This Zucchini Dip with yogurt and walnuts is a super tasty mezze that you can serve as an appetizer at parties. Easy to make and a great way to include zucchini in your diet.
This zucchini recipe is one of our favorite dips. Just like many Turkish mezzes, it is both super healthy and tasty! We love to serve it as a side dish with meat or chicken.

Flavors in it are enough to tempt you to go buy a small bottle of raki. Your mouth starts to water even when preparing it, especially at the step when you mix mashed garlic with yogurt. You don't need any other meze on your table if you have this. If you are not a raki person, no problem. You will still be addicted to this zucchini mezze and you will find your way to eat it. To give you an idea, spreading a generous amount of this zucchini dip in your sandwich is still another great way to use it. You can then place your favorite ingredients for sandwich and enjoy! Believe me it's as good as mayonnaise, even better in sandwiches.
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Zucchini Dip Mezze
Zucchini and garlicky yogurt make the best combination for this dip mezze.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Cooking
- Cuisine: Turkish
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 2 zucchinis
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup strained yogurt
- 1 clove garlic, mashed
- ¼ cup walnut, crumbled
- ½ bunch of fresh dill, chopped
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Grate zucchinis and squeeze their water with your hands or putting them in a cheese cloth.
- Heat olive oil and saute grated zucchini stirring occasionaly for about 10 minutes. Put it aside to chill.
- Add little water in strained yogurt to loosen.
- Mix it with salt, walnut, mashed garlic and chopped fresh dill.
- Wait it in refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes. Serve cold.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 195
- Sugar: 5.5 g
- Sodium: 614.7 mg
- Fat: 15.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 7.2 g
- Protein: 8.8 g
- Cholesterol: 9.3 mg
Keywords: zucchini dip, zucchini dip recipe
Touria says
tnx for this lovely recipe. I tried it and it was so delicious you can see it here
Zerrin says
Hi Touria! Nice to see you here again! Hope you're fine! Your zucchini mezze looks so good! Thanks for linking my recipe!
Annette newton says
How good to find this sight,we go to Turkey often it's our second home and love the food so much so I can try it out here now thank you Annette
Gcroft says
Love this recipe - fab way to use up courgettes!
Eftychia says
Another delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing.
Turkey's For Life says
This looks lovely. A friend of ours made something similar last winter but she used celeriac. I didn't think I liked celeriac till that night. It was a treat. Never thought of doing it with courgettes. Will give it a try.
Julia
Katherine Martinelli says
This looks delicious! I love zucchini and I love mezze so it seems like a match made in heaven!
Monet says
This recipe looks wonderful...and I have all the ingredients I need! Thank you for making me smile. I love visiting your blog before I head to work. It is a great start to my long day. Much love and many blessings from Austin!
Peggy says
I love the idea of spreading this on sandwiches! Gonna have to give this one a try =)
marla says
Love that you put the walnuts in this!
Erin @ Dinners, Dishes and Desserts says
I love zucchini! This almost reminds me of chicken salad in America, but using zucchini instead of chicken. Great recipe!
Joanne says
What an interesting recipe. I'd love to try that. I've always thought of zucchini as more Fallish than summer. Maybe in NY it is more of a late season squash.