Falafal Salad w/homemade Tzatziki

This salad was so Yummy that I HAD to share the recipe.
First of all I had some tzatziki that I had made earlier in the week you can get that recipe here
FYI this is an individual serving.

What you will need -

1 cup of torn Romain lettuce
5 Grape tomatoes halved
3 white button mushrooms sliced
1/4 cup of prepared couscous (follow the instructions on the box)
1/4 of a cucumber diced
1 small sprinkle of crumbled feta cheese
3 falafals (pre-packaged Trader Joe's)
and a tiny handful of fresh flat leaf parsley, also known as Italian parsley.

What you will do-

Throw the Romain lettuce in the bottom of the bowl, then on one side pile in the prepared couscous, on the side without the couscous throw in the rest of the veggies, feta, and parsley then top with the tzatziki. Put the three falafal on top of the veggies and then take a photo! Lastly, mix it all together and enjoy!

Tawnya's Tzatziki Recipe

First step, and what makes mine unique:

I grow my own green onions then I slice about 3 stalks of them and then sauteé them before I cool them and then add them to the Cuisinart with the other ingredients.

This is:

16oz of Trader Joe's Plain Greek Yogurt, strained through a cheese cloth to get rid of the extra moisture.
1 cucumber partly skinned but I keep the seeds some people don't, then rough chopped
a small handful (about 10) grape tomatoes
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp lemon zest (optional, if you don't have a lemon replace with cider viengar, or if you don't have cider vinegar, throw caution to the wind and just use any acid (except balsalmic vinegar, its too sweet and syrupy, also, you don't need to add any zest if its not available just focus on the juice lemon or a vinegar).
a bit of course ground pepper and 1/8th of a teaspoon of siracha
I throw in a tablespoon of feta for creaminess and for salt then after I blend it, I add salt to taste.
Fresh herbs are important in this one I used a bit of fresh basil with a touch of cilantro. For that fresh taste and for the look.
at this point our green onions are cooled and should be added as well.


 Pulse the Cuisinart until your preferred consistency, I like creamy but chunky












And this is what you're left with.






Now this is a little step outside of traditional tzatziki but it still uses traditional flavors and its SO good! :)

Mark's Tzatziki Recipe

- 1 cucumber.

(Cut in half, scrape our seeds with spoons Finely grate cucumber, then strip out all water that you can either with hands or small strainer) - 1 clove garlic pressed - 2 tablespoons EVOO - 1 cup plain greek style yogurt. Low fat if possible. - 1 healthy pinch of salt, maybe 2 - Juice of 1/2 lemon - Bunch of dill weed Toss it all in a baby food processor, blend, refrigerate, enjoy :)