Kheera Raita
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Medium recipe
Recipe yield: 4 servings
Indian Food Recipes
Kheera Raita – a national dish of Indian cuisine, which is a cold soup of grated cucumbers in mint yogurt.
Kheera Raita Ingredients
- Cucumbers 450 g
- Yogurt 350-370 ml
- Mint 1 twig
- Lemon zest 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
- Hot pepper 0,25 tsp
- Mustard seeds 1 tsp
Kheera Raita Recipe
To cook kheera raita, was the cucumbers, grate them, peel them before that, put them in a bowl, salt and let stand for 20-30 minutes.
Beat the yogurt lightly, add pepper or paprika, chopped mint, lemon zest and mix well.
Drain the cucumbers, squeeze and add to the yogurt.
Heat oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds and fry until the seeds begin to crack. Pour the oil and seeds into the yogurt-cucumber mixture, mix well and put in the cold for 2 hours. After kheera raita has cooled, pour into bowls and garnish with carved cucumbers and paprika or paprika.
