Summer is here officially, it is tough to stay inside with out Air-conditioning. Outdoors are very sweaty and not to mention the crazy climate over here, Morning it was dusty, hazy Sand-storm and evening it is raining like crazy!!!! So, these days a raita or simple chopped cucumbers are sure in our daily meal. Made this Raita for my Hubby’s Lunch-box last week to go along with Roti and Side-dish. An Easy to make summer coolant. A Perfect combo to One-pot meals and Stuffed Parathas.
Ingredients
1 medium-sized cucumber
1 medium-sized carrot
1 medium-sized onion
1 medium-sized Tomato
1 medium-sized Tomato
1 green chilli, Chopped fine
1 tsp shredded ginger
1/2 Cup Yogurt
a pinch of red chilli powder
a pinch of cumin powder
few Coriander leaves for garnishing
few Coriander leaves for garnishing
Salt to taste
Method
- Wash, Peel and chop Cucumber and Carrot thinly. Chop Onion and Tomato Finely. Take all the veggies in a bowl.
- To this bowl, add chopped green chili, shredded ginger and mix well.
- Whisk the Yogurt well, add it to the veggie bowl. Stir to combine. Refrigerate until use.
- Add salt just before serving.
Notes
- If packing this raita for lunch, make hung curd instead of yogurt. Take the yogurt in a strainer and leave it for an hour or two for all the whey to strain out. Then add the veggies n keep the salt separately.
- You can Mix and Match your veggies here, the aim is to have Fresh/raw Veggies with all its Nutrients as such. You can even add Capsicum to this.
Perfect raita to pair with veg pulao/Biryani.Adding ginger is new to me..will give it a try
Want to finish off that bowl Priya…
That's super tasty Raitha…
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Wow! Looks amazing..
lovely delicious and perfect raita.
nice presentation & click
Now I need a plateful of pulav with it . Yum
Nice click.. And a cool side dish 😀
looks delicious n inviting!!
An excellent side dish for hot spicy pulaos, lovely presentation and healthy raita definitely.
Delicious vegetable raita. I love it.
Prefect for summer…the new look to the blog is nice.