STEEMIT IRON CHEF 2021 ACT 1 ROUND 07 : CUCUMBER TZATZIKI 2.0!!!

Hello my dear Steemit friends!

I hope you all have had a great week with the theme of the week set up by @progressivechef for the 7th round of Steemit Iron Chef!

From my side, it was not such a busy week but looks like this coming week I will surely be very busy - specially it is the end of month, so we will get a lot of guests at our restaurant.

This week, I even got time to go for fishing with the chef - it's been long we did not meet!

So yes, coming back to this week's theme, I have the pleasure to show you what I did with the cucumber - CHECK IT OUT!!!

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CUCUMBER TZATZIKI 2.0

Tzatziki is a classic food and here I tried to add my little touch to it and make it a little bit attractive - Hope you like it!

I kept my dish vegetarian so that anyone can try and enjoy it!

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Ingredients List

• Cucumber / Tomato / Apple / Garlic / Starfruit
• Lettuces / Mint / Yogurt / Olive Oil / Gherkins

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I started by cutting the white cucumber in small brunoise and season with salt - this is to extract the maximum of water from the cucumber.

Then I finely chopped garlic and cut some fresh mint leaves.

After 10 minutes, I pressed the cucumbers to take off maximum of water.

Then I added the yogurt, garlic, mint and olive oil - Mix everything well together, check the seasoning!

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Next I sliced the green cucumbers as you can see in the below photo!

And prepared the rest of the garnishes that will go on my plating!

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Plating time!!!

Make some cannelloni with the sliced cucumbers and stuff with some of the tzatziki...

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Place the remaining tzatziki at the bottom of your serving plate...

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Then delicately put the cannelloni on top of the tzatziki.

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Then Freestyle...

And then as usual I did the plating freestyle based and delicately put the rest of the garnishes...

Enjoy the food photography now...

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Proof Photo

Not to forget the proof photo to validate my entry...

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Just before serving this dish, you just need to add some virgin olive oil and some rock salt - perfect salad!

I really had a lot of fun plating this dish - not always easy to make a tzatziki looks nice!

I hope you've enjoy my entry for this 7th round.

Once I get some time, I will check out the entries from my other friends of SIC - I am sure you are also doing some great plates!

Wish everyone best of luck!
See you all next round now!

@niven