Raita - Indian salad with yoghurt dressing

Cooking time: 5 min. / 0 min.Difficulty: easy

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Raita is a yoghurt dressing used for traditional Indian salad of the same name. The basic of the salad, except for the yoghurt, usually is red onion with some of following vegetables like cucumber, capsicum, tomato or their combination. The salad you can see on the picture are mainly onions and just a few tomatoes.

Process

This is gonna be a very simple recipe :) Mix all ingredients and serve chilled with other Indian dishes like dosas, curries .......

 

Ingredients

For 4 portions:

  • 1 cup natural white yoghurt
  • 2 red onions cut on strings
  • 2 tomatoes diced (or 1 peeled cucumber diced or other kind of vegetable)
  • 1/2 tsp coriander powder
  • 1/2 tsp cumin powder
  • salt to taste
  • 1 green chili chopped (optional)
  • handful cilantro chopped (optional)
  • Vegetable vendor on the street of India - by Authentic World Food
  • Yoghurt (curd) sold on traditional market in India - by Authentic World Food
  • Morning mist over Pushkar in Rajasthan, India - by Authentic World Food

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