know the exact stuff you're talking about.
It's Skorthalia (Skordalia), a Greek mashed potato dip where the potatoes are worked to a smooth texture and it's totally delicious.
In Greek: σκορδαλιά pronounced skor-thal-YAH
Ingredients are: potatoes, vinegar, garlic (lots), and olive oil.
A variation is made by using stale bread soaked in water and squeezed of excess water instead of potatoes.
Skordalia is a Greek garlic sauce that appears around the Mediterranean in different guises. In Greece it is used for a variety of foods including served with beet salad and batter-fried salt cod. The Palestinians and Lebanese use a version with garlic and olive oil, called thum bi’l-zayt, for baked chicken. It is related to the Catalan allioli and the rouille of Provence. Cooks in Macedonia and Cephalonia (Kefallinía) often add walnuts, and older recipes base the skordalia on almonds, leading me to believe that this is the Greek version of the Arab and Turkish tarator sauces that themselves may owe something to Byzantine food.
IT IS NOT TAHINI. YOU WILL NOT FIND TAHINI SERVED TO YOU AS A DISH IN ANY RESTAURANT, IT IS JUST SESAME SEED PASTE AND IS ONLY ADDED TO OTHER THINGS LIKE HUMUS OR EGGPLANT DIP.
As I said above it is SKORDALIA!!
Oh, the eggplant thing -
Melitzana Salata (mel-its- zan -na sal- ah -ta): Eggplant salad. Like Babaganoush in the middle east. Eaten on bread.
2006-12-26 11:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by Vegon 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It could be what the Lebanese call "Baba Ganoush" but in Greek shops in the UK is called Aubergine Dip, so don't know the true Greek word. Roasted aubergines, olive oil, garlic, tahina, a little yoghurt, a little lemon juice - could that be it ?
2006-12-26 09:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Taramasalata is smoked cods roe, it's pink and fishy! Humous is chick peas whizzed up with olive oil and garlic, tzatziki is cucumber and plain yoghurt, the other greek dip is tahini, that's seasame seeds with olive oil and garlic
2006-12-26 07:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by merciasounds 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it might have been flageolet beens whizzed up with garlic, salt and pepper and lemon juice. And olive oil.
Tsatziki is with cucumbers.
Taramasalata is with cod roe.
Hope that is sorted. Happy Christmas - what is left of it and happy new year! You have just given me an idea!
2006-12-26 07:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by zakiit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
taramasalater. thats what it sounds like.
2006-12-26 07:12:54 · answer #5 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋