Greek Yogurt Tartar Sauce is lighter, creamy, tangy and delicious with all your seafood dishes or roasted vegetables!
I love traditional tartar sauce with not only fish and chips and crab cakes, so I just had to create a healthy tartar sauce with Greek yogurt. This recipe has been on iFoodReal since 2017 and it doesn’t disappoint!
It’s one of those sauces that goes with almost anything! Just see serving suggestions below.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Lighter: Make with 0% or 2% Greek yogurt, it’s low fat and low carie.
- Quick: This dip takes 5 minutes to make. No chilling is necessary.
- Enjoy for days: It keeps well in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Ingredients for Greek Yogurt Tartar Sauce
I would like you to remember that ingredients for this Greek yogurt tartar sauce are highly customizable! So make it any time, with what you have on hand and to suit your personal taste.
- Greek yogurt and mayo: Traditionally, tartar sauce is made with a big cup of mayo. I used 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt and only 3 tablespoons of mayo. I could use even 2 tablespoons because tartar sauce turned out so creamy from yogurt, and yet light in saturated fat.
- Onion: Red onion or white onion are more mild but in a pinch yellow onion will work too.
- Pickles: I believe quality pickles make the tartar sauce. Use dill pickles or gherkins. Don’t use neon green sweet pickles.
- Capers: You don’t have to rinse the capers but be sure to drain. You can also skip them if not a fan or in a pinch.
- Garlic: Fresh garlic is the best but 1 teaspoon of garlic powder will work as well.
- Fresh dill: It’s optional ingredient as amount is small, only if you have it. I think I would skip the dried dill weed but it’s up to you.
- Sugar: Anything like any dry sugar, maple syrup or honey. To add sweetness and take off the edge from tartness of Greek yogurt.
- Acid: I used fresh lemon juice. You can use any light vinegar you like the taste of like apple cider vinegar, white vinegar or white wine vinegar. Or do half and half with lemon juice.
- Ground black pepper
How to Make Greek Yogurt Tartar Sauce
Here’s a quick overview how to make this healthy tartar sauce. I like to use a food processor but you can also mince everything by hand and stir in a bowl.
Add pickles, capers, onion, garlic and dill to a food processor to chop. Or chop them by hand. Food processor worked like a charm for chopping firm ingredients.
Then transfer them to a bowl and mix with Greek yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, sugar and pepper. That’s it!
Recipe Tip
I tried to add yogurt and mayo to the food processor after chopping the ingredients and tartar sauce came out a bit runny. However, it has thickened back within an hour in the fridge. So, I recommend to mix it by hand!
Serving
In my world, tartar sauce has so many uses beyond the seafood. I call it a substitute for the universal ketchup!
You can dip canned salmon cakes or any fried or grilled seafood into it, spread on grilled salmon or on salmon burgers. Serve on top of fish tacos!
I love to dip French fries, air fryer sweet potato fries or crispy Parmesan potatoes into it, so good! It’s a great condiment for baked zucchini fritters as well!
Try it with air fryer cauliflower or roasted cauliflower.
Move over sour cream! Top you piping hot Instant Pot baked potato with it, it’s fantastic!
Serve with Greek turkey burgers in a bowl form or dip Buffalo chicken bites into it.
FAQs
You can use any fat % yogurt. The higher the fat, the creamier is the sauce. However, because we also add a bit of mayonnaise, you can still have creamy tartar sauce made even with non-fat Greek yogurt.
You may. In this case, I recommend to use at least 2% fat Greek yogurt and be prepared for more tart taste.
If you want to have a thick tartar sauce, I recommend to stick to Greek yogurt. However, if you are OK with more runny sauce like consistency, feel free to use plain regular yogurt.
More Sauce Recipes to Try
- Greek yogurt blue cheese dressing
- Healthy ranch dressing
- Healthy alfredo sauce
- Basil pesto
- Peanut sauce
- Chimichurri sauce
- Healthy honey mustard
- Healthy Caesar dressing
- Spicy mustard
Greek Yogurt Tartar Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 2 small dill pickles
- 1 tablespoon red or white onion
- 1 medium garlic clove
- 1 small dill sprig optional
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt I used 2%
- 2-3 tablespoons mayo
- 1 teaspoon any sugar I used maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice or any light vinegar
- Pinch ground black pepper
Instructions
- In a food processor, add capers, pickles, onion, garlic and dill. Process until finely chopped, pausing and scraping the walls once.
- Transfer to a medium bowl along with Greek yogurt, mayo, sugar, lemon juice, pepper and stir. Alternatively you can finely chop all ingredients and mix by hand.
- Enjoy right away with seafood and vegetable dishes of choice or refrigerate for later.
This was great! Even my picky family liked it! I have a mayo based tartar sauce recipe I like, but this one is so much healthier.
I didn’t have capers on hand so I used chopped green olives as a substitute and it still turned out well. I’ll have to remember to buy capers specifically for this recipe. (I also used dry dill because it’s what I had in the kitchen, and I’m a big fan of it.)
So happy you loved it! Green olives work too, anything pickled and green. Thank you for the rating!
Using horseradish idea on my fish sandwich and I have capers to. I think I will make it a couple different ways and have it often during lent
Hey I made this one with store bought greek yogurt…all I can say is YUM!
Then I made it again with my homemade greek yogurt…Hands down, way better!
Homemade yogurt is the best!
needed to make a quick tartar sauce with yogurt and found this on the internet.
It was delicious. I didn’t have any mayo at all, so when I used the yogurt, I didn’t use the
separated watery portion, just the solid yogurt. I used some relish instead of pickles. Very good and not watery at all.
Yay! So happy to hear this Theresa!
This is excellent, much better flavour and texture than store-bought, no nasty additives. I’ve been making double batches because my husband puts it on everything (and he thinks he doesn’t like capers).
Too funny on the capers! Glad you are enjoying the sauce!
I had sweet relish on hand which I used in place of the capers and pickles and left the rest the same. It was such a delicious addition to our baked fish and wedges! Thank you! 🙂
Perfecto.
I use all Greek yogurt in my tartar sauce. Try adding horseradish. It makes it absolutely amazing.
Yes. Amazing idea!!! Love it just don’t have it on hand often.
Delicious and easy to make. Have made this several times.
Oh yay! Super stoked to hear someone tried my Greek yogurt tartar sauce. Been sitting here forever, this amazingness. Happy Easter, Brenda!