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Omavalli Raita| Ajwain leaves yogurt dip

Oct 14, 2020 · Modified: Dec 21, 2020 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

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Omavalli raita, a yogurt dip made with fresh ajwain leaves, cucumber and creamy yogurt. A simple and easy to make side-dish, that pairs excellent with one-pot meals.

Raita is a yogurt dip, quite popular in Asian cuisine. A side-dish made with creamy yogurt and chopped veggies or greens or even fruits. I have quite a variety of raita/yogurt dips in my blog.

Omavalli raita

Raita varieties

  • Coriander & Mint raita
  • Green grapes raita
  • Mixed vegetable raita

Raita is an easy to make condiment that pairs well with one pot meals. Whenever i make mixed rice or biriyani, i make a simple raita and serve it along with some papad. The usual raita contains, chopped cucumber, onions, roasted cumin powder and salt. The rest of the spices or ingredients added is according to one own's interest.

Omavalli is known as Karpooravalli in south-indian household. Most of us have a small plant of this aromatic and useful herb at home. The plant doesn't need much care and grows like hell with little watering and lot of sunlight.

ajwain leaves

This small and useful herb comes handy when you have a mild cold and cough. The leaves have a slight astringent taste, which might bring a weird expression to our faces. I love to include these leaves in my regular cooking. I make a delicious ajwain leaves rasam, chutney and recently started including in one-pot meals like mint for aroma.

Omavalli raita, my recent experiment with fresh ajwain leaves. As i said the leaves have a astringent flavor, so not many can eat it fresh. But when mixed with yogurt and spices, they taste perfect and balanced. Both my kiddos loved the raita when i served with simple khichdi.

One-Pot meals

  • Cauliflower, paneer & peas pulao
  • Coriander & mint pulao
  • Moong Ketchir/moong dal khichdi

The Ingredients

  • Yogurt, I have used full fat yogurt for the raita. You can also use low-fat yogurt, as a personal preference
  • Cucumber, i have used fresh lebanese cucumbers.
  • Omavalli or ajwain leaves or Indian borage, these are the star ingredient in the recipe. Fresh and tender ajwain leaves is used for the raita
  • Cumin, salt and chili powder, these are the common spices needed for the raita.
Khichdi and raita

Omavalli Raita | Ajwain leaves raita

Omavalli raita, is a yogurt dip made with fresh ajwain leaves, cucumber and creamy yogurt. A simple and easy to make side-dish, that pairs excellent with One-pot meals.
5 from 9 votes
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Course: Condiments, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Asian, Indian
Keyword: A quick raita recipe, Ajwain leaves raita recipe, Ajwain leaves recipe, An easy raita recipe, coriander raita, yogurt dip
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories:

Ingredients

  • 500 grams full fat yogurt you can also use low-fat yogurt
  • 2 nos lebanese cucumbers
  • 10-12 nos fresh and tender ajwain leaves
  • ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
  • ¾ teaspoon salt or to taste
  • ¼ teaspoon red chili flakes

Instructions

  • Take Full fat yogurt in a serving bowl and whisk well. Peel and chop cucumbers into small cubes.
  • Add the chopped cucumbers to the whisked yogurt and mix well.
  • Take fresh and tender ajwain leaves. Heat a tava, add a teaspoon of oil, add the ajwain leaves and saute until they wilt. this is will take 5-8 minutes. Once the leaves wilted, add cumin seeds and saute for a 30 seconds.
  • Take the wilted ajwain leaves and cumin seeds in a mortar-pestle and grind it to a paste. I prefer mortar-pestle, you can also mixie.
  • Remove the ground paste of ajwain leaves and add it to the cucumber yogurt, add salt and mix well.
  • Finally garnish it with red chili flakes and serve it along one-pot meals.

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Serve this fresh and zingy omavalli raita with your favorite one-pot meals. I served this delicious omavalli raita with Khichdi for our lunch.

Omavalli raita with khichdi

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Some interesting Omavalli recipes

  • Omavalli chutney
  • Omavalli Paruppu kadayal/Dal
  • Mooligai kuzhambu

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  1. Bless my food by Payal

    October 16, 2020 at 12:35 am

    5 stars
    Ajwain is a regular ingredient in our cooking but using its leaves is an awesome idea. I am sure that not just taste but leaves will be providing a unique aroma to the raita.

    Reply
  2. Pavani

    October 21, 2020 at 7:12 am

    5 stars
    That is such a healthy and delicious raita recipe. I have never tried omavalli - will have to see if I can get a plant to grow it myself.

    Reply
  3. Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth

    October 21, 2020 at 9:17 am

    5 stars
    I have always wondered what this plant is... Love the way its leaves looks with a light hairy coating... The raita looks absolutely cooling!

    Reply
  4. Lata Lala

    October 21, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    5 stars
    Using Ajwain leaves to make pakoda is a regular in our kitchen but using its leaves to make raita along with cucumbers is an awesome idea.

    Reply
  5. Poonam bachhav

    October 21, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    5 stars
    I also have Ajwain herb grown in my potted plant and I make fritters with it. Adding the leaves to Cucumber raita is brilliant!

    Reply
  6. Mayuri Patel

    October 21, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    5 stars
    When we lived at the big house with a garden we had several ajwain plants. I use to use the leaves to make bhajia and also would prepare a ajwain water for ailments. Your omavalli raita is tempting me to grow ajwain in a pot so I taste this interesting raita.

    Reply
  7. Uma Srinivas

    October 22, 2020 at 12:47 am

    5 stars
    Never had ajwain leaves raita. sounds healthy and nutritious. Yes, this will be perfect to pair with spicy rice dishes.

    Reply
  8. Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey

    October 24, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    Ajwain is good to digest any heavy food, and we love using it in our cooking but never tried it's leaves. Would love to have this raita for sure.

    Reply
  9. Sandhya Ramakrishnan

    October 24, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    5 stars
    What a great idea to use the omavalli leaves. I always have a omavalli plant at home and look for ideas to use it. Sounds so flavorful with mixed rice and biriyani.

    Reply
  10. Padma Veeranki

    October 28, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    I have never tried ajwain leaves in raita..I'm sure it tasted great!! Would love to try this raita for sure!!

    Reply
  11. Lathiya

    November 03, 2020 at 3:06 am

    5 stars
    This is something new to me. I have heard karpooravalli rasam but never raita. Healthy, easy and delicious side.

    Reply

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