A spicy yogurt-based dressing great on salads, cooked vegetables, or in fish tacos…

By Jeanie Rose | Oregano

Jun 23

A spicy yogurt-based dressing great on salads, cooked vegetables, or in fish tacos...One morning on our Facebook page, Kandy Inglis listed the ingredients she uses in making a white sauce for fish tacos. I was intrigued. Jalepeños and capers together? A new one for me. Both of these with yogurt? Stretch! Stretch! I love all the ingredients singly. What would they taste like sitting together in the same bowl?

Kandy kindly offered to send me the measurements on these ingredients if I was interested. I almost accepted her offer and then thought about how I would just change the proportions anyway. I almost always do. You may too.

I scooped, mixed, and chopped, tasting gingerly after each addition. My, my, what a sauce! I could not wait until dinner time. Amanda and I had chicken and dried tomato whip-up on home-made flat bread topped with the spicy yogurt sauce.

When our plates were clean and I was still licking my fingers, Amanda called Sander who was still in town. We needed him to bring home a pack of corn tortillas so we could try Kandy’s core idea: fish tacos. We didn’t want to miss any opportunities with this splendid sauce! It is light and bright, blending with both chicken and fish to make them sing. This is a sauce you could use as a dressing on bean salads, cooked beets, or any of the dense root vegetables. Use it instead of tartar sauce for baked fish. It is very versatile!

Here is Kandy’s sauce with a couple of adjustments to fit the family palette. You will make adjustments too, I’m sure. Get going on this recipe and you will probably get quite creative.

Spicy Yogurt Dressing Ingredients

A spicy yogurt-based dressing great on salads, cooked vegetables, or in fish tacos...

  • 1 1/2 cups plain yogurt
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 large jalapeño pepper, seeded and finely minced
  • 1 heaping tablespoon capers
  • 1 finely minced garlic clove
  • juice of 1 lime
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 heaping tablespoon fresh dill, minced
  • 2 teaspoons sweet oregano, finely minced

Spicy Yogurt Dressing Steps

  1. Mix all ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
  2. Check for salt and check for heat. Kandy suggests adding cayenne pepper.

By the time I had added the jalapeño, we had reached out heat limit. You can decide for yourself. Any leftover sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for four or five days. You will find plenty of uses for the leftovers.

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Becky Jones
Becky Jones
11 years ago

I love yogurt. Any kind of it. But I don’t think I’ll like it with spicy stuff. is it delish? Or should I try it and see for myself? Well, guess I have to try^^

Mercury
11 years ago

yogurt is my favorite, I am definitely going to try this one, thanks 🙂

Sarah
11 years ago

I love yogurt and I love jalepeno in anything that goes well with it but I’ve never had jalepenos with yogurt before. Your post has me very intrigued and I will probably be trying this, mostly out of curiosity. Who knows, maybe it will become a new favorite for me.

Barry Anderson
10 years ago

Great recipe and thanks for sharing . I am posting it on my face book. I would like if I may make some comments on the yogurt part of the recipe. It is really to bad that the dairy industry is forcing todays unnatural artificially sweetened yogurts onto us today. And to make matters worse when yogurt is pasteurized the biological pro biotic friendly bacteria is lacking compared to a raw organic yogurt that is almost impossible to find these days. Our forefathers ate the raw organic yogurts without the antibiotics ,synthetic growth hormones and their yogurts where grass feed… Read more »

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