Serving meal is an art that can make your dishes appetizing and more appealing or just make it regretted. Raita and salads are the essential part of daily meals. It enhance the taste of food and make add more colors in your Servings. In Pakistan, there are so many different type of raitas and Salad, which can be found in almost every hotels and restaurants menu. Most common raitas are Pudina raita, Zeera raita, Dhaniya raita, Cucumber raita, Masala raita and so on.
Basic purpose of adding raita in meal, is balancing the nutrition of meal. Yogurt which is the main ingredient of raita is used to reduce the hotness level of food. Some people can’t eat rich spicy food because of their sensitive digestive system. Raita is used to level the hotness of chilies that produce a burning sensation in stomach, on the skin and mucous membranes, including the inside of the mouth.
Here are the Recipes of Raitas:
Zeera raita is used with much spicy food s there is nothing in it except of cumin seeds. Mostly it is served with Punjabi and Sindhi foods like Biryanies, Tehri, Raosted meat & Broast, Stakes etc.
Yogurt – 125 gm
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Salt – according to taste
Podina raita has a cooling effect in meal. it is served with spicy food like Pulao, Tikka & kababs and samosas.
Yogurt – 125 gm
Mint Leaves – 1/8 cup
Green Chilies (medium) – 2
Salt – according to taste
Masala raita is used to make food a little spicy. It is served with Pulao, Seekh Kababs and samosas.
Yogurt – 125 gm
Chaat Masala – 1 tsp / according to taste
Salt – according to taste
Cucumber raita is used to balance the hot sensation of food. it is served with extra spicy food like Biryanies, Tikka & Roasts, Korma/Qorma and Bhunna ghost etc.
Yogurt – 125 gm
Cucumbers (Medium)- 2 (fine chopped)
Roasted cumin seeds powder – 1/6 tsp
Salt – according to taste
Salad raita can be served with all type of dishes like Biryanies, Korma/Qorma and Bhunna ghost etc.
Yogurt – 125 gm
Cucumbers (Small) – 1
Tomato (Small) – 1
Onion (Small) – 1
Capsicum (small) – 1/2
Roasted cumin seeds powder – 1/6 tsp
Salt – according to taste
P.S: Dhaniya raita is same as Podina Raita. Use Coriander leaves except of Mint leaves in it.
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