VEGETABLE RAITA | INDIAN YOGURT SALAD
Vegetable Raita is an easy to make Indian side dish or salad. Vegetables and a few spices are added to some plain yogurt to make this delicious dish. While you can use any vegetable of your choice, I have used tomato, cucumber and onion. You can also enjoy raita as a light meal.
Ingredients
- 1½ cup plain yogurt thick
- 1 cup cucumber finely diced
- 1 large tomato finely diced
- ¼ cup onion finely chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh coriander finely chopped
- 1 tbsp split mustard seeds optional
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- 1-2 green chillis minced or sliced
- ¼ tsp red chilli powder
Instructions
- Add yogurt to a mixing bowl.
- Add salt, sugar, cumin powder. green chilli, split mustard seeds, red chilli powder and whisk to mix it well.
- Add the chopped cucumber, tomato, coriander and onion. Mix well.
- Chill the yogurt for 30 minutes in the fridge before serving.
- Enjoy raita with some biryani, with your favourite curry or as a light meal.
Notes
- Add vegetables of your choice like bell pepper, carrot, radish, beetroot, etc
- Add spices according to your taste.
- Make sure the yogurt is not watery. We need thick yogurt for raita.
- Add fresh mint too.
- Adding split mustard seeds is optional as not everyone likes the taste of it.