Any pulao or biryani dish is incomplete without a raita dish. This vegetable raita is the perfect accompaniment for an Indian meal. It requires some chopping and mixing, no cooking is needed.
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❤️About This Recipe
Super quick to make: Here no cooking required. So you’ll just have to chop a few mixed vegetables, mix them with yogurt and spices. Your vegetable raita is ready.
Customizable: Add the veggies that you like, skip the ones that you or your family don’t prefer.
No specific measurements required: Yes, you can add one veggie more than the rest depending on which one you like most. Or add all the vegetables in equal amounts.
A side dish for hot weather: Because yogurt has a cooling property, raita is usually consumed during the summer season.
🧾Ingredient Notes
- Yogurt: Always use chilled yogurt while making mixed veg raita. Use homemade or store-bought plain yogurt.
- Veggies: I have added onion, tomato, cucumber and bell pepper. All of them are added raw and chopped finely. You can try with grated carrot, beet, boiled or fried potato cubes, etc.
- Roasted cumin powder: This is the must-add spice powder for any raita. It adds a nice flavor to the dish.
- Black salt: It adds a unique zing to the vegetable raita. Please do not skip it.
- Herbs: I have used a mixture of cilantro and mint leaves. You can use either one or both.
👩🍳Step By Step Photo Instructions
1) Take yogurt in a bowl. Add salt, black salt, red chili powder and roasted cumin powder to the yogurt.
2) Whisk until yogurt is smooth and spices are evenly mixed.
3) Add chopped veggies (onion, tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, green chili), cilantro and mint leaves.
4) Mix everything well and serve right away.
💭Storage & Make Ahead Option:
- Always use chilled, refrigerated yogurt, as raita tastes best when served chilled.
- Storing this vegetable raita is not advisable. The onion has a sharp flavor and after storing the refrigerator it starts to smell. Plus, veggies will leave their water after storing and it makes the raita watery and runny. Plus, veggies will lose their crunch and freshness.
- If you do not care for consistency or the crunchiness of the veggies then raita can be stored for 1-2 days in the refrigerator.
- Make ahead option: If you want to make it ahead of time for guests or parties then mix the spices with yogurt and store that in an airtight container. Chop and mix the veggies and store that separately in the fridge. At the time of serving, mix both and serve.
🍽 Serving Ideas
- Serve this vegetable raita with any rice dish e.g. pulao, biryani.
- It can be served as a side dish for your paratha or any Indian meal.
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Vegetable Raita (Mixed Veg Raita)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Plain yogurt chilled
- 1 teaspoon Roasted cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon Black salt (Kala namak)
- ¼ teaspoon Black pepper powder
- ¼ teaspoon Red chili powder
- Salt to taste
- ¼ cup Red onion chopped
- ¼ cup Tomato chopped
- 2 tablespoons Cucumber chopped
- 2 tablespoons Capsicum (Green bell pepper) chopped
- 1 tablespoon Cilantro or coriander leaves chopped finely
- 2 teaspoons Mint leaves chopped
- 1 small Green chili chopped finely
Instructions
- Take yogurt in a bowl. Add salt, black salt, red chili powder and roasted cumin powder to the yogurt.
- Whisk until yogurt is smooth and spices are evenly mixed.
- Add chopped veggies (onion, tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, green chili), cilantro and mint leaves.
- Mix everything well and serve right away.
Notes
- Always use chilled, refrigerated yogurt, as raita tastes best when served chilled.
- Storing this vegetable raita is not advisable. The onion has a sharp flavor and after storing the refrigerator it starts to smell. Plus, veggies will leave their water after storing and it makes the raita watery and runny. Plus, veggies will lose their crunch and freshness.
- If you do not care for consistency or the crunchiness of the veggies then raita can be stored for 1-2 days in the refrigerator.
- Make ahead option: If you want to make it ahead of time for guests or parties then mix the spices with yogurt and store that in an airtight container. Chop and mix the veggies and store that separately in the fridge. At the time of serving, mix both and serve.
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