Sides, sauces & preserves

Skyr sauce

Ingredients

  • ½ cucumber, grated
  • 1 tsp salt (For mixing with the cucumber.)
  • 1 tub skyr (or thick Greek yoghurt), plain, unsweetened (One tub; Icelandic skyr is a thick, tangy fresh dairy product.)
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 10 mint leaves, chopped
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Mix the grated cucumber with the 1 tsp salt and leave for a few minutes, then squeeze out the liquid.
  2. Stir the cucumber into the skyr with the garlic and mint, and season with salt and pepper.
  3. Leave to stand for 1 hour before serving.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Skyrsósa.
1/2 Rif agúrka + 1 tsk. salt > Bl. sm 1 dós ósætt skyr - 2 hvítlauksg. 10 blöð mynta. Salt + pipar
standa í 1 klst. áður en bor.