Raita

Name: Raita
Yield: Makes 200 ml
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon sugar; 150 ml thick natural yoghurt; a pinch of ground cumin; 2 tablespoons roughly chopped mint; ½ teaspoon sea salt; 200 g cucumber

Preparation info

Makes
200 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paul Gayler's Sauce Book

By Paul Gayler

Published 2015

About

A soothing, yoghurt-based sauce, ideal to temper hot dishes such as curries. In India it accompanies almost every dish.

Ingredients

200 g cucumber
½ teaspoon sea salt
150 ml

Asia
India
Side dish
Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Grate the cucumber into a bowl, using a hand grater, add the salt and mix well. Spread the cucumber out on a tea towel, gather up the towel and squeeze out all the excess moisture.
Put the cucumber in a bowl and add the yoghurt, sugar, mint and cumin. Mix well and chill until ready to serve.