Sunday, October 24, 2010

Aloo Raita

Raita is a condiment based on yogurt (dahi) and , can be prepared with various ingredients (mint,aloo,bondi,cucumber) according to the main course .The mixture is served chilled. Raita may cool the palate when eating spicy dishes.

 

Everyone loves to eat aloo fry but often eating fry food is not good for health so here is a recipe aloo lovers.This can be served with Biryani , parata, roti according to your taste.Kids commonly call it as white sauce . Trust me you'll love this recipe.

 

This recipe serves 3-4 persons.

Ingredients:
Potato - 1
Onion -1/2
Green Chili - 1
Garam masala - 1/2tsp
Curd - 2cups
Salt - According to taste
Cilantro/Coriander - 2tsp

For Tadka/Tempering:
Oil - 1tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
Jeera/Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method:
1.Boil and peel the potato .
2.Take a bowl and mash or slice potato into small pieces.
3.Add curd ,finely chopped onions,mirchi,cilantro,salt,garam masala and mix it well.
4.Take a pan heat oil add jeera & mustard seeds saute for 1 min and switch of the stove.
5.Add the tadka to curd mixture & mix it well.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Aloo raita is very new recipe to know, shall try it next time i make briyani, thanks for stopping by my blog and for you kind words of appreciation. I see you are very new to blog world so here goes a very big warm welcome Smitha, am trying to follow ur blog for some wired reasons they don't seems to work shall again tomorrow :)

Tahemeem said...

hey chala baagunde page anta kooda.. super

Smitha said...

Thanks a lot Ananda & Tahemeem for your comments.
@Ananda trust me you'll love this Aloo raita let me know your experience after trying it .
@Tahemeem for the page designing and stuff thanks to shirish he did it for me .

deepak said...

this is something interesting... will try....

jyotsna said...

hey smithu,

finally comments section add chesinanduku thanks.. nee blog layut simply superb and title in french language kuda chala bagundi.. manchi manchi recipes ee kadu chala useful info post chestunnav like nutritional values, cooking time etc..

one small suggetsion US tea spoons mana tea spoons tho differ avthai.. so nuvve use chese US measurements mida kuda oka blog post cheyyi.. like 1 cup ante 200 ml ala.. that will be helpful to freshers in cooking..

Smitha said...

I'm very sorry dear I responded to you in gtalk and completely forgot about that . Thanks for appreciating the recipes and also for giving suggestions.Well I also have the plan of posting in detail about the measurements , will do it soon.

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