Cucumber Tomato Raita

Cucumber Tomato Raita Recipe - Learn how to make this yogurt-based accompaniment using vegetables like cucumber & tomato in just 10 minutes.

It helps in balancing the flavors in biryani or pulao and goes well with paratha, curries, or vegetable dishes.

Consuming yogurt is very healthy as it helps in cooling and digestion. Raita is often prepared in the summertime and a kind of Indian salad of yogurt & vegetables.

A great side dish for peas pulao, biryani, OR paratha recipes like ajwain paratha, chana dal paratha, or Zucchini paratha,

It also makes a great accompaniment with aloo gobi ki sabji, aloo matar, and aloo gobi with methi leaves.

What is raita- Raita is nothing but a yogurt-based dip or side dish. Using yogurt as a base and vegetables like carrot, bottlegourd, potato, capsicum, beetroot, cucumber, onion & tomato, Indian raita is so flavorful.

Tomato and cucumber raita is so quick and easy to make.

Why you will love this recipe

Indian raitas make a perfect side dish especially with spicy meals to balance the spiciness. This raita is so easy to make with pantry available ingredients.

This raita is

• easy & quick to prepare
• needs only 5 ingredients
• paired well any meals especially rice recipes
• light on stomach
• helps in cooling in summer
• curing digestive issues

You can make any vegetable Indian raita if you have a basic raita recipe. Having said that my go-to basic raita recipe is very simple, 1 cup thick curd or Greek yogurt, ½ cup water, ½ teaspoon roasted cumin powder, and salt as per taste.

Just add any vegetable and sprinkle roasted cumin powder or chat masala as per your taste. Raita adds a variety of meal planning. Check here some more raita recipes for biryani.

Ingredients

Please refer recipe card with all measurements of the ingredients.

• Curd or Yogurt- You can use plain curd for this recipe. I am using greek yogurt to make raita. You can make it with homemade curd as well.
• Spices- salt as per taste and roasted cumin seed powder. Do not skip roasted cumin seed powder, it makes yogurt so flavorful.
• Vegetables- chopped cucumber, chopped tomato. I am using an English cucumber in this recipe.
• Chili- green chili chopped finely (optional)
• Garnishing- chopped green coriander

How to make cucumber tomato raita

Vegetable raitas are quick to make. Just add everything in a mixing bowl and adjust spices. That's all you need to do.

1. First of all, whisk the yogurt and water in a mixing bowl. This will make yogurt creamy and smooth.
2. Now add chopped tomato, cucumber, roasted cumin powder, and salt as per taste.
3. Mix everything together and keep it in the fridge for 30 min.
4. Garnish with green coriander before serving.

Variations

This is the simplest raita where you can easily do modification by adding or eliminating any ingredient.

1. Cucumber Raita- Just use cucumber only to make creamy cucumber raita.
2. Tomato raita- Using only tomato leads to lip-smacking tomato raita.
3. Tomato onion cucumber raita- Add ½ cup of sliced onion to make another variation of yummy raita.
4. Onion Raita- Just replace cucumber & tomato with sliced onion to make onion raita.

Serving suggestions

Yogurt or curd tastes great when chilled. Always keep raita in the fridge minimum for 30 min before serving.

This is best while serving with rice-based dishes like biryani and peas pulao(mater pulao).

Cucumber and tomato raita goes well with achari dahi bhindi (pickled okra with curd), Malabar parotta, Mint Paratha, achari besan paratha, & methi chi bhaji (yellow lentil with fenugreek leaves).

Having said that pairing with stuff parathas like chana dal paratha, ajwain paratha, or zucchini flatbread also goes well. You can check the Indian Paratha recipes here.

Storing suggestions

How you can store raita depend on the duration. Normally kept for 30 min before serving, but you can keep it for 24 hrs in the fridge.

• Fridge: you can store in the fridge for 24 hours. However not recommended. Tomato spoils the taste if kept for a longer duration. But otherwise, you can always make ahead, and keep in the fridge without adding salt.
• Refrigerate: Raita recipes are not for freezing.

Tips & FAQ's

Being the simplest version of raita, still there are few things to take care of.

• Use thick curd or greek yogurt to make creamy raita.
• Adjust thickness by adding water.
• If the curd is sour then replace water with the same amount of milk.
• Use seedless cucumber. If not available then feel free to remove seeds from any available variety, if any.
• Deseed tomato before adding in raita.
• Serve chilled and fresh to get the best flavors of cucumber & tomato.

In India, raita is one of the quick side dishes which goes very well with roti or paratha recipes and with rice one-pot meals. See below some more raita recipes.

• Mango Raita
• Boondi raita
• Potato Raita
• Apple raita
• Bottlegourd raita
• Carrot raita

You can also check Indian bread recipes and choose which to make along with this yummy raita.

There are some more from curry recipes which you can make.

Also check how to make homemade yogurt & homemade ground cumin.

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