Cucumber Raita

Cucumber and yogurt Raita

It's very cool and delicious. It would be best if taken in hot, humid weather or with a spicy dish.

Ingredients: Cucumber-500 gm, homemade yogurt-250 gms, onion-1 large, salt to taste, mustard seed-1 teaspoon, white oil-1 teaspoon.

Method: Grate cucumber and onion together, mix them well. Add some salt to this mixture and keep it in refrigerator. After one hour, take it out and discard all the water the mixture produces. Wash the mixture in cold water and keep again in refrigerator. Before serving the raita (salad), add chilled yougurt to it, add more salt if needed. Now put a bowl on flame, add the oil and when it is hot, put the mustard seed into this. Now put this oil with all those seeds to your raita, mix well and serve immediately.

Note: You can add small pieces of tomatoes, Capcicums (green chillies) or other vegetables with this raita also. All would go fine.